Bertrand Créac’h
Born in France in November 1947, Bertrand Créac’h trained at the École Boulle in Paris. Since 1976, he has lived and worked in the Oise region until he passed away in 2022. At the beginning of his artistic journey, he met artists Étienne Martin, François Stahly, and Michel Seuphor, who supported him in his sculptural exploration. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad, including Brussels, London, Madrid, the Trutnov Museum (Czech Republic), Galerie Bianca Landgraaf in Laren (Netherlands), and Artfair Den Bosch (Netherlands), among others.
In 1995, he created a tactile installation for the Children’s Workshop of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, in relation to the Brancusi exhibition. The museum invited him again to contribute to the development of an educational suitcase on “touch” and to record a cassette titled “Sounds.” His work has been shown in several museums in the Oise region: the Cloister of the former Hôtel-Dieu and the Noyonnais Museum in Noyon, and Saint Pierre des Minimes in Compiègne. He is represented in the collections of the Beauvais Museum with the sculpture Braga (a tribute to the Tibetan people) and a set of tactile sculptures created in 2000, titled Please Touch.
His sculptures and bas-reliefs are reminiscences of long stays on the island of Ouessant, where the artist sketched the island’s “fantastic” rocks, standing like sentinels facing the ocean. The refuges and mountains evoke places of retreat and monastic reflection, grounded in the world through striking plays of mass and light. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe, and several of his pieces are displayed in museums and adorn public spaces in France.
