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Jean-Charles Blais

Spring Summer

2023

Felt pen on paper

59 × 41 cm

Unique

Location: Paris, France

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About the artwork

Deposited in black and white, these capital letters, drawn with felt-tip pens, demonstrate a certain speed of execution. Sometimes too large, sometimes too narrow, Jean-Charles Blais moves away from school codes to create his own calligraphic standard. Perhaps used as an invitation to the summer 2023 exhibition at the Opera Gallery in Paris, this drawing as work archives the memory.

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A recurring process in his work (FRAC Amiens in 1992, Musée Picasso in Antibes in 2013...), Jean-Charles Blais records and collects the memories of his exhibitions with his own calligraphy.

About the artist

Born in Nantes in 1956, Jean-Charles Blais is a French artist known in the 1980s for his paintings and collages made from recycled advertising posters. He explores various areas of experimentation, notably investing in urban spaces such as the Assemblée Nationale metro station in Paris and the Léonard de Vinci University in La Défense. He has also created set designs for the Régine Chopinot company, designed graphic elements for the Grand Théâtre de Genève, collaborated with architect Jean Nouvel, and is now involved in the creation of digital works. His works are often characterized by simplified human figures, drawn with dynamic shapes and intense colors. Blais explores the contrast between ephemeral and durable elements, playing on the deconstruction and visual recomposition of bodies and spaces.

“"The traces of what this place (the Opera Gallery) once was are still there, the ceilings, the staircases...this allows us to make a labyrinthine hanging, like a kind of kaleidoscope into which we enter and in which each painting is treated on its own".”

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