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

39th volume: Dongguan, my father's hometown, published 19/09/2024

 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

2015 retrospective 1983-2015

an experiment : a new platform for exhibition of works-
on June 24 2015, a retrospective was held for few hours in my garden in Rome by inviting no audience, yet a short video was made on it, in an attempt of inviting future audience by creating new platforms

2002 December a performance

Elliot Lake, Ontario
White Mountain Academy of the Arts
a performance was held as the second part of the works inspired by the poem of Li Ching-chao ( 1084-? )
this work is composed of three panels measured 60x180cm each approximately - donated to Art Gallery of Algoma, Ontario, Canada

2000 a performance

Villa Romana, Florence
after a one month residency, a performance was held at the Villa, reciting the painted poem of Li Ching-chao, ( slow sad tune, first part )

selected solo exhibitions

Infinite Space, held in the garden where I used to stay, in the centre of Florence, where Lorenzo di Medici used to spend leisure time

Infinite Space, held in the garden where I used to stay, in the centre of Florence, where Lorenzo di Medici used to spend leisure time

2021 A restrospective 1983-2017 on my website : bernadetteleepisapi.it since 28/04/2021

2021 Digital Space on my website : bernadetteleepisapia.it from 24/04/2021

2015 24th June retrospective for one day, Villa Bernadette, Castelnuovo di Porto

2002  December A performance, White Mountain Academy, dipinti recitati II

2000 A performance, Villa Romana, dipinti recitati I


1997 Recited pictures-A performance

artist's own living space and surrounding area

Via delle Campora, Florence

1995 Lucky animals

Libreria Franco Maria Ricci, Florence

1995 Our friends the wild boars in Maremma

Comune di Suvereto

1995 The Silk Road

Queen's Hall Art Gallery, Northumberland, U.K

1995 Birds from the Orient  

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Florence branch 

1993 Big works, non sellable works

Stazione Statuto, Compagnia del Paiolo, Florence

1993 Fung On- Il loto e la seta

Lexis, Florence

1992 our friends the wild boars

Artist's studio at Casa 7 Torre a Cona, San Donato in Collina, Florence

1989 The Silk Road

Lexis, Florence

1988 Infinite Space

Artist's living space in Florence, in the garden of Via Laura, where Lorenzo di Medici used to spend  leisure time

1987 Shi Hua, Hua Shi

Lexis, Florence

1986 Ubriaco di Bianco

Lexis, Florence

1985 Chinese mountains

Lexis, Florence

1983 Chinese fans and seashells

Calton Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

 

selected group exhibitions

most paintings were inspired by old Chinese poems, though some were inspired by poems written by friends, or sometimes, by myself - it was my constant attempt to introduce at least one oriental elememt in the works, be it oriental poem as source of inspiration, or oriental calligraphy as form, or as brushworks, or as spiritual force, or as ideas in order to give an insight different from one who is inspired by orientalism yet rooted in western roots. As an oriental with oriental roots, yet takes inspiration from the Orient not from a western ground, yet expressed in western terms in order for a continued linkage of western -eastern pictorial dialogue to develop

most paintings were inspired by old Chinese poems, though some were inspired by poems written by friends, or sometimes, by myself
- it was my constant attempt to introduce at least one oriental elememt in the works, be it oriental poem as source of inspiration, or oriental calligraphy as form, or as brushworks, or as spiritual force, or as ideas in order to give an insight different from one who is inspired by orientalism yet rooted in western roots. As an oriental with oriental roots, yet takes inspiration from the Orient not from a western ground, yet expressed in western terms in order for a continued linkage of western -eastern pictorial dialogue to develop

1999 in...cubo, virtual museum

piazza Santo Spirito, Florence

1998 Mani mario

chiosrtro, piazza Santo Spirito, Florence

1997 Hong Kong Dream, My Dream

Lions club, Hong Kong

1997 Quiet Night, Poem of Li Po,  80x160 cm 

exhibited from September 97- September 98, Villa Romana, Florence

donated to Villa Romana at the end of the residency, March 2000

1994 Terzo Premio Montevertine per l'incisione

Radda in Chianti, Tuscany

1990 Painters from Italy

Luxor, Egypt

1990 La Collectiva

Pontassieve, Tuscany

1989 La Verna

Chiusi, Tuscany

1989 Trampolini

Spazio Uno, Florence

1989 Expo Arte

Bari, Puglia

1989 Armenia

Piazza Duomo, Florence

1988 Students works from Accademia di belle arti di firenze

Casa Macchiavelli, Florence

1984 students exhibitions

Fortman Studios, Florence

1983 Postgraduate Show

Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

1982 BFA Show

University of Alberta, Canada

 

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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


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