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Louis RUNEMBERG Painter - Sculptor

21, rue Jules Ferry, 92100 BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT /FRANCE
Freelance teacher in modelling and oil-painting . Member of the Maison des Artistes and Taylor Foundation
Born on March 25 1969, at Mont Saint Aignan, France

Originator of the concept " Windows Art"

Background education in the arts at the School of the Beaux Arts in Rouen Accomplishments
1994/2002 : Academy of painting
1998/2000 : sketches of real- life models
1999/2000: modelling
1987/1989 : School of painting
1984/1987 : initiation to drawing for 2nd/3rd level students

Numerous exhibitions follow :
Atelier Porte Ouverte
Exhibiting in the city of Boulogne Billancourt Hall Les Fougères on oct 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2009 underneath the Grand' Place
Dreknor Event
( creating a poster for the Dreknor Exhibition and exhibiting some of my own artwork in Paris at the Parc
André Citroën from June 13th to 14th 2009).

Exhibitions abroad
GALERIE GLOB'ART in Switzerland from november 1st 2004 to February 6th 2005 in Berne, Davos and Geneva.
Personal exhibits in an art gallery
2003 - 2005 GALERIE GLOB'ART, 11 rue Guillaume le Conquérant, 76000 Rouen

Public sales
- 2004: auction sales at the hotel Drouot in Neuilly-sur- Seine on december 16 th 2004
work of art : oil on canvas/ Title : " Venus in Fauve"/ format : 50x65 cm
-1989 : auction sale in the château robert le diable ARRAS BTP. ( Château Robert le diable 15 portraits)
- 1988 : auction sale in château Robert le diable ARRAS BTP ( Château Robert le diable 8 portraits)

Appearances on the air
June 2008 Normandie TV PARIS : exhibiting alongside the Parc André- Citroën
June 2008 Normandie TV ROUEN : appearing for the promotion of the Dreknor poster Dreknor la Normandie débarque ( Make way for Dreknor, Normandy).
April 14th 2008 on French television France 5 : sequence from show Les Maternelles presenting the hero of the day hero of Les Maternelles on the set Les Maternelles with Karine LE MARCHAND. News coverage by Guillaume Morinet.
May 4th 2004 on France 5 tv show Les Maternelles, covered by Guillaume Morinet Cyber exhibitions
Youtube, Dailymotion, France 2, Internaut, Métro, Google, Yahoo, myspace, facebook, hi5, artactif, artnet,auction, Normandie TV, France 5,...


As special guest

2009 Paris 15th district Parc André Citroën 13th and 14th of June 2009 : hosted by Dreknor.
2004: 4th Beaux Arts Exhibition, Hall of Contemporary painting from May 8th to May 16th at BARENTIN.
June 1990 : show at the Palais des Congrès in Rouen
More personal exhibits in halls:
2009 : 1st exhibition in Boulogne Billancourt from november 11 th to october 4th ( Windows art 4F,04)
2003 : 27th Spring exhibition in Saint Aubin les Elbeuf ( WINDOWS ART 5 and 6)
2003 : 18th Spring exhibition in the Gallery of the Park of Notre Dame in Gravenchon. ( regard en coin, nuit fauve) ( A sidelong glance, Fauve night)
2002: 20th Fall exhibition at the Gallery of the Park of Notre Dame in Gravenchon( venus fauve) (Venus in Fauve)
53rd Exhibition of la palette Cantilienne. ( Prix de la ville) ( a city award) ( windows color ou fenêtres sur cours) ( windows color or rear windows )
The artists' 36 th exhibition in Grand Quevilly (Psychose) ( Psycho)
54th exhibition in Elbeuf (compositions 1 et 2 et guitare et violon) (pieces 1 and 2 and guitar and violin)
26th Spring Exhibition in Saint Aubin Les Elbeuf. ( Manhattan)
2001: 35 th artists' exhibition in Grand Quevilly.( Prix des annonceurs) ( sponsors award) (Manhattan)
2000: Château Vascoeuil. (La Liberté) (Freedom)
1999: 51st exhibition in Elbeuf (Testament) (Will) 33rd artists' exhibition in Grand Quevilly. (Music color,
Windows color)
23rd Spring exhibition in Saint Aubin Les Elbeuf. ( Prix spécial du jury la lectrice) ( Grand Prize by Jury
for the Reader) ( works on display from the cours Sauvé nos 1,2,3,4)
10th Fall exhibition in Maromme.( Le Mir and Le Belem Armada Rouen 1999) 1st exhibition by the painters from the Armada 1999 at the cloître des pénitents ( Cloister of the penitents) works (Le Belem, Le Mir, Le Dar, Moldziezy, Europa)
22nd Fall exhibition of the AYAC in Yvetot. ( Guitar et violon) (Guitar and violin)
1998 : 9th Fall exhibition in Maromme. (Le Vase Bleu) ( The Blue Vase) Other places :
1988 : Ecole Franklin rue Raspail, Sotteville- Lès- Rouen.
1987: Comptoir Rouennais on the square la Pucelle in Rouen. Awards and scholarships:
- 2002 : Grand Prize by the city of Canteleu ( purchase from Canteleu, title : Rear Window 1st WINDOWS ART 20 portraits).
- 2001: Sponsor's award from the city ofr Grand Quevilly MANHATTAN 11 SEPTEMBRE, 115x115 cm).
- 1999 : received Special prize from Jury in Saint Aubain Les Elbeuf ( Lectures at Sauvé " The Reader").
- 1990 : seeded 2nd and awarded prize in drawing for the 71ème régiment du Génie de Oissel ( the 71st Engineering Corps in Oissel)..
Publications
- The BENEZIT a reference dictionary for all painters, sculptors and engravers published by Gründ .
- ARTPRICE - ARTVALUE -AKOUN -AUCTION...
- 1999 Elbeuf journal " Lectures at Sauvé" The Reader. Designing posters for cultural events
- 2009 DREKNOR poster cultural event on the Norman conquest
- 1999 CARNAVOILE poster carnival event in Grand Quevilly

Designing frescoes
- Fresco designed for the Géodis company ( Sotteville lès Rouen) on the lake of Annecy 400x250 cm.
- Fresco 150x150 Fruits et Fleurs ( Fruit and Flowers) 5 petit Couronne).


Reviews

- Luis PORQUET - April 30 , 1999 - Paris Normandie paper
" Louis RUNEMBERG - awarded the Grand Prize by the jury- has the chief merit of tackling true subject matter drawn from those years spent working industriously at Sauvé.He is endowed with a genuine approach to painting. There lies a sense of the individual's facial expression of which only the outward body posture is delineated."
- André RUELLAN - November 15, 2000- Elbeuf journal
The Will - a work by Louis RUNEMBERG- caught our attention by the boldness of the theme and the undertaking. In effect, we must raise our caps to this budding artist whose craft runs counter to works of art that are these days fashionable and unchallenging. If he manages to acquire a sense of self-discipline there is no doubt that he will somedaytake a rightful part in the current debates on art."
- André RUELLAN - November 15, 2000 - Elbeuf journal.
Through the majestic boldness and the fullness and vibrant quality of his paintstroke Louis Runemberg has a way of recapturing and imparting a beauty of a starker nature as he leaves out vain considerations while allowing for brilliant patches of colour and matter which make him as powerful a painter as he is enthralling. A fine piece of workmanship in a painter who devotes this top- knotch exhibition to nudes and portraiture two fields of which would, doubtless, scare off many a contemporary painter who prefers hiding behind artwork altogether formless , often fearfully unimaginative and infinitely less challenging."
- Luis PORQUET - November 2001- Journal Les Affiches de Normandie .
" Amongst the exhibitors at the 35th showing we have been sensitive to the work Louis Runemberg sent us
offering an unsettling vision of 9/11 that is the vision of a man's body surrounded by smoke and then sucked into abysmal depths."
- ART 11 - Site d'Art Contemporain ( Contemporary Art Site)
Paintings, sculptures and mountings on canvas by Louis Runemberg " Description : Louis Runemberg expresses his art form whether it be painting or sculpture with uncommon boldness. In his nudes as in his portraits characters are teeming with life and are an invitation to take part in the action. He handles topics of current debate in a forceful manner as with the scream of panic on his montage of 9/11 entitled Manhattan."
- Luis PORQUET - April 12, 2002 - Paris Normandie.
La Palette bestows its rewards ( 12/ 04 / 2002 right bank) " The 53rd hall of La Palette cantilienne drew to a close on Sunday. The laurels went to an artist for his talents whose originality and richness in his works carried the day. The city award was bestowed upon Louis Runemberg for a sombre yet colorful canvas with both music and characters intertwining on the said canvas."
- Luis PORQUET April 12, 2002 Paris Normandie.
" Louis Runemberg blends painting with sculpting to voice the horror of 9/11 with a vision of chaos as a man is seen sinking into abysmal depths; a symbol of American power being trodden underfoot with the gigantic infernal Tower engulfing countless lives which never again shall see the
light of day whilst stock market values are back where they belong."
- Luis PORQUET May 23 2003 - The Elbeuf journal
" With Windows, Louis Runemberg revisits, in his own way, a certain approach to stainglass not to be confused with the software bearing the same name. Two narrative sequences
with an uncanny and disconcerting flavor which might have
deserved to be better highlighted."
- André RUELLAN April 2004 Province of Haute Normandie Seine Maritime BARENTIN
( 76360) (zip code) From 5/8/04 to 5/16/04
" Louis Runemberg is a young painter from the northern part of Normandy as imaginative as he is gifted. He masters his craft with gusto and dedicates himself as much to research work in pictorial art as to the emotions felt by one who is under the spell of the uncanny and of the discovery of novel techniques.We have only to mention his new concept "Windows Art" which he will be expounding in Barentin in
hall André Siegfried. Private showing scheduled on May 7, 18h30 ( 6 30pm).
Please note that a coverage on Louis Runemberg will be aired on TV channel 5 on May 4, at 8h 45 ( 8 45 am) and on cable TV at 21h ( 9 pm). The artist will be talking about his life,artistic world and of
course" Windows Art" and the different stages of elaboration." Peinture contemporaine ( Contemporary painting ) " The department of culture in Barentin is getting everything set for its traditional exhibition on contemporary painting which will be shown to the publc in hall Siegfried as of the following week in May : Sat 8 th to Sun 16th. Amid the artists invited for this 2004 show: Louis Runemberg who, as a painter and sculptor, born in 1969 enters the school of Les Beaux Arts in Rouen at the age of 15 under the leadership of F Lagis. At age 18, Louis Runemberg enters the Academy of painting of Les Beaux Arts in Rouen under
the leadership of Christian Sauvé. He studies modelling in Armelle Normand's workshop and becomes a painter of the Armada in 1999. During the exhibition the painter will introduce his new concept " Windows Art". In point of fact, there is a news coverage devoted to him which will be aired today, Monday May 4 on channel 5 at 8 h50 ( 8h 50 am) on the French show " Les Maternelles".

The Concept of " WINDOWS ART" by Louis RUNEMBERG

The concept draws its inspiration from the stain-glass windows in cathedrals and the windows of our modern-day buildings throbbing with activity as when night time comes through the play of light and by scenes from ordinary life. The idea also rests on Cezanne's sentence " the richer the color, the fuller the form" which becomes " the fuller the outline, the richer the color " ( Louis Runemberg).
" And this sentence becomes something of a magic formula and so I decide to give it my own interpretation through Windows. The black line highlights the color while delineating it or accentuating it...". The concept Windows Art is also meant to be a response to the evolution of our thoughts and moods. " After having studied painting at the Beaux Arts for several years, I realize that we tire of the images on paintings.
There comes a time when we saturate, when the image no longer brings us anything because it has been absorbed by our moods. So that is when the idea occurs to place several images side by side on one and the same canvas to tone down the cloying effect for several images bring a greater set
of responses to our moods than just one. And then ... Windows. " They are the images of my unconscious
self which I work with using oil-painting. It is first and foremost painting by instinct, driven by the unconscious self; a sort of haziness which is then moulded into shape by careful, delibe- rate delineation. And Windows Art combines these two psychological states.




Traduction : Marc NEUBAUHER USA

Louis RUNEMBERG Artiste Peintre Sculpteur Créateur du Concept « WINDOWS ART » ancien élève de l’école des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, peintre de L’armada de Rouen en 1999, Membre de la Maison des artistes et de la Fondation Taylor. Présent dans le grand dictionnaire des artistes LE BENEZIT et sur la cote des peintres Akoun, Artprice, Auction. Grande présence sur internet Youtube, France 2, France 3, et passage audiovisuel sur France 5,Normandie TV…()
biographie
Louis RUNEMBERG
Artiste Peintre Sculpteur
Professeur Indépendant de Modelage et de Peinture à l’huile.
Membre de la Maison des Artistes, et de la Fondation Taylor.
Né le 25 mars 1969, à Mont Saint Aignan, FRANCE
Créateur du Concept « WINDOWS ART »
FORMATION ARTISTIQUE A L'ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE ROUEN
1994/2002 : Académie de peinture.
Animation de cours et formation technique à la peinture à l’huile d’après modèles vivants. Broyage de pigments, conception et utilisation des liants, des médiums et enduits universels. Conception des supports entoilés.

1998/2002 : croquis d’après modèles vivants.
Formation technique aux différents composants graphiques (craies aquarelle, crayons, feutres, marqueurs, lavis, aquarelle, gouache, fusains, mines de plomb, sépia, encre de chine, pastel sec, pastel à l’huile).
Animation des cours.

1999/2000 : Modelage.
Formation aux techniques de modelage et de vidage.

1987 /1989 : Académie de peinture.
Formation à l’expression artistique et mise en page.

1984/1987 : Initiation dessin 2ème et 3ème niveau.
Formation technique du dessin (fusain, pastel sec, aquarelle). Etude des perspectives et proportions anatomiques.

EXPOSITIONS
ATELIER PORTE OUVERTE
Exposition à Boulogne Billancourt salle les Fougères sous la Grand’ Place le 2, 3 ,4 octobre 2009

EVENEMENT DREKNOR
(Création de l’affiche Dreknor et Expositions Louis Runemberg)
13 – 14 juin 2009 PARIS Parc André Citroën

EXPOSITION A L’ETRANGER
SUISSE – GALERIE GLOB’ART du 1er novembre 2004 au 6 février 2005 à Berne, Davos et Genève.

EXPOSITION PHYSIQUE EN GALERIE
2003 – 2005 GALERIE GLOB’ART, 11 rue Guillaume le Conquérant, 76000 ROUEN.

VENTES PUBLIQUES
- 2004 : Vente aux enchères à l’Hôtel Drouot de Neuilly-sur-Seine, le 16 décembre 2004.
Œuvre : Huile sur toile / Titre : « VENUS FAUVE » / Format : 50x65 cm.
- 1989 : Vente aux enchères au château robert le diable ARRAS BTP. (Château Robert le Diable 15 figure).
- 1988 : Vente aux enchères au château Robert le Diable ARRAS BTP (Château Robert 8 figure).

PASSAGES AUDIOVISUELS
Juin 2008 Normandie TV PARIS : exposition sur le quai du Parc André-Citroën.
Juin 2008 Normandie TV ROUEN : passage pour l’affiche DREKNOR la Normandie débarque.

14 avril 2008 sur France 5 télévision séquence Héro des Maternelles sur le Plateau des Maternelles avec Karine LE MARCHAND. Reportage de Guillaume Morinet.

4 Mai 2004 sur France 5 télévision les maternelles, reportage de Guillaume Morinet.

EXPOSITION WEB
Youtube, Daylimotion, France 2, France 3, Internaute, Métro, Google, Yahoo, myspace, facebook, hi5, artactif, artprice, artnet, auction, Normandie TV, France 5, ….

INVITE D’HONNEUR
2009 : Paris 15ème Parc André Citroën 13 et 14 juin 2009 présenté par DREKNOR .
2004 : 4ème Salon de la peinture contemporaine du 8 AU 16 mai 2004 à BARENTIN.
1990 : juin exposition palais des congrés de ROUEN.

EXPOSITIONS PHYSIQUES EN SALON
2009 : 01er salon de peinture de la Ville de Boulogne Billancourt du 11 novembre au 4 octobre 2009.(Windows art 4F,04)
2003 : 27ème Salon de Printemps à Saint Aubin les Elbeuf (WINDOWS ART 5 et 6)
2003 : 18ème Salon de printemps à la Galerie du parc de Notre Dame de Gravenchon. (regard en coin, nuit fauve)
2002 : 20ème Salon d'automne à la Galerie du parc de Notre Dame de Gravenchon(venus fauve)
2002 : 53ème Salon de la palette Cantilienne. (Prix de la ville) (windows color ou fenêtres sur cours )
2002 : 36ème Salon des Artistes de Grand Quevilly. (Psychose)
2002 : 54ème Salon d'Elbeuf. (composition 1 et 2 et guitare et violon)
2002 : 26ème Salon de printemps de saint Aubin les Elbeuf. (Manhattan)
2001 : 35ème Salon des Artistes du Grand Quevilly. (Prix des annonceurs)(Manhattan)
2000 : Château Vascoeuil. (La Liberté).
1999 : 51ème Salon d’Elbeuf (Testament)
1999 : 33ème Salon des Artistes de Grand Quevilly. (Music color, Windows color)
1999 : 23ème Salon de printemps à saint Aubin les Elbeuf. (Prix spécial du jury lalectrice)(œuvres exposées cours Sauvé 1, 2, 3, 4 )
1999 : 10ème Salon d’automne à Maromme. (Le Mir et Le Belem Armada Rouen 1999)
1999 : 1ère Exposition des peintres de l'ARMADA 1999 au cloître des pénitents à Rouen. Le Belem, Le Mir, Le Dar Moldziezy, Europa)
1999 : 22ème Salon d'automne de l'AYAC à Yvetot. (Guitare et violon)
1998 : 9ème Salon d'automne à Maromme.(Le Vase Bleu).

Autres lieux :
1988 : Ecole Franklin rue Raspail, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen.
1987 : Comptoir Rouennais place de la Pucelle à Rouen.

BOURSES ET PRIX

- 2002 :1er Prix de la ville de Canteleu (achat de ville de Canteleu, format : 20 figure, titre : Fenêtre sur cours 1er WINDOWS ART).
- 2001 : Prix des annonceurs de la ville de Grand Quevilly (MANHATTAN 11 SEPTEMBRE 2001 115X115 cm).
- 1999 : Prix Spécial du Jury de la ville de Saint Aubain les Elbeuf (Cours Sauvé « la lectrice »).
- 1990 : 2ème prix de Dessin 71ème régiment du Génie de Oissel.


EDITIONS

- LE BENEZIT Le grand dictionnaire des artistes peintres sculpteurs et graveurs édition Gründ.
- ARTPRICE - ARTVALUE - AKOUN – AUCTION…
- 1999 Journal d’Elbeuf « Cours Sauvé » La lectrice.


CREATIONS AFFICHES POUR EVENEMENTS

- 2009 AFFICHE DREKNOR manifestation culturelle normande.
- 1999 AFFICHE CARNAVOILE manifestation carnaval de Grand Quevilly.






CREATIONS FRESQUES

- Réalisation fresque pour la Société Géodis (Sotteville lès Rouen) Lac d’Annecy 400 x 250 cm.
- Fresque 150X150cm Fruits et Fleurs (Petit Couronne).


CRITIQUES

Luis PORQUET - 30 avril 1999 – Paris Normandie. « Louis RUNEMBERG (Prix Spécial du Jury) a l'immense mérite de s'affronter à de vrais sujets puisés dans l'atmosphère studieux du cours Sauvé. Il y a chez lui une authentique démarche de peintre. Un sens de l'expression dans les visages dont il n'esquisse que la posture. »


Luis PORQUET - 15 octobre 1999 – Journal d’Elbeuf. « Le TESTAMENT de Louis RUNEMBERG nous a retenu par son audace du thème et de l'entreprise. Il faut tout de même saluer le travail de ce jeune peintre, à contre courant de la mode et des facilités du jour. S'il parvient à se discipliner nous ne doutons pas qu'il puisse un jour prendre sa place dans le débat Artistique. »


André RUELLAN - 15 novembre 2000 – Journal d’Elbeuf. « Chez Louis RUNEMBERG grâce à son audace somptueuse et à sa touche pleine et vivace qui capturent l'atmosphère et transmettent un charme plus rugueux, mais sans vains problèmes en se ménageant de brillants impacts de couleur et de matière qui en font un peintre aussi puissant que séduisant. Un beau brin de peinture chez ce peintre qui consacre cette bonne exposition au nu et au portrait, deux disciplines qui effarouchent bien des peintres contemporains, préférant se réfugier dès lors dans un informel souvent pénible mais infiniment moins casse-gueule. »

Luis PORQUET - novembre 2001- Les Affiches de Normandie. « Parmi les exposant de cette 35ème édition nous avons été sensible à l'envoi de Louis RUNEMBERG, qui nous offre une vision angoissante du 11 septembre : un corps d'homme entouré de fumée se trouve happé par les profondeurs de l'abîme. »


ART 11 – Site d’Art Contemporain
Peintures, sculptures et montages de Louis Runemberg
« Description: Louis Runemberg s'exprime en peinture comme en sculpture avec une audace inhabituelle. Dans ses nus comme dans ses portraits, les personnages vibrent et nous invitent à participer à l'action. Il aborde des thèmes actuels avec une expression puissante, comme dans son cri du 11 septembre, le montage intitulé Manhattan. »

Luis PORQUET - 12 AVRIL 2002- Paris Normandie.
La Palette décerne ses prix (04.12.2002 / rive droite)
« Le cinquante-troisième salon de la Palette cantilienne s'est achevé dimanche. Il a couronné le talent d'un artiste, qui a séduit par l'originalité et la richesse de ses œuvres. Le prix de la ville a été remis à Louis RUNEMBERG pour une toile contemporaine sombre et colorée, à la fois composée de musique et de personnages qui se croisent sur la toile. »

Luis PORQUET 12 AVRIL 2002 Paris Normandie.
« Louis RUNEMBERG mêle peinture et sculpture pour exprimer l'horreur du 11 septembre, vision d'Apocalypse, un homme s'enfonce dans les profondeurs de l'abîme. Symbole humilié de la puissance américaine, la gigantesque tour infernale a englouti des vies qui jamais plus ne verront le jour. Mais les valeurs boursières ont repris leur place. »

Luis PORQUET 23 MAI 2003- Le Journal d’Elbeuf.
« Avec Windows, Louis RUNEMBERG revisite, à sa manière, une certaine approche du vitrail. Ne pas confondre avec le logiciel informatique. Deux suites narratives au goût étrange et déroutant qui, peut-être, eussent mérité une meilleure mise en lumière. »

André RUELLAN avril 2004
Haute Normandie › Seine-Maritime › BARENTIN (76360)
Du 08/05/04 au 16/05/04
« Louis RUNEMBERG est un jeune peintre Haut Normand aussi imaginatif que talentueux .Il maîtrise son art avec brio et se voue tout autant à la recherche picturale qu'aux émotions éprouvées par l'emprise de l'inédit et la découverte de nouvelles techniques.
Preuve en est son nouveau concept "WINDOWS ART" qu'il expose à Barentin, salle André Siegfried.
Vernissage le 7 mai à 18h30.
Je précise qu'un reportage sur Louis RUNEMBERG passe à la télévision sur France 5 le 4 mai à 8h45, et sur le câble à 21h.
L’artiste y parle de sa vie, de son univers créatif, et, bien sûr, du"Windows Art"et des différentes périodes créatives. »


Peinture contemporaine (04.05.2004 / seine)
« Le service culturel de Barentin prépare sa traditionnelle exposition de peinture contemporaine, présentée à la salle Siegfried, du samedi 8 au dimanche 16 mai prochains.

Parmi les artistes invités de cette édition 2004, figure Louis Runemberg. Peintre et sculpteur né en 1969, il entre à l'école des Beaux-Arts de Rouen à l'âge de 15 ans, sous la direction de François Lagis. A 18 ans, Louis Runemberg entre à l'académie de peinture des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, sous la direction de Christian Sauvé. Il étudie aussi le modelage dans l'atelier d’ Armelle Normand. Il devient peintre de l'Armada en 1999.

Lors de l'exposition, le peintre va présenter le nouveau concept « Windows art ». A noter d'ailleurs, un reportage lui est consacré, aujourd'hui mardi 4 mai, sur la chaîne France 5 à partir de 8 h 50, dans le cadre de l'émission « Les Maternelles ».

CONCEPT « WINDOWS ART »
- Louis RUNEMBERG -

Ce concept est inspiré par les vitraux des cathédrales et les fenêtres des immeubles de notre monde contemporain animées, quand vient le soir, par les lumières et les scènes de vie.
L’idée s’appuie aussi sur la phrase de Cézanne « Quand la couleur est à sa richesse, la forme est à sa plénitude ».
Elle devient « lorsque le trait est à sa plénitude la couleur est à sa richesse ».
(Louis Runemberg)
« Ceci devient pour moi une formule magique et je fais mon interprétation à travers Windows. Le trait noir valorise la couleur tout en l’entourant, la soulignant… »

Le Concept Windows Art se veut être aussi une réponse à l’évolution de nos pensées, de nos ressentis. « Après plusieurs années d’étude sur la peinture aux beaux-arts, je m’aperçois que nous nous lassons des images des tableaux. Vient un moment de saturation où cette image ne nous apporte plus rien car elle a été assimilée par nos ressentis. J’ai donc l’idée d’apposer plusieurs images sur une même toile afin de diminuer ce sentiment de saturation car plusieurs images apportent plus de réponses à nos ressentis.
Enfin, Windows. « Ce sont des images de ma mémoire, de mon inconscient que je travaille tout d’abord à l’huile. C’est tout d’abord la peinture de l’instinct, de l’inconscient, du flou mis ensuite au net par le trait conscient constructif. Windows Art allie donc ces deux états psychologiques ».
Voici toute la traduction avec ses imperfections.

Painter - Sculptor

Freelance teacher in modelling and oil-painting
Member of the Maison des Artistes and Taylor Foundation

Born on March 25 1969, at Mont Saint Aignan, France
Living on 21, rue Jules Ferry

Originator of the concept " Windows Art"

Background education in the arts at the
School of the Beaux Arts in Rouen

Accomplishments

1994/2002 : Academy of painting
live teaching and training in oil-painting
based on real-life models
Pigment-grinding , conceived and used powder
combined with different types of painting and
used mixtures between powder and painting and
basic fillers ( acrylic, pastel...)
mounted canvasses

1998/2000 : sketches of real- life models
technical training in the use of various
graphic components ( painting in watercolours,
crayons, markers, felt-tip pens, chalk , washdrawing
painting in gouache, charcoal drawing, graphite or
blacklead pencilling, sepia drawing, use of Indian
ink, dry pastel and oil pastel).
live teaching

1999/2000: modelling
training in modelling and cleaning

1987/1989 : School of painting
was made sensitive to art and learned
how to design lay-outs

1984/1987 : initiation to drawing for 2nd/3rd level students
technical training in drawing(charcoal, dry pastel,
watercolour).
studied perspective and body proportions

Numerous exhibitions follow :

Atelier Porte Ouverte
Exhibiting in the city of Boulogne Billancourt Hall Les Fougères
on oct 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2009 underneath the Grand' Place

Dreknor Event
( creating a poster for the Dreknor Exhibition and exhibiting some of my own artwork in Paris at the Parc André Citroën from June 13th to 14th 2009).

Exhibitions abroad

GALERIE GLOB'ART in Switzerland from november 1st 2004
to February 6th 2005 in Berne, Davos and Geneva.

Personal exhibits in an art gallery :
2003 - 2005 GALERIE GLOB'ART, 11 rue Guillaume le
Conquérant, 76000 Rouen

Public sales :

- 2004: auction sales at the hotel Drouot in Neuilly-sur- Seine
on december 16 th 2004
work of art : oil on canvas/ Title : " Venus in Fauve"/
format : 50x65 cm
-1989 : auction sale in the château robert le diable ARRAS
BTP. ( Château Robert le diable 15 portraits)
- 1988 : auction sale in château Robert le diable ARRAS BTP
( Château Robert le diable 8 portraits)

Appearances on the air

June 2008 Normandie TV PARIS : exhibiting alongside the
Parc André- Citroën
June 2008 Normandie TV ROUEN : appearing for the promotion
of the Dreknor poster
Dreknor la Normandie
débarque
( Make way for Dreknor,
Normandy).
April 14th 2008 on French television France 5 : sequence from
show Les Maternelles presenting the hero of the day
hero of Les Maternelles on the set Les Maternelles with Karine
LE MARCHAND. News coverage by Guillaume Morinet.

May 4th 2004 on France 5 tv show Les Maternelles, covered
by Guillaume Morinet

Cyber exhibitions

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As special guest

2009 Paris 15th district Parc André Citroën 13th and 14th of June 2009 : hosted by Dreknor.

2004: 4th Beaux Arts Exhibition, Hall of Contemporary painting
from May 8th to May 16th at BARENTIN.
June 1990 : show at the Palais des Congrès in Rouen

More personal exhibits in halls:

2009 : 1st exhibition in Boulogne Billancourt from november
11 th to october 4th ( Windows art 4F,04)

2003 : 27th Spring exhibition in Saint Aubin les Elbeuf
( WINDOWS ART 5 and 6)
2003 : 18th Spring exhibition in the Gallery of the Park of Notre
Dame in Gravenchon. ( regard en coin, nuit fauve)
( A sidelong glance, Fauve night)

2002: 20th Fall exhibition at the Gallery of the Park of Notre
Dame in Gravenchon( venus fauve) (Venus in Fauve)
53rd Exhibition of la palette Cantilienne. ( Prix de la ville)
( a city award) ( windows color ou fenêtres sur cours)
( windows color or rear windows )
The artists' 36 th exhibition in Grand Quevilly (Psychose)
( Psycho)
54th exhibition in Elbeuf (compositions 1 et 2 et guitare et
violon) (pieces 1 and 2 and guitar and violin)
26th Spring Exhibition in Saint Aubin Les Elbeuf.
( Manhattan)

2001: 35 th artists' exhibition in Grand Quevilly.( Prix des
annonceurs) ( sponsors award) (Manhattan)

2000: Château Vascoeuil. (La Liberté) (Freedom)

1999: 51st exhibition in Elbeuf (Testament) (Will)
33rd artists' exhibition in Grand Quevilly. (Music color,
Windows color)
23rd Spring exhibition in Saint Aubin Les Elbeuf.
( Prix spécial du jury la lectrice) ( Grand Prize by Jury
for the Reader) ( works on display from the cours Sauvé
nos 1,2,3,4)
10th Fall exhibition in Maromme.( Le Mir and Le Belem
Armada Rouen 1999)
1st exhibition by the painters from the Armada 1999 at
the cloître des pénitents ( Cloister of the penitents) works
(Le Belem, Le Mir, Le Dar, Moldziezy, Europa)
22nd Fall exhibition of the AYAC in Yvetot. ( Guitar et
violon) (Guitar and violin)

1998 : 9th Fall exhibition in Maromme. (Le Vase Bleu)
( The Blue Vase)

Other places :

1988 : Ecole Franklin rue Raspail, Sotteville- Lès- Rouen.
1987: Comptoir Rouennais on the square la Pucelle in Rouen.

Awards and scholarships:

- 2002 : Grand Prize by the city of Canteleu ( purchase from
Canteleu, title : Rear Window 1st WINDOWS ART
20 portraits).
- 2001: Sponsor's award from the city ofr Grand Quevilly
MANHATTAN 11 SEPTEMBRE, 115x115 cm).
- 1999 : received Special prize from Jury in Saint Aubain
Les Elbeuf ( Lectures at Sauvé " The Reader").

- 1990 : seeded 2nd and awarded prize in drawing for
the 71ème régiment du Génie de Oissel
( the 71st Engineering Corps in Oissel)..

Publications :

- The BENEZIT a reference dictionary for all painters,
sculptors and engravers published by Gründ .

- ARTPRICE - ARTVALUE -AKOUN -AUCTION...

- 1999 Elbeuf journal " Lectures at Sauvé" The Reader.

Designing posters for cultural events

- 2009 DREKNOR poster cultural event on the Norman
conquest
- 1999 CARNAVOILE poster carnival event in Grand Quevilly

Designing frescoes

- Fresco designed for the Géodis company ( Sotteville lès
Rouen) on the lake of Annecy 400x250 cm.
- Fresco 150x150 Fruits et Fleurs ( Fruit and Flowers)
5 petit Couronne).

Reviews

- Luis PORQUET - April 30 , 1999 - Paris Normandie paper
" Louis RUNEMBERG - awarded the Grand Prize by the
jury- has the chief merit of tackling true subject matter
drawn from those years spent working industriously at
Sauvé.He is endowed with a genuine approach to
painting.
There lies a sense of the individual's facial expression
of which only the outward body posture is delineated."

- André RUELLAN - November 15, 2000- Elbeuf journal
The Will - a work by Louis RUNEMBERG- caught our attention
by the boldness of the theme and the undertaking.
In effect, we must raise our caps to this budding artist whose
craft runs counter to works of art that are these days
fashionable and unchallenging.
If he manages to acquire a sense of self-discipline there is no
doubt that he will somedaytake a rightful part in the current
debates on art."

André RUELLAN - November 15, 2000 - Elbeuf journal.
Through the majestic boldness and the fullness and vibrant
quality of his paintstroke Louis Runemberg has a way of
recapturing and imparting a beauty of a starker nature as he
leaves out vain considerations while allowing for brilliant
patches of colour and matter which make him as powerful a
painter as he is enthralling.
A fine piece of workmanship in a painter who devotes this top- knotch exhibition to nudes and portraiture two fields of which would, doubtless, scare off many a contemporary painter who prefers hiding behind artwork altogether formless , often fearfully unimaginative and infinitely less challenging."

- Luis PORQUET - November 2001- Journal Les Affiches de
Normandie .
" Amongst the exhibitors at the 35th showing we have
been sensitive to the work Louis Runemberg sent us
offering an unsettling vision of 9/11 that is the vision of a
man's body surrounded by smoke and then sucked into
abysmal depths."

- ART 11 - Site d'Art Contemporain ( Contemporary Art Site)
Paintings, sculptures and mountings on canvas by Louis
Runemberg

" Description : Louis Runemberg expresses his art form
whether it be painting or sculpture with uncommon
boldness. In his nudes as in his portraits characters are
teeming with life and are an invitation to take part in the
action.
He handles topics of current debate in a forceful manner
as with the scream of panic on his montage of 9/11 entitled
Manhattan."

- Luis PORQUET - April 12, 2002 - Paris Normandie.

La Palette bestows its rewards ( 12/ 04 / 2002 right bank)
" The 53rd hall of La Palette cantilienne drew to a close
on Sunday. The laurels went to an artist for his talents
whose originality and richness in his works carried the day.
The city award was bestowed upon Louis Runemberg for
a sombre yet colorful canvas with both music and
characters intertwining on the said canvas."

- Luis PORQUET April 12, 2002 Paris Normandie.

" Louis Runemberg blends painting with sculpting to voice
the horror of 9/11 with a vision of chaos as a man is seen
sinking into abysmal depths; a symbol of American power
being trodden underfoot with the gigantic infernal Tower
engulfing countless lives which never again shall see the
light of day whilst stock market values are back where
they belong."

- Luis PORQUET May 23 2003 - The Elbeuf journal

" With Windows, Louis Runemberg revisits, in his own way,
a certain approach to stainglass not to be confused with the
software bearing the same name. Two narrative sequences
with an uncanny and disconcerting flavor which might have
deserved to be better highlighted."

- André RUELLAN April 2004
Province of Haute Normandie Seine Maritime BARENTIN
( 76360) (zip code)
From 5/8/04 to 5/16/04
" Louis Runemberg is a young painter from the northern part
of Normandy as imaginative as he is gifted. He masters his
craft with gusto and dedicates himself as much to research
work in pictorial art as to the emotions felt by one who is
under the spell of the uncanny and of the discovery of novel
techniques.We have only to mention his new concept
"Windows Art" which he will be expounding in Barentin in
hall André Siegfried.
Private showing scheduled on May 7, 18h30 ( 6 30pm).
Please note that a coverage on Louis Runemberg will be aired
on TV channel 5 on May 4, at 8h 45 ( 8 45 am) and on cable
TV at 21h ( 9 pm).
The artist will be talking about his life,artistic world and of
course" Windows Art" and the different stages of elaboration."

Peinture contemporaine ( Contemporary painting )

" The department of culture in Barentin is getting everything
set for its traditional exhibition on contemporary painting
which will be shown to the publc in hall Siegfried as of the
following week in May : Sat 8 th to Sun 16th.
Amid the artists invited for this 2004 show: Louis Runemberg
who, as a painter and sculptor, born in 1969 enters the
school of Les Beaux Arts in Rouen at the age of 15 under
the leadership of F Lagis. At age 18, Louis Runemberg enters
the Academy of painting of Les Beaux Arts in Rouen under
the leadership of Christian Sauvé. He studies modelling
in Armelle Normand's workshop and becomes a painter of
the Armada in 1999.
During the exhibition the painter will introduce his new concept
" Windows Art".
In point of fact, there is a news coverage devoted to him
which will be aired today, Monday May 4 on channel 5 at
8 h50 ( 8h 50 am) on the French show " Les Maternelles".

The Concept of " WINDOWS ART" by Louis RUNEMBERG

The concept draws its inspiration from the stain-glass windows
in cathedrals and the windows of our modern-day buildings
throbbing with activity as when night time comes through the
play of light and by scenes from ordinary life.
The idea also rests on Cezanne's sentence " the richer the
color, the fuller the form" which becomes " the fuller the outline,
the richer the color " ( Louis Runemberg).
" And this sentence becomes something of a magic formula
and so I decide to give it my own interpretation through
Windows. The black line highlights the color while delineating
it or accentuating it...".

The concept Windows Art is also meant to be a response to
the evolution of our thoughts and moods.
" After having studied painting at the Beaux Arts for several
years, I realize that we tire of the images on paintings.
There comes a time when we saturate, when the image no
longer brings us anything because it has been absorbed by
our moods. So that is when the idea occurs to place several
images side by side on one and the same canvas to tone
down the cloying effect for several images bring a greater set
of responses to our moods than just one.

And then ... Windows. " They are the images of my unconscious
self which I work with using oil-painting. It is first and foremost
painting by instinct, driven by the unconscious self; a sort of
haziness which is then moulded into shape by careful, delibe-
rate delineation. And Windows Art combines these two
psychological states".