Chris-Ailm BeraetRegistration Maison des Artistes - Paris n° BA44202
Adagp n° 1089190
Member of the Taylor Foundation, Paris
https://www.instagram.com/chris_ailm.beraet/
I place the lines and writing of my poetic texts as a creative element in my compositions.
The writing is often legible because I want it to convey the word, but it can become abstract or take on a wild form to take us "elsewhere’.
The absence of legibility is a necessity, a stance of deconstructing language. This can be interpreted as a response to the almost total omnipresence of communication in our contemporary society.
I oppose the dominant form of text with the deconstructing of the word in my written creations, and of form in my ‘purely’ pictorial creations.
Key Dates
2025_______Over-painting / Glyphs
2024_______Outrecorps 8th Evolution / Writing and Bodily Imprint
2023_______Outrecorps 7th Evolution / Writing and Bodily Imprint
2022_______dentelles de t'air - aerial sculpture
2021_______outrecorps - 6th evolution/ hybrid imprint-writing
2020_______outrecorps - 5th evolution/ hybrid imprint-writing
2016/17___noces_alchimiques - 4th evolution/ bodily imprint
2015_______free_weddings - 3rd evolution/body imprint
2014/17___Berlin period
2012_______on the blank reverse of the void - collection of writing and free verse
2011_______poems without a path - collection of writing and free verse
2011/15___auditor at ÉMAP Villa Thiole, Nice
2010_______words emanating from an inked path - collection of writing and ink paintings
2009_______ArtD C. Geai workshop / Mural and Trompe l’oeil
2008_______moi-peau-d'encre - body 2nd evolution / body imprint
2006/07____“poetic abstraction” period
2005_______body-bed-door - body 1st evolution / body imprint
2005_______first engraving (drypoint)
2005_______creation of the first poetic circle (orbigram)
2004/05___studio assistant at the MAMAC art studio in Nice
2004_______glyphs (2nd series)
2003_______will-o'-the-wisps - imprints/ sketchbook-pictograms
2002_______glyphs (1st series)
1995_______introduction to Chinese writing and painting in the “Xieyi” style
1980/82____family introduction to medieval European calligraphy: Irish semi-uncial
1973/74____school instruction in ink and pen writing (Elementary School)
1968_______born in Nice
The writing is often legible because I want it to convey the word, but it can become abstract or take on a wild form to take us "elsewhere’.
The absence of legibility is a necessity, a stance of deconstructing language. This can be interpreted as a response to the almost total omnipresence of communication in our contemporary society.
I oppose the dominant form of text with the deconstructing of the word in my written creations, and of form in my ‘purely’ pictorial creations.
Key Dates
2025_______Over-painting / Glyphs
2024_______Outrecorps 8th Evolution / Writing and Bodily Imprint
2023_______Outrecorps 7th Evolution / Writing and Bodily Imprint
2022_______dentelles de t'air - aerial sculpture
2021_______outrecorps - 6th evolution/ hybrid imprint-writing
2020_______outrecorps - 5th evolution/ hybrid imprint-writing
2016/17___noces_alchimiques - 4th evolution/ bodily imprint
2015_______free_weddings - 3rd evolution/body imprint
2014/17___Berlin period
2012_______on the blank reverse of the void - collection of writing and free verse
2011_______poems without a path - collection of writing and free verse
2011/15___auditor at ÉMAP Villa Thiole, Nice
2010_______words emanating from an inked path - collection of writing and ink paintings
2009_______ArtD C. Geai workshop / Mural and Trompe l’oeil
2008_______moi-peau-d'encre - body 2nd evolution / body imprint
2006/07____“poetic abstraction” period
2005_______body-bed-door - body 1st evolution / body imprint
2005_______first engraving (drypoint)
2005_______creation of the first poetic circle (orbigram)
2004/05___studio assistant at the MAMAC art studio in Nice
2004_______glyphs (2nd series)
2003_______will-o'-the-wisps - imprints/ sketchbook-pictograms
2002_______glyphs (1st series)
1995_______introduction to Chinese writing and painting in the “Xieyi” style
1980/82____family introduction to medieval European calligraphy: Irish semi-uncial
1973/74____school instruction in ink and pen writing (Elementary School)
1968_______born in Nice
PUBLICATIONS
2026 currently being edited : Vers blanc (white verso) - Poems - Watercolors - Calligraphy
2012 Au verso blanc du vide (on the white verso of emptiness) - Poems - Calligraphy
2011 Poèmes sans chemin (poems without a path) - Poems - Calligraphy
2010 Propos émanés d'un chemin encré (words emanating from an inked path) - Poems - Ink paintings
PUBLIC COLLECTION
La Coopérative - Musée Cérès Franco, Montolieu, France
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Keith Overton Collection, London, Great Britain
Michaël K. Berlin Collection, Germany
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2020_Jean-Vincent Darasse Prize - Taylor Foundation, Paris
2020_ADAGP Prize - Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l'Eau, Paris
2018_Nicolas Cizeron Prize, Société des Artistes-Français, Grand Palais, Paris
2015_Bronze Medal, Société des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris
2015_Aiap-Unesco-Monaco Jury Prize
2015_Monaco National Commission Prize, Monaco