"I understood then that I was a political animal, not a social columnist! At the origin of all artistic creation, there has to be an emotion. Very often, with me, it is political."
Bernard Rancillac is a French artist, painter, and sculptor. After experimenting with abstraction, Bernard Rancillac reintroduced color and figuration to his paintings in the sixties as part of Narrative Figuration. Under the guise of an aesthetic figuration inspired by comics, Bernard Rancillac takes a sharp look at the images of his time. In his work, the artist places contemporary society and its images (advertising, comics, current-affairs images, etc.) at the heart of his works. Politically and socially enagaged, the artist seeks to transcribe with biting humor the urban reality and the current events of the world, by rhythmic canvases with effective figures and bright colors.