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Jean-Luc Blanc, Lasagne \u00e0 volont\u00e9, 2023, Huile sur toile \/ Oil on canvas. 81 \u00d7 60 \u00d7 2,5 cm (31 \u215e \u00d7 23 \u215d \u00d7 1 inches). Courtesy the Artists and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hedy, 2022
Huile sur toile \/ Oil on canvas
195 \u00d7 130 cm (76 \u00be \u00d7 51 \u215b inches)
Photo Salim Santa-Lucia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kirchgasse Gallery, Didactic Poetry, Installation View, 2023 \/ Photo: Cedric Mussano \/ Courtesy: The artist and Kirchgasse Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d\u2019exposition \/ Installation view Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm
Photo: Mick Vincenz, 2022 \u00a9 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d\u2019exposition \/ Installation view Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm
Photo: Mick Vincenz, 2022 \u00a9 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue de 40 ans du Frac ! Exposition Gunaike\u00eeon, Frac \u00cele-de-France, Les R\u00e9serves, Romainville \u00a9 Martin Argyroglo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jean-Luc Blanc, Miranda, 2012, Huile sur toile, 200 \u00d7 200 cm \/ Oil on canvas. Collection MAC VAL \u2013 Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Vue de l\u2019exposition de la collection \u00ab \u00c0 mains nues \u00bb, MAC VAL 2022-2023. Photo \u00a9 Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jeanne Angkor, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 1\/4 in. Photo: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Children Power, Les R\u00e9serves, frac \u00eele-de-france \u00a9 Martin Argyroglo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fireman, 2020, Oil on canvas, 78 3\/4 x 78 3\/4 x 2 in. Photo: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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La narratrice, 2020, Oil on canvas, 76 3\/4 x 44 7\/8 in. Photo: Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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La folie rouge, 2020, Oil on canvas,
78 3\/4 x 55 1\/8 in. Photo: Romain Darnaud. Private collection Paris\/FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Futur, ancien, fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, 2019-2020. Photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Futur, ancien, fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, 2019-2020. Photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosemary, 2019. Oil on canvas, 78 3\/4 x 78 3\/4 in. Private collection (Paris). Photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nora Miralda, 2019. Oil on canvas, 78 3\/4 x 78 3\/4 in. Private collection (Paris). Photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bouvard et P\u00e9cuchet, 2019. Oil on canvas, 31 1\/2 x 39 3\/8 in. Photo: Margot Montigny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Les Femmes de trente ans, 2015, galerie Art : Concept. Photo: Dorine Potel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Long time ago while I was waiting Mum, 2013. Pencil on paper, 15 3\/4 x 11 3\/4 in. Photo Edouard Fraipont<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tell me more, 2013. Pencil on paper, 15 3\/4 x 11 3\/4 in. Photo Edouard Fraipon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Butcher Karma or Tudo Bom, 2013. Pencil on paper, 15 3\/4 x 11 3\/4 in. Photo Edouard Fraipon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Le Rite (1), 2011. Pencil on paper, 11 3\/4 x 16 1\/2 in. Photo: Dorine Potel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre, 2001. Mixed media, 11 3\/4 x 16 1\/2 in. Photo: D. L’Honorey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scanner, 1998. Pencil on paper, 16 1\/2 x 11 3\/4 in. Photo: Dorine Potel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre, 1997. Pencil on paper, 12 5\/8 x 9 1\/2 in. 15 3\/4 x 12 5\/8 in. framed, photo: Fabrice Gousset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled, 1996. Pencils on paper, polyptych of 13 drawings, 16 1\/2 x 11 3\/4 in. each<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre (Marseille), 1994, pencil on paper, polyptych of 20 16 1\/2 x 11 3\/4 in. each<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Luc Blanc was born in 1965 in Nice. He lives and works in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.L. Blanc\u2019s work highlights the tension between a perfectly mastered technique and the enigmatic character that this representation sends back to the viewer. But don\u2019t we recognize images we have already seen, even if we can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist presented several large scale paintings and drawings in the exhibition ‘Future, Former, Fugitive’ at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019-2020). In 2018,he presented his work in the exhibition ‘Divided We Stand’ for the Busan Biennale in South Korea and in 2009 the CAPC Bordeaux gave him a ‘carte blanche’ for his Opera Rock. In 2004, his work was shown at the MAMCO Geneva. He recently participated in the exhibitions DUST : The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Mill\u00e9niales. Peintures 2000 \u2013 2020, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine M\u00c9CA, Bordeaux (2020); Michael On The Wall, Grand Palais, Paris (2018); The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2014); L\u2019Heure des Sorci\u00e8res, Le Quartier, Quimper; Ple\u0301iades, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (2013); L\u2019Arbre de Vie, Le Colle\u0300ge des Bernardins, Paris (2013); et Socie\u0301te\u0301s Secre\u0300tes, CAPC, Bordeaux (2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is part of numerous public collections among which: Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne de Paris; MAC VAL – Mus\u00e9e d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne; MAMCO, Geneva ; Fonds National d\u2019Art Contemporain, Paris ; FRAC Artoth\u00e8que Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges; FRAC Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, Villeurbanne; FRAC Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, Marseille ; FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-l\u00e8s-Rouen; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; Domaine d\u00e9partemental de Chamarande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n