 Antoine
Bridi (1971)
Biography
of artist painter Antoine Bridi:
Bridi has an
architectural background, lives and works in Canada.
Recently, he
exhibited in San Francisco and Montreal. The artist collected many
rewards and recognitions along his career: diploma of excellence
(Art Addiction Medial Museum – London), gold medal
(Quebec Museum of Masters and Craftsmen – Montreal),
sincere gratitude by the ministry of culture – Latvia.
He also has been elected for exhibition at the Florence Biennial
– Italy.
His talent for drawing manifested itself since his childhood. Throughout
his school days, his abilities were becoming clearly evident especially
in the portraits he made of his instructors. In addition to many
early paintings and experiments, his first professional artistic
undertaking came in 1992 when he took part in painting the Vitrage
of the “Saint Coeur” church in Badaro-Beirut.
Sports is one of his hobbies in which he has excelled during his
youth having earned at the age of 17 a black belt in martial arts.
This noble sport developed his sense of concentration, prioritizing
and control over one’s body, thus reinforcing his clearness of mind
and will-power. He equally admired music and particularly the classical
genre, so he studied the principles of both the Piano and western
chanting. He was later chosen along with a number of his peers in
Germany for a performance conducted by the renowned maestro Dr.
SHNOUR.
Back to visual art, Bridi’s current work on the development of an
artistic theory led him to the conception of a novel technique through
which he has refined the principals of Divisionism on the human
body. Lighting in Bridi’s work never reaches its dominant –white–,
which produces a luminous and chromatic effect on the sense of sight
as the process is being accomplished. The diminished lighting (yellow)
seems to highlight an ecstasy which has not yet reached the threshold
of orgasm. Lighting is no longer conditioned by
the source of the light, but is induced through the composition
of light and sombre zones. It is in this sense that we refer to
the framework composing light and obscurity.
Exhibitions
and rewards
2011
- Exhibition
in the Florence Biennial
2010
- Exhibition in The Artists Alley Gallery – downtown San Francisco,
California, United-States.
2009
- Diploma of excellence ART ADDICTION MEDIAL MUSEUM - London
- Exhibition in GORA gallery - Montreal
2008
- Exhibition in Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec
(Le LEVANT) : « Les Esprits Rebelles » - Gibran Khalil
Gibran - Montreal
2007
- Gold medal for the category “Figurative painting” in “Musée
des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec” (Le LEVANT) – Montreal
- Exhibition in “salon d’art TRAM” – Montreal (Mont-Royal)
- Exhibition in « Musée des Maîtres et Artisans
du Québec » (Le LEVANT)
2006
- Member of «Le LEVANT» – Montreal
- Member of « Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du
Québec »
- Sincere gratitude by the ministry of culture of the Republic of
Latvia
- Appreciation by the consulate of the Republic of Latvia
- “Phoenix”, tribute to the Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
The Canvas was exhibited at:
• Martyrs place – Downtown Beirut
• Rafic Hariri international airport - Beirut
• “Association de développement de gémmayze” (ADG)
- Beirut
• Unesco under the patronage of the Minister of culture Dr Tarik
Mitri - Beirut
• National library at Baakline - Lebanon
2004
- Exhibition at “Grand Hills” Hotel – Broumana - Lebanon
- General Secretary of the artistic comity of the “ADG” - Lebanon
2003
- Exhibition at Biel (Artsud) - Beirut
- Exhibition at Bazerkan (Fosh Street) - Beirut
- Exhibition “Jabal” (Aley) - Lebanon
- Exhibition at Byblos – Lebanon
2002
- Honorary collective exhibition at the “Lebanese Academy of fine
arts – ALBA – Lebanon
- Exhibition at “ADG” – Gemayze – Lebanon
- Exhibition at the virtual international gallery «Arope»
- International exhibition at Damascus
2001
- Instructor of visual art at the «Association de Beyrouth
pour le développement social – Lebanon
- Exhibition at «Centre socio-culturel à Gemayze»-Lebanon
1997
- Architect - A.L.B.A. (Balamand)– Lebanon
1992
- Has collaborated in the execution of «Sacre Coeur»
church colored-glass windows - Badaro – Lebanon
Article:
Hatching and Red Series by Antoine Bridi
Biographie
en Français et article: Démarche artistique
Florence Biennial 2011:
- FEMALE GLADIATORS (244cm x 183cm)
- THE FLAME OF THE WITCHES (244cm x 92cm) - Oil on canvas, Alla
Prima
►► Some
of the artist's artwork
►► Meet the artist in Art Direct Sale!
Contact: antoinebridi@yahoo.com
- Facebook
page
Phone:
Canada: 1-(514) 464 4444 / 1-(514) 504 7039
Lebanon: 961 3 689 974
Physical address: 1265 boul. Graham app. 9 - Montreal, Qc H3P
2G5
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