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Hans Bouman (born in 1951) is a Dutch visual artist working in painting, sculpture, etching and video. He settled in Paris in 1980.




Life and career


Hans Bouman grew up in Haarlem, Netherlands, and earned his degrees at the Graphics School and at the Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam in 1978.
After settling in Paris in 1980, he received the Painting Prize at the Salon de Montrouge in 1985, when he became a well-known and successful visual artist. Along the years, art critics Alin Avila, Gérard Barrière, Gérard-Georges Lemaire, as well as novelist Daniel Picouly wrote the prefaces to the catalogues of his one-man shows.
During his career, Bouman's works have grown in a series of interconnected cycles.
His hieratic heads carved in the thickness and density of the layers of paint recalled the Moai of Easter Island, the African masks or the dramatic elongations of Expressionnism. « The magic of Bouman lies in the play on pictorial matter and his capacity to make a forceful figure emerge from it, both literally and figuratively" Henri-François Debailleux wrote at the time.
In a subsequent series, a whole pantheon of gods and goddesses was born from his imagination: Årantaleph, Olafdir, Kratikoff, Mandi Tan...
He has always used photography, for instance in a series dedicated to the bunkers stranded on the beaches of the North Sea. With the development of digital photography, he merged drawing, painting and etching with the many possibilities offered by new technologies.
Travelling has always been part and parcel of his artistic approach. During his stays in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso and Foumban in Cameroon, together with local traditional bronze casters he created a series of bronze lost-wax sculptures.
In 2014, he created a monumental sculpture for the Par't Sino-français in Shunde near Canton, Guangdong, that marked the anniversary of the 50 years of diplomatic relationships between France and China.
When he was invited as an artist in residence by the ADEFC created by novelist Ya Ding in 2017 et 2018, Hans Bouman's work took on a new direction, inspired by the astounding landscapes of Guangxi and Hubei provinces.
Hans Bouman is also the author of experimental films (The meanders of black, A Dream based on Franz Kafka's short story) and video portraits of his artist friends: Painters in Longzhou, Christine Jean, Serge Plagnol, Fred Kleinberg, Zwy Milshtein, Bernard Ollier, Sophie Sainrapt, Albert Hirsch...
Hans Bouman also works in his new studio in the countryside in the Loiret, where his recent work is permeated by the natural elements that surround him.




Selected 0ne-man shows


2023 Family Affairs #8, Galerie Area, Paris, avec Margreet Bouman et Ronald Ruseler
2022 Corps & Esprit III, IF-Grenier à sel, Châtillon-Coligny
2022 Lignes de Mire, Galerie Area , Paris
2020 Nature du regard, IF-Grenier à sel, Châtillon-Coligny
2018 Je peins, donc tu es, Orangerie du Sénat, galerie Area, Paris
2015 Loin des images et du bruit, Galerie Univer / Colette Colla, Paris
2014 Le Concours des torses, Galerie Vanuxem, Paris
2012 Body and Soul II, Pink Gallery, Seoul, South Korea,
2012 Body and Soul I, Kunstdoc, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Corps et Esprit II, Espace Saint-Louis, Bar-le-Duc
2011 Têtes à tête, La Serre, Saint-Étienne
2010 En corps, La Réserve d'area, Paris
2008 Têtes ardentes, La Réserve d'area, Paris, catalogue
2008 Corps et esprit, Centre d'art contemporain Raymond Farbos, Mont-de-Marsan
2007 Suaire de soi, La Réserve d'area, Paris
2005 Labyrinthe, avec S. Galazzo, F. Haddad et S. Sainrapt, L'Entrepôt, Paris
2004 10 ans de peinture, Galerie Le Confort des Étranges, Toulouse
2001 Galerie Art Déco, Antananarivo
2000 Galerie Koralewski, Paris
1999 Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg
1997 Au pays Lobi avec Bertrand Rieger, espace Paul Ricard, Paris,
1997 Centre culturel Albert Camus, Antananarivo, Madagascar
1996 Œuvres récentes, Studio Kostel, Paris, Œuvres sur papier, galerie Vanuxem, Paris, Parcours 1985/1996, galerie Kiron, Paris
1995 Galerie Westlund, Stockholm, Galerie Vanuxem, Paris
1993 Traits de caractère, Chapelle de l'hôtel de ville, Vesoul
1993 Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg
1993 Galerie Vanuxem, Paris
1992 Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg,
1992 Sculptures, galerie Koralewski, Paris
1990 Studio Kostel, Paris
1990 Galerie Vanuxem, Paris
1990 Galerie La Cour 21, Nantes
1987 Galleria M.R., Rome
1987 Galerie Nicole Ferry, Paris
1986 Galerie Flora, Espace Kiron, Paris
1985 Galerie Jean-Claude David, Grenoble




Books


2021 Family affairs #6, 3 paper works with M. Bouman & R. Ruseler
2020 Haarlem en ik, leporello, collection Museum Haarlem
2018 Le Corps derrière le corps, text by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Piver publisher
2018 CommeUn n°17, text by Daniel Picouly with A. Inumaru et N. Gaulier, Area Paris, Alin Avila publisher
2016 CommeUn n° 7, text by Alain Pizerra with B. Guarrigues et B. Pingeot, Area Paris, Alin Avila publisher
2014 Le Concours des torses, text by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Piver publisher
2013 Face-A-Face, a photographic dialogue in South Korea, Piver publisher
2012 Body & Soul, Paris & Seoul,Piver publisher
2005 Sextus, text by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Area Paris publisher
1998 From Bobo to Ouaga, text by Hans Bouman & Tony Soulié, Yeo publisher for Area Paris
1998 Family Affairs, with M. Bouman & R. Ruseler, text by I. Lanz & D. Cunin, M.Bouman publisher (ISBN 9080360821)
1997 Chemins croisés en Pays Lobi, texts by G. Barrière, C. Barbier, H. Bouman, M.-C. Guyot, F. Le Graverend & B. Rieger, Espace Paul Ricard & Polaroid
1996 Voici moi, poem by Tadeusz Koralewski, illustrated by Hans Bouman, Area Paris, Alin Avila publisher
1993 Têtes, a drawing notebook, Yeo for Area Paris, Alin Avila publisher
1993 Visages, text by Gérard Barrière, galerie Vanuxem publisher, Paris




Collections


Guangzhou FengLe Medical Technology Co, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Chine
Museum Haarlem, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
International Art Centre, Shangjin, Hubei, Chine
International Museum, Longzhou, Guangxi, Chine
P’art sino-français, Shunde, Guangdong, Chine
BNP Paribas, Paris
Ars Aevi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Musée de Toulon, donation Alin Avila




Selected articles


Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Dans l'atelier de Hans Bouman, Verso-hebdo, 2021
Vitorio E. Pisu, Hans Bouman. Nature du regard, Palazzi a Venezia n° 9, septembre 2020
Alin Avila, Je peins, donc tu es, area revue n° 34, printemps 2018
Hassouna Mosbahi, Un peintre hollandais à Paris, elaph.com, 30 mars 2017
Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Body and Soul, Culture Ocean, mars-avril 2013
Chistophe Averty, Les âmes silencieuses, Artension n° 112, 2013
Gérard Férou, L’Afrique fantôme d'Hans Bouman, Les Lettres françaises, octobre 2007
Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Hans Bouman , Santé mentale, no 167, 2012
Henri-François Debailleux, Hans Bouman en têtes, Libération, 29 novembre 1996
Françoise Monnin, Le double visage d'Hans Bouman, Muséart, no 55, novembre 1995




Bibliography


Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Le Noir absolu et les Leçons de ténèbres, Hémisud, 2009
Daniel Picouly et Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Têtes ardentes, Éditions Area, 2008
Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Labyrinthe, 2004
Alin Avila, Totems de silence: Hans Bouman, 1996, Yeo éditeur pour Area, Paris (EAN 265–0006469745)
Gérard Barrière, Traits de caractères, 1993
Henri-François Debailleux, Hans Bouman, Galerie Vanuxem éditeur, Paris, 1990
Gérard Barrière, Hans le tenace, Paris, 1987
Henri-François Debailleux et Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Hans Bouman, Grenoble, 1985
Alin Avila, L'Éloge de la peinture,




References






External links


www.hansbouman.com

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