Fine Arts Gallery Presents French Painter Michel Bizet’s “Suites”

Fine Arts Gallery Presents French Painter Michel Bizet’s “Suites”
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, 05/01/2011

The National Gallery of Fine Arts inaugurated the exhibition of “Suites” by French Master Michel Bizet. The event was celebrated with a cocktail party attended by the French Ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Roland Dubertrand and the Director of the Fine Arts Gallery, Marianne de Tolentino, among others.

The paintings are on display at the Palace of Fine Arts where the walls will be covered with the French painter’s work until May 22nd.

The paintings are on display at the Palace of Fine Arts where the walls will be covered with the French painter’s work until May 22nd.

Speaking at the opening event, Marianne de Tolentino, stressed that “Suites”   represents the relationship between Bizet and the American abstract expressionist movement which is distinguished by a desire to transmit strong emotions through the sensuous features of painting.

His work is full of spirituality and emotion. The confidence of his brush leaves the mark of authenticity and commitment to his character and personal beliefs.

The persistence of his work is nothing less than a desire to transmit something that contributes to the preservation of the environment, solidarity and fraternal artistic movements, said Ms. Tolentino.

When Bizet himself spoke, he said he is going through a very spiritual time in his life. “I can say that I am now ready because this is the first time in my life that I feel free…the painting is a very serious matter and I feel that if I am responding to an uncontrollable need to draw and paint.”

Michel Bizet has shown his work in the Casas Reales Museum, the French Embassy, the Dominican Quinta, Musa Restaurant and now at the National Gallery of Fine Arts.

Michel Bizet was born in a town called Jallieu near Lyón, France on September 26, 1941. He did his early liberal arts studies in Lyón, where he practiced landscape and still life drawing intensely between the ages of 12 and 17.  Later, in Paris he was an antiques dealer and worked in fashion, collaborating with big designers, models and famous artists such as film stars Elsa Martinelli and Odile Rodin.

The major influence in Bizet’s paintings was his friend Pierre Jacquemon (1936-2002), a mystical artist and exceptionally skilled in sketching; he was known as a representative of the French informalism movement and one of the maximum exponents of experimentation with the textures of material in contemporary European painting.

Michel Bizet visited the Dominican Republic for the first time in 1995. The following year he set up shop in Las Terrenas, Samaná, where he built and developed the commercial plazas of Casa Linda, Plaza Taína and other important tourism projects. He currently resides in Santo Domingo where he is completely dedicated to his artistic work.