Patrick PLEUTIN aka BANGALA (born 1965) Radish Gouache on cardboard 60 X 80 cm Patrick Pleutin aka Bangala mainly paints from live performances, but is also keen to link his pictorial practice with other disciplines. A regular contributor to Le Monde's M magazine, he has over the years created a poetic cartography of taste and gesture, from the markets of Analakely, Madagascar, to the roads of Afghanistan's Bâmiyân valley. The artist also worked with Yona Friedman, who designed a Museum without a building to preserve for the future the richness of Afghanistan's artistic heritage, weakened by years of war. He shared his drawing, painting and calligraphy skills with boys and girls from the Fine Arts department of Kabul University, during an artist residency at the Kabul National Archives Museum, followed by a number of animated films. Bangala and agnès b. Bangala, freshly graduated from the Ecole Supérieure Estienne (Ecole du Design de Livre et du Dessin de Presse), exhibits a painted book at the Galerie du Jour agnès b. In 1987, agnès b. offers Bangala a first exhibition in homage to Saul Steinberg: Morsures. This was followed by numerous solo and group exhibitions in collaboration with galerie du jour and the agnès b. collection: Objets trouvés d'artistes, Un regard sur l'art contemporain, Collection agnès b, Espace des arts Chalon sur Saône The works currently on show at FAB are the fruit of their collaboration and form part of the agnès b. collection: LA PEINTURE FIGURATIVE CONTEMPORAINE DANS LA COLLECTION AGNES B.