Bernard Tinivella, Back to the Fold
AN OLD VENU This is not a first for Bernard Tinivella. One booth, he already had one. Several even. A serpette in particular, where it started nearly 30 years ago 6. Since last October, it reopens on this market, left in 2003 but never lost sight of. It is Paul Bert went 4 this time that Bernard Tinivella makes a place. A few heads have changed, but the spirit has remained the same: that of a large family always happy to grow, especially when its elders come back to sit down and set down their suitcases. We welcome him, we tease him, we ask him for advice. And Bernard feels back home.
THE PASSION OF THE GRAND TOUR Globe-trotter and resourceful, Bernard Tinivella has let himself be carried by life and she has returned it well. Merchant in Italy, Nice, Monaco, New York and Paris, the antique dealer has discovered everywhere the most unusual objects such as a traveling guillotine of the County of Nice dated the nineteenth century or a sarcophagus ... with his mummy! For this hunter always in search of history, objects are a testimony of the past. A trace of the vicissitudes of life to keep at home rather than memory to counter the oblivion. These are also memories that he exposes to Paul Bert. Exceptional memories, those brought back by the honest men of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries of their Grand Tour. They went on to admire the wonders of Greco-Roman culture in Italy and Greece, and brought back from their initiatory journey the replicas of the statues of the gods and goddesses of Olympus, whose know-how is today without equal. "Nothing to do with contemporary resin replicas! Exclaims the classicist.
A FREE HUMANIST Like those honest men of the past, Bernard Tinivella has never ceased to discover and learn by uncovering the rare piece that a fortuitous and fortuitous encounter has placed on its way. In love with freedom, he sails from find to find, multiplying exchanges, contacts and handshakes. It is because he relies on his sense of human relations, Bernard Tinivella. He is a lover of the object in what he has most human.
Bernard Tinivella, booth 205, year 4, Paul Bert