Frédéric Bargeon

Fred Bargeon paints and lives in a nomadic lifestyle

He was born in 1974 in Toulouse, France, in a family from Catalogna. His grandfather, Lucien Bargeon, was a famous actor.

In 1981, he moves with his mother to the Pyrenees mountains. He spends several years in a countryside commune. From this time on he develops a very deep bond to nature.

He comes back to Toulouse in 1986 where he lives with his father and starts an urban life, in complete opposition to his former life in the countryside.

With his human experiences and by pure chance he becomes a social worker in Toulouse then Paris.
Through his work he finds out that adults’ and children’s lives can be tourmented and devastating. He feels incredibly moved by what he sees.

He is totally invested in this works until in the early 2000 and randomly again he turns to publishing.

All these different experiences give him an accute sense of empathy and compassion.

This is when he discovers that he has inherited the gift of healing from his father’s family. This gift leads him to developing the use of canvas and brushes and expressing himself through painting. In 2012 he produces his first painting. From there on he becomes a full time painter.

His abstract pain...

Colors in Motion by Bargeon

Sensuality is the engine of his creation. He takes it apart and lays it down on a canvas. It’s like writing with pigments, instead of words, using their multiple shades. He experiments in many different ways following his intuitions and state of mind. He loves testing new and different surfaces, materials and tools. He is focused on achieving perfect balance between precision and chance. His work can be underlined by texts. His texts are short or dense. They don’t try to explain it or give a clue about it. They tell another story, another possible reality, where a sentence or a word can converge with the abstract story line of his painting.
As a self educated man, Fred Bargeon has been influenced, among others, by Basquiat, Pollock, Nicolas de Staël, Fabienne Verdier, Kandinsky, Rothko. He gets his inspiration from literature, music and dance such as Bill T.Jones, Isadora Duncan. He also gets inspiration from his genuine and deep emotions and feelings about life. Painting is an act of freedom and release.
It’s a political act regarding our society full of limitations and dogmas. But his hope comes from a diverse and multicultural world with a better understanding of differences. His work finds its ...

11/26/2015 : exhibition « Colors in motion » at Forum JE, IGS Group, Paris 10

10 and 11 / 2015 : « Tableau en Live » at Air France in Roissy- Conference by the artist on 11/5/2015

07/27/2015 : exhibition about the roots of culinary art and « Colors in Motion » at « Enso de Marichott » in Ségalas, France

04/01/2015-05/30/2015 : « Hundred centimeters square» exhibition at the Médiathèque of Pamiers , France

12/13/2014 – 02/22/2015 : group exhibition, 3rd edition of « Hundred centimeters square « at Galerie du Philosophe in Carla Bayle, France,

07/12-09/15/2014 : « Colors in motion » at Domaine de Terrac in Rimont, France,

12/10-12/15/2013 : ephemeral exhibition at Espace Tout’Art in Paris 14

10/5 and 6/2013 : 12 th exhibition of « l’Art s’invite » in Magrie, France

05/2013-01/2014 : exhibition at Galerie Obre Enéa in Anglet, France

03/12 – 04/20/2013 : Group exhibition « Big size » at Galerie Lulu Mirettes in Toulouse, France