artist/ Alligand

France

Bernard Alligand is a French painter and printmaker, born in 1953 in Angers (Maine-et-Loire). He lives and works in France and regularly travels abroad.
“Travelling is about discovering new sensations and smells, to nourish my creative work”.
For Bernard Alligand, the landscape is transformed into a vast expanse of harvest: Egypt, Iceland, Japan, Laos, Morocco. His work remains linked to nature, a journey through time and space.
His many travels, including artist residencies in Egypt, Morocco, Iceland, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Asia, are a source of inspiration that he uses in a variety of media: painting, engraving, ceramics, wood and artist’s books.
His multi-disciplinary pictorial work is imbued with all kinds of materials: minerals, plants, manufactured, raw and recycled objects…. which he translates into cosmic and allegorical compositions.
For over 30 years, he has been illustrating artist’s books based on unpublished texts by many contemporary poets. In 2009, a collection of his bibliophilic work was created at the Angers library, housing over a hundred artist’s books with sketches, plates and essays. A conservation collection of his engraved work has been set up at the Bnf’s Dép. des estampes in Paris. The Romain Gary media library in Nice houses all the editions accompanied by sketches, plates and essays, and constitutes the conservation collection for his engraved work.
His work can be found in institutional and private collections, and is exhibited in many countries.