About Bernard Lamarche-Vadel
Lived 1949 – 2000 (aged 50). Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a French writer, poet, art critic, photographer, collector and novelist.
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel (16 July 1949, Avallon. – 2 May 2000, La Croixille in Mayenne) was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.
Life The son of a veterinarian, self-taught, his tastes for art and literature earned him a paternal anathema. At 19 years he met whose name he joined to his. A graduate from the École pratique des hautes études in art sociology (1970), he subsequently taught at the Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and then at ICART in 1979. A poet and short stories writer, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel composed a work of art critic in the 1970s and founded the magazine Artistes. He also organized numerous exhibitions ("Jean Degottex. Rétrospective", 1978, musée d'Art moderne (ARC), Paris / « Finir en beauté », juin 1981 )
He committed suicide in 2000 aged 50, in his castle of La Rongère.
His photographic collection was stored at in Chalon-sur-Saône.
An exhibition devoted to his work of art critic was presented in 2009 by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Works
1976: Michel-Ange, 1976: Du chien les bonbonnes, Bourgois 1978: Degottex, l'œuvre de Jean Degottex et la question du tableau. Musée de Grenoble / Musée d'art et d'industrie, Saint-Étienne 1978: L'Efficacité des rouges, Bourgois 1979: Giacometti 1980: Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Bourgois 1981: Helmut Newton, Regard 1982: Cols de l'accent violent, éditions Unes 1983: Pour Bram Van Velde, éditions Unes 1983: Lisible pour M., éditions Unes 1983: Collection Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers 1984: Château dernier, éditions Unes 1985: Catalogue Maeght n°32 : peintures 1965-1980 1985: Joseph Beuys, Marval 1985: Alberto Giacometti, N.E.F. 1985: Klossowski, l'énoncé dénoncé, Marval 1985: , Action régionale pour la création artistique 1985: Sidérations : l'atelier photographique français. Coedition Tours, Liège, Rome. Centre de Création Contemporaine : Carte Segrete 1985: Tapiès, peinture 1965-1980, Maeght 1986: Opalka, 1965, la Différence 1986: Qu'est-ce que l'art français ?, La Différence 1987: Continent Kirkeby. Centre de création contemporaine de Tours 1987: Pierre Klossowski 1987: Éric Dalbis, La Différence 1987: Hucleux, La Différence 1987: Zoo, Jean-Philippe Reverdot, Marval 1988: Majy Magie, La Différence Points de mire 1988: Mimmo Paladino, le guetteur, La Différence 1988: Olivier Thomé: propos La Différence Unes-Nues, photographs by Jean Rault, texts by Régis Durand and Bernard Lamarche-Vadel 1990: , La Différence 1990: Facile, Marval 1990: Jean-Michel Sanejouand, les charges-objets, La Différence 1990: Villeglé, Marval 1992: Les Espionnes, (collaboration, B. Rheims, G. Kehayoff) - (DEHORS), (collaboration, Yannick Miloux), Rennes, La Criée, 1992, 36 p. 1993: Le Bonheur, (collaboration F. Chevallier), La Différence 1993: Vitré, La Différence 1993: Lewis Baltz, La Différence 1993: Arman [Classiques du XXIe] 1993: Vétérinaires, (Prix Goncourt du premier roman 1994) 1995: Bugatti : les meubles, les sculptures, les autos, (collaboration B. Dufour), La Différence 1995: Carmelo Zagari, La Différence 1995: Tout casse, Gallimard 1995: Lignes de mire : écrits sur la photographie, Marval 1996: La logeuse, (collaboration Y. Guillot), Marval 1997: Entretiens, témoignages, études critiques (dir. I. Rabineau. Méréal) 1997: Sa vie, son œuvre, dedicated to Philippe Sollers 1997: Fos, natures d'un lieu, images en manœuvres 1998: L'art, le suicide, la princesse et son agonie 1999: Comment jouer Enfermement, Christian Bourgois, Paris 1999: Arman, La Différence 2000: De la douce hystérie des bilans, éditions Unes Mise en demeure, (photographs Jean-Philippe Reverdot), his last novel
Filmography Bernard Lamarche-Vadel appareared in L'Argent (1983) by Robert Bresson
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Who was Bernard Lamarche-Vadel?
French poet (1949–2000)
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Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was born on 16 July 1949 in Avallon.
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Bernard Lamarche-Vadel died on 30 April 2000 in La Croixille.
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Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a writer, poet, art critic, photographer, collector and novelist.
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