Jean Claracq

Jean Claracq brings the past forward via savvy remarks on the culture industry of the 21st century. Claracq’s paintings exploit, in the most delicate and refined form, the language of advertisement and social media to construct desire, fascination, and lust. With eclectic references that range from medieval paintings to elements of contemporary pop culture, a dystopian view of the joie de vivre unveils a new alternative to the divine perception of the world. Propaganda, his most monumental work until now, consolidates ambiguities of joy and angst in a white architectural model with five embedded paintings - the occasion for yet another of his play on depth and mise en abyme.