Valentin “TEURK” Bechade


Valentin Bechade – Teurk
Visual Artist, Set Designer, Performer
1976 – France
Lives and works in Paris

Valentin Béchade alias Teurk hand painting since its beginnings to places of conflict: Lebanon (Beirut), Palestine (Hebron), Israel (Jerusalem), and Bosnia, just after the war ended, he bomb the ruined bridge Mostar … Backed by a long history of graffiti, second generation, that of 90 years, he was able to move from street to gallery. His work is at the crossroads of the issues of humanity, society and brings all the aesthetic and political questions.
Béchade managed cleverly to conceptualize a long multiform work. The wild lettering of the beginnings, he pass from the spray to the brush, the sticker to the magnet, from the surface of the wall to the volume of the cinderblock, the grinder to the steel … One of his talents is to have focused his creation and reflections on the public support of the brutality of life, on raw materials of the street: the concrete and the steel.
So an emerging artist who seized cinderblock formatted and industrialized to build a piece, make it unique and immediately recognizable in 2000 as a giant collage black and white in a public space in painting on canvas, concrete but also steel. The echo of cinderblock wall, in opposition to the canvas, which becomes a symbol of his second signature. Béchade is also now a genuine sculptor, accomplished, perfectly mastering the grinder on his massive steel structures. Works executed in the struggle between man, the tool material and erecting steel totems striated, like Twin Towers, Bulk Revolt and Freedom, impossible to break down … And the volume of the frame, the sculptor to painter again, putting his artifact scene and flavor of Concrete, Concrete Jungle …

No wonder that the creator is also an experimenter. For some time, he mixed magnetism and aesthetics, music and serial number of effects, iron filings of rust, solid in fluid forms and figures, cast and stains … Magic of chemistry! In the Abstraction in of his experimental videos where it is not ignored “accretion” he signed with Simon Rouby and Boris Maleval, a masterpiece.

ACCRETION
(Process for agglomerating materials)
“Accretion” explores the blurred boundary between installation, experimental film, painting, photography, sculpting, music … the workspace is the object around which gravitate these mediums, which all contribute to try to make tangible the invisible energies that animate matter. This process of research and continuous improvisation born of unusual objects, videos, images, sounds. “
Teurk present here a movie from these experiments (duration: 7 minutes, and assembly sound design: Thomas Hardouin) and 5 paintings made ​​in 2010 and 2011. In his paintings, he sculpts the liquid metal by playing magnetic fields to make tangible the invisible energies that animate the field.
As for the visual fascination for micro-physical processes at work, the random geometry, master of gesture, “Accretion” proves the constant desire of Teurk to indicate other scales and to divert the attention to other signals, such as many new interpretive guides to the world around him. The interaction between particles becomes allegory and can alternately be read as interactions between
people catalyst Universe, networking …

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2010 | Contemporary Art Fair “cutlog” – Paris / France
2010 | Contemporary Art Fair “Chic” – Paris / France
2010 | Group show “Nervousness” – Galerie G / France
2010 | Group show “T.I.G. n°3″ – Paris / France
2010 | Group show “Tag en direct” – Musée à ciel ouvert – Paris / France
2009 | Contemporary Art Fair “Slick” – Paris / France
2009 | Group show “T.A.G – collection Gallizia” – Grand Palais – Paris
2009 | Group show “Reload” – Galerie Celal – Paris / France
2009 | Group show “Feldstarke international” – 104 – Paris / France
2009 | Group show “Nix Krise” – Super Plan – Berlin / Allemagne
2009 | Group show “Graffiti, Etat des lieux” – Agnès B Galerie du jour – Paris / France
2009 | Group show “Collectif artistes” – Galerie Art City – Paris / France
2009 | Group show “T.I.G. n°2″ – La Cartonerie, Paris / France
2008 | Solo show “Teurk” – Galerie Itinerrance – Paris / France
2008 | Group show “Lay down the reality” – Galerie Moretti & Moretti – Paris / France
2008 | Group show “Les 40 ans de Dinh Van” – Mini Palais – Paris / France
2008 | Group show “Vous êtes bien urbain”- Galerie du Triangle – Rennes / France
2008 | Group show “Potborus”, Essen / Allemagne
2008 | Group show “400ML” – Maison des Métallos – Paris / France
2007 | Installation interactive “Mauer” – Paris / France
2007 | Group show “T.I.G. n°1″ – La Générale, Paris / France
2006 | Group show “Rue au Grand Palais” – Grand Palais – Paris / France
2006 | Scénographie consacrée au couturier “Léonard” – Musée du tissu et arts déco – Lyon /
France
2006 | Group show “T.N.T” – Galerie Chappe – Paris / France
2005 | Group show “Versus Color” happening international de street-artistes – Lausanne /
Suisse
2005 | Group show “Beton” – Musée des Arts et Métiers – Paris / France
2004 | Group show “Concrete jungle” – Galerie Annie Stansal – Paris / France
2003 | “Concrete Jungle” – Interventions picturales en milieu urbain – France
2003 | Group show “Agnès B” – Paris / France
2003 | Création de la marque “Béton” – Sérigraphies et broderies textiles
2001 | Commande publique “Fresque picturale” – Grande Arche – EPAD – Paris / France
2001 | “Trace Direct” – Interventions artistiques en milieu urbain “UNE NUIT” – Paris / France
2000 | Résidence artistique – Hébron / Cisjordanie
1998-2000 | “Toulouse-Mostar” – Interventions in situ – Mostar, Paris, Toulouse, Beyrouth,
Marrakech
1998 | Solo show “Mostar” – Centre Pavarotti – Mostar / Bosnie
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
2010 | “Das ruas às galerieas” – Laetitia Constant – Horizonte Geoographico – Brésil
2010 | Une Nuit, photographies, Collectif Une Nuit, La Kitchen.
2009 | “Paris Street art” de Romuald Stivine – Editions Prestel
2008 | “Graffitti goes main stream” – Claudia Barbieri – International Herald tribune
2008 | “400 ML” – Editions Kitchen 93
2007 | “Concrete Auction” – Drôme magazine
2005 | Wild War, dossier, interview et photographies.
2005 | Hors du Temps, Portrait, photographies, contribution. Antonin Giverne, Coloor Zoo.
2003 | Hip-Art, the French Touch, photographies de K. Monfort. La Kitchen.