Description
Jean Charles Blais, born October 22, 1956 in Nantes
Since the early 1980s Jean-Charles Blais studied the work of the Nouveaux Réalistes, Pop-Art and Arte Povera of Mario Merz, especially the works of the socalled “affiches arrachées”, which had a fundamental influence on Blais’ work. This work, which is determined by the choice of material used to carry the picture, marked his departure to a new kind of painting.
Based on torn-off advertising posters which are then stuck on top of each other in multiple layers, Jean-Charles Blais developed a pictorial language, that was less interested in the surface of the two-dimensionally formulated message and more concerned with the space articulated “behind” the surface. The multilayered nature of the material and the view to the incidental edges and creases create associative structures. On their basis Jean-Charles Blais created representational motifs and figurative elements.
Thanks to numerous solo exhibitions in France and later also in Germany and the USA, Jean-Charles Blais’ works became known to a larger audience during the eighties. His first large-scale work in a public space attracted a great deal of attention in 1990: Jean-Charles Blais was commissioned to design the Paris Metro station “Assemblée Nationale”.
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