SECTION EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE WORLD – JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET: SUCCESSO EVIDENTE (HIDDEN TRACKS)
Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present ‘Successo Evidente (Hidden Tracks)’ Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 16 to March 1, 2025. How do you define success? The perennial question often associated with cheap self-help books and awkward job interviews looms large in the realm of painting. Indeed, not everyone likes to hear that some paintings ‘just happened’ like a lucky snapshot. If seamlessness can fascinate by suggesting painstaking work or the triumph of automation, there is something reassuring about visible traces of labour and frustration people like to know it didn’t come easy. In art, satisfaction is nothing unless you’re testing how little you can do and how bad you can make it, but these transgressions are short-lived.