BERNADETTE , known as
Bernadette Kam Fu LEE
as well as Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA , A FINE ARTIST and a Self-published author
Art , not for sale except for prints and artist books solely handled by Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi.( previously known as Mavida)
Bernadette does not sell her pieces since her retrospective in Florence ( 1983-1993, Grande Quadri. Quadri Invendibili)
whoever sells you works by Bernadette after that date could be of stolen pieces.
Kindly inform Bernadette via email: leekamfubernadette@pec.it
Bernadette’s diary-
37th book on Apple Books for free reading:
The dream of the whispering breeze ( The breeze of the whispering dreams)
10/06/2024
ISBN 978-988-70365-2-4
5 August 2024 is a video I realised on ' My trip to Venice' which covers the Venice Biennale 2024 -" Foreigners everywhere'- and the exhibition on De Kooning L'talia ( Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia)
photos 40 years later:
with Padre Gianni in Dec 1983, Hong Kong
with Don Italo. Mazzano Romano, Oct 2023
on Apple Books
for free reading
under author:
Last name: LEE-PISAPIA
first name: Kam Fu Bernadette
LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette or LEE Kam Fu Bernadette
( order of name used in Hong Kong and Italy
alias
Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA ( alias Kam Fu Bernadette LEE PISAPIA)
(order of name used in Britain, Canada )
alias
Bernadette Kam Fu LEE ( maiden name)(artist name)
LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette
(order and form ( with a comma in between ) generally used in Hong Kong to distinguish
last name from first name)
Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA
(order generally used in Britain and Canada )
penname: Bernadette K. Pisapia, Kam Fu Pisapia, Lee-Pisapia Kam Fu Bernadette
Bernadette is the writer as well as the publisher
the name chosen for the publisher ( not a registered company ) has two
formats:
LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette ( Hong Kong format), or LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette ( Italian format) . Therefore, the comma in between does not mean two distinct individuals as it is used to distinguish the last name and the first name in the Hong Kong format. For the other format, capital letter has been used to indicate the LAST NAME from the first name.
( from 06/09/2023, the Italain format is officially transformed to LEE Kam Fu Bernadette coniugata PISAPIA . However, the fully extended writing of my hyphenated Last Name is still maintained as my Canadian and Hong Kong identity : Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA)
NOTE:
email : ahfu@bernadetteleepisapia.it has previously been compromised and therefore please use the email:
kamfubernadette@icloud.com or leekamfubernadette@gmail.com to contact me.
Thank you.
Bernadette
05/05/2023
Hong Kong
student name used in Italy:
LI (last name)
Kam Fu Bernadette ( first name)
videos Per Padre Gianni can be viewed on my other website:www.bernadetteleepisapia.it especially realised by Bernadette for the family of Padre Gianni in Mazzano Romano and Capranica, Italy, thanking them for their hospitality
Chinese mountains
First time when I painted Chinese mountains
I was a teenager
the teacher said
copy my painting
I was at the front row
copying in ink and brush
was no difficult task
because I was good at Chinese calligraphy
especially in the way of holding the brush
twist and turn
twist and turn
with my wrist
the picture was finished
the painting
my copy
did not satisfy me
it looked too much like the one of my teacher
who in turned copied her teacher's
it also looked just like Rocks
enlarged and unreal
they were not mountains
I stopped painting
Chinese kind of mountains
after that short painting course I chose to take
after school
In search for good painting courses
I knew not where to seek
back in the old days
in Hong Kong
so I bought myself some drawing lectures
by someone who explained
how Leonardo da vinci drew
then I began to draw
without realising those mountains
by Leonardo were real
in Chinese essence
Years later when I was no longer a teenager
I flew to Guilin by chance
because it was an affordable trip for a student
to spend a Christmas break
it was my first trip to China
there
those Chinese mountains
looking just like gigantic rocks
so much fun
those Chinese mountains
like contemporary sculptures
I began hating less then
the first attempt Chinese ink painting experience
There must be a real reason, perhaps,
why chinese paintings show the empty space
those Guilin mountains
are real only when
seen
in between the fog
in between the fogginess
a reality
a dream
a reality and a dream
becoming one
Form and shadow
past and present
intertwine
I did not realse until then
those mountains
were
actually understood
by
Leonardo
in the sense
of an essence
exemplified in an atmosphere
and in an atmosphere
one breathes
in an air
that penetrates
space
in a manner
different
from
a stationed
mind
it is like breathing
a pulsation
is seen
in a mark
another mark
in a tone
another tone
all put together
in an atmospheric realm
he knew not Chinese brush
though Chinese brush
is the only brush
that breathes
without
hesitation
as if
it is born
with no mind
like a new born baby
emptiness
at heart
creative
in its essence
Life
a giving force
realised
in the breathing of no mind
of a child
embodied through the
Chinese spiritual brush
A painter of Chinese brush
all that he learns
throughout his struggled years
is to
relearn
the single moment
of that Chinese brush of no self
that very moment
when he was given so much
that he breathes
only
thankfulness
like the baby
who thanks his mother
so much
so
that
he
breathes
( chinese mountains were painted after 1984, the first trip to China. From sketches came a series of colorful mountains, then turned white subsequently. Empty space was a constant theme, together with the use of spontaneous brushworks in order to bring out the essence of the flowing images in continuation while one is riding on the boat upon River Li. Screen paintings came as a natural consequence - to illustrate the various viewpoints in flexibility . Most panels here could be mix matched, like visions in real life , could be selected . These mountain images were done mainly between 1984-1989 , the period when I was a student at the Academy of Florence, Italy )
37th book: The dream of the whispering breeze ( The breeze of whispering dreams )
on Apple Books 10/06/2024
ISBN 978-988-70365-2-4