Exhibitions since 1982, mainly in France and Belgium, but also in Ireland and South America (permanent installation in Peru). The artist has been awarded with several prizes: in 1974 « Prix de la Ville » of Toulouse, in 1977 the « Prix de gravure » of Angoulême and in 2001 the « Prix du Duc et de la Duchesse » of Valverde d’Ayala Valva in Monaco.
Works from Bernhard Pras at the Giardino
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Bernhard Pras
Inventaire
(woman and child)
2008
plastic, ceramic, »Ape«
Bernard Pras likes to be termed a »modern Arcimboldo«. His relief-like installations made from all sorts of different materials and objects form portraits or images taken from art history. A pictorial illusion emerges, which, however, immediately dissolves into banal, familiar elements upon closer inspection. This new sculpture in the »Giardino« includes shoe trees, plates, metal panels, spades, arranged on the loading platform of a Piaggio »Ape«.