Sans titre

Jean-Luc Blanc

Sans titre, 199732 x 24cmSign in to view price
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pencil on paperGalerie Art : Concept
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The artwork presents a haunting black-and-white portrait of a young girl peering through a set of bars. The stark contrast and striking chiaroscuro lighting create a somber, moody atmosphere, highlighting the subject's intense gaze and unsettling expression. The composition focuses on the girl's face, capturing her piercing eyes and unsettling smile, suggesting a sense of confinement, vulnerability, or distress. The high-contrast technique and dramatic lighting evoke a gothic, psychological tension, inviting the viewer to ponder the subject's emotional state and the potential narrative behind the image. The artwork speaks to themes of confinement, the human condition, and the complexities of the human psyche. ...

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Jean-Luc Blanc
Artist
Jean-Luc Blanc
B.1965, French

Jean-Luc Blanc was born in 1965 in Nice. He lives and works in Paris. The matrix of Jean-Luc Blanc’s artistic project is articulated around an unalterable procedure that gives his works their ambiguous character. Like his drawings, the paintings he has made since the year 2000 are based on a practice of reappropriation. First, the artist collects a corpus of images found from different visual sources (cinema, magazines, press articles, postcards, adverts or lately Serge Diakonoff’s face paintings). He then repaints these patterns on a large canvas by isolating them. Much as Picabia remained faithful to the photographs from which he was inspired, J.-L. Blanc reloads and re-presents them: “My passion leads me to these already established images that I then organize in a very disparate way to find them another breath, another voice.” The cinematographic aspect of his works allows him to create his own language: like a filmmaker, he reframes his subjects, most often in a close-up. For example, the portrait of a young man in a turtleneck jumper from an advertisement for a bank in the 1970s is completely reworked to give it an atmosphere other than that of the original image. By adding dark circles to the face of this man, the painter gives him a vampiric dimension, referring, among other things, to the aesthetics of German Expressionist films. In this way, the canvases act on the viewer just as J.-L. Blanc needs the images to act upon him. These are first and foremost gazes – we could almost say camera-gazes – that call out to us and fix us. So close and yet so far… J.L. Blanc’s work highlights the tension between a perfectly mastered technique and the enigmatic character that this representation sends back to the viewer. But don’t we recognize images we have already seen, even if we can’t manage to clearly identify them? The apparent simplicity of the sketches and the banality of the people in his portraits do not capture the long process of maturing that brought them to life. Elsewhere, an indescribable universe conveys another meaning whose traces are parsimoniously revealed. These scattered elements of fiction progressively build up a set of troublingly charismatic characters who reveal a strange banality. In J.-L. Blanc there is thus a “secret to reveal behind each image”. And it’s up to the viewer to let themselves get carried away in the mind and language games. ...

Jean-Luc Blanc: Artworks
Fireman
Jean-Luc Blanc
Fireman, 2020
200.02 x 200.02 x 5.08cm
La narratrice
Jean-Luc Blanc
La narratrice, 2020
194.94 x 114cm
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Jean-Luc Blanc
Bouvard et Pécuchet, 2019
80.01 x 100.03cm
Tell me more
Jean-Luc Blanc
Tell me more, 2013
40.01 x 29.84cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 2000
41.91 x 29.84cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 1997
32 x 24cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 2002
73 x 54cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 2006
200 x 200cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 2007
42 x 30cm
Sans titre
Jean-Luc Blanc
Sans titre, 2022
100 x 100cm
Galerie Art : Concept
Gallery
Galerie Art : Concept
Paris

To avoid any narcissism the gallery will not bear a name, but instead mark of the end of a century during which the Fine Arts are exhausted of unknown practices and forms, Art: Concept was born. In 1997, the gallery joined its friends in the 13th district of Paris to be part of the adventure of the brand new rue Louise Weiss. Despite unforgettable years in this district, the move to the Marais was inevitable. Today, the gallery is located in a private passage (passage Sainte Avoye) and represents artists with whom it has been working for 25 years as well as young graduates. Trying to reflect the evolution of society, the gallery emphasises its proposals in a multi-faceted reflection on individuality and collectivity in a wide range of contexts. Like Janus, it looks both to the past and the future. Today's world is so in need of reference points that it's reassuring to invent a future, thanks to artists, as well as to compare it to the past. We invite you to ask for it, we will be at the gallery, very happy to explain it to you. ...

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