{"id":10399,"date":"2021-07-02T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=10399"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:53:02","slug":"objectal","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/objectal\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objectal is a group of two artists: Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny. These two artists studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where they met in 1965.\u00a0It was then after many joint projects that Objectal was created in 1976.\u00a0As you will see, there is a bowl in each of their works.\u00a0This bowl is not a coincidence and is an integral part of their touch.\u00a0The bowl is the icon of an everyday object present in almost all their works.\u00a0He is both an integral part of the painting in figuration, as well as in abstraction since 1978.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>QUOTE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>What to do with a collection?\u00a0Pursue it to infinity?\u00a0Better use it as a support, pretext, figure, subject\u2026 Since 1978, the Objectal group (Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny) has combined the bowl in all its states, its approaches, its historical, geographical, decorative, allegorical and mythical variants.\u00a0The bowl as object of analysis and vector of synthesis.\u00a0Objectal thus associates the desire of the object and the object of desire.\u00a0In turn and simultaneously, sociologists, historians, directors, artisans, creators, humorists, linguists, archaeologists, semiologists, Dreyfuss and Pougny always remain radically painters.\u00a0They practice, with full hands (four in total), a two-headed painting that takes hold of the bowl to make it an object of iconographic studies.\u00a0The collection becomes a repertoire, a reservoir, a library, an inventory and inexhaustible collection.\u00a0Henceforth \u00abthe porcelain bowl without handles\u00bb, in the infinity of its declinations, disappears to better discover itself in its very plasticity.\u00a0The bowl becomes, thanks to Objectal, the paradigm of a total art!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Robert Bonaccorsi<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectal is a group of two artists: Bernard Dreyfuss and Claude Pougny. These two artists studied at the National School of Fine Arts, where they met in 1965.\u00a0It was then after many joint projects that Objectal was created in 1976.\u00a0As you will see, there is a bowl in each of their works.\u00a0This bowl is not a coincidence and is an integral part of their touch.\u00a0The bowl is the icon of an everyday object present in almost all their works.\u00a0He is both an integral part of the painting in figuration, as well as in abstraction since 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10387,"template":"","artist_cat":[24],"class_list":["post-10399","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-painter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}