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Jean-Charles Blais
"The figures I paint are no longer people … The bodies have become morcels of paint."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Notes of biography
Jean-Charles Blais is born in Nantes in 1956, he lives and works in Paris. Blais studies (1974-79) to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. In 1981, he takes part to the exhibition organized by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel ("To finish in style") which is the birth of the movement : the free Figuration. The artist’s paintings, etchings and drawings are now internationally promoted.
His first solo exhibition is organized in 1982 and his works are exhibited in France (Bordeaux, Paris...) and abroad (Rome, Amsterdam, London, Basel, New York...). In the early 80’s, the artist paints mostly on the backs of posters recovered in the street or the subway; we can see in his paintings characters enlarged to monumental. Blais’paintings hides neither affiliations neither traditions, in which it is part. Very quickly, Blais change his ways: the characters becoming outlined, mysterious, "simple" back silhouettes, strange and sensual shadows, faces in black shadow, we will never know anything. "I paint figures that are no longer people, but objects" he says. Jean-Charles Blais realized paintings in the metro station "Assemblée Nationale".
He approaches sculpture in the 90’s and took up again his painting on posters. Blais multiplies experiments. In the early 2000, he created numerical tables.
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The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « Jean-Charles Blais » CAPC, Bordeaux, 1984
- « Jean-Charles Blais : Estampes, 1983-86 », Philippe Piguet, M.A.M. de Toulouse,
- « Jean-Charles Blais », Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1987
- « Jean-Charles Blais - Zeichnungen - Dessins », cat. d'expo., Ed. Galerie Buchma
- « Jean-Charles Blais, Le coup de Tanger », Xavier Girard, Ed. Yvon Lambert, 1989
- « Jean-Charles Blais. Tilimbom », Ed. Galerie Buchmann, 1989
- « Jean-Charles Blais - Affiches arrachées », Felix Buchmann, Ed. Cantz, 1990
- « Blais » Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, 1992
- « Jean-Charles Blais », AFAA, Paris, 1994
- « Jean-Charles Blais », Jean-Louis Andral, cat. d'expo., Ed. Skira Flammarion, 2013
To read from the artist :
- « Miracle », Jean-Charles Blais, Analogues, Arles, 2004
- « B. Bonello - J.-C. Blais : Correspondance », Doubles, semaine no16, Ed. Analogue, 2004
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Stamp by Jean-Charles Blais
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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