PASCAL BERNIER (né en 1960) Lot n° 42

Elephant hunting accident, 2009 Artist proof in casted resin, bandage, acrylic Artist proof in casted resin, bandage, acrylic 258 x 140 x 85 cm 101 37⁄64 x 55 1⁄8 x 33 15⁄32 in. A certificate of authenticity written by the artist, dated June 2021, will be given to the purchaser. PROVENANCE Private collection, Paris region. PASCAL BERNIER (born in 1960) Born in 1960, Pascal Bernier lives and works in Brussels, his home town. Adept of paradoxical thinking, his work is an opposition between death and life, conservation and destruction but also horror and beauty. It is with a shifted side and not without humour, that he questions his contemporary time and draws the portrait of a disenchanted world. He firmly believes in and defends the "purging through laughter" which "helps to reflect and avoid depression". He is best known for his Accidents de chasse; mortally wounded animals, naturalized, whose wounds have been carefully bandaged by the artist. By this symbolic and redemptive gesture, he saves them from a second death. The two works we present today are from this iconic series. Pascal Bernier is represented in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. Several museums have devoted a retrospective to him, notably the MAC'S Musée du Grand Hornu and the Musée du Botanique in Brussels.