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Clara Bergel

French artist born in 1963. Clara's professional career began in the 80's,when a group of friends asked her to give them painting lessons. This teachingexperience opened her to the world and she decided at last to unveil her worksto the public. "I had liberated myself of my fears, of my fear of the gaze ofothers; I started with the mixed technique that allowed me to express all theenergy that burst out of me." After several exhibitions in France, she decidedto discover the world and she began to exhibit in the United States and Europe,much to the public's satisfaction. "Fragment of Interior" is a series ofportraits of the armchair, furniture which becomes the reflection of apersonality.

We seek ourselves through our interior, according to Clara, "show me yourarmchair, I would say to you who you are". The texture of the paintings gives anew 3 dimensional feel to the art. You can not only see the painting, but alsotouch it, be in fusion with it. Clara is generous with her and wants to offer apart of her in each painting. She wants to give you a taste of each person andillustrate a part of every story that she has lived in her life. Her art existsto be shared, and Clara cannot imagine painting for herself.

Her motivation is her desire to always be in contact with people, to take theenergy from these meetings and then use it in her painting. Clara does not wantone to think that a chair is just a chair. She does not wish for one to considertheir environment so simplistically. "There is a life inside everything," shesays, and she has chosen the chair as her subject to express this concept.Clara's painting is her way to capture all the energy that bursts out of her.She puts many materials in the paintings: varnishing, glass, paper of gold,plaster, resin, acrylic, oil, pastel...it gives life to her painting.

In the last few years she has exhibited in International art fairs in NewYork, Paris, Toronto, Milan, and Geneva. 

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