The Montpellier artist, passionate about animals, was invited by the Popular Art Movement (MAP). He presents his shimmering works until February 7, on the second floor of Maison Relin, in Béziers.
Until February 7, the Popular Art Movement (MAP), whose premises are located on the second floor of the Maison Relin, in Béziers, is hosting a whole menagerie created by the painter and designer Christophe Bicharel. “We do five exhibitions a year, including the Salon du Dessin in March”explains Danièle Ginot, president of the MAP. “We met Christophe at one of these shows”.
Since then, the Montpellier artist has been invited several times by the Béziers association. Invitations to which he always responds with pleasure. With 25 years of experience, he teaches visual arts to children and adults, and participates in various projects. His personal creations mainly revolve around his great passion, animals with fur, scales or feathers. “When I was a child, I wanted to pursue a career caring for animals,” says Christophe Bicharel. “But it was a time when parents decided for us. So I studied Fine Arts. I was able to return to my passion for animals by making them the subject of my works”.
“A Bic artist”
To find models, he relies on photographs, which he often takes himself. During his travels, he captured the rhinoceroses of Tanzania, the chamois of the Alps, the turtles of the Dominican Republic. But he can also find subjects five minutes from home, at the Lunaret zoo. Although he sometimes creates large canvases in acrylic and oil, his favorite technique is the ballpoint pen. “I am what we call a Bic artist. I draw with a fine-point ballpoint pen, coloring point by point. It takes me about fifteen hours per work”.
The opening took place on Saturday January 25. Christophe Spina, municipal councilor responsible for culture, welcomed “works full of love and color, which warm the heart in this rather complicated world”.
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