Clément Bedel: final glimmer, first breath

Clément Bedel (b. 1993, Strasbourg) is a French painter based in Vienna, Austria. After completing a Master’s degree in 2017 at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy, where he studied under Nina Childress, he went on to continue his training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he lived and worked from 2016 to 2020.

In his exhibition final glimmer, first breath at Galerie Kandlhofer, Bedel presents works that open up hybrid visual worlds and capture moments suspended between collapse and rebirth. His vibrant, incisive works depict a world in flux, where the resilience of nature challenges the notion of extinction.

Streams of intense colour, often symbolic of pollution, merge with plants, trees, and brutalist structures caught in perpetual transformation. These multi-metabolic scenes disrupt conventional notions of linear time, resonating with Timothy Morton’s concept of hyper-objects - entities so vast in scale and duration that they elude ordinary perception.