Elder of six children, the engraver and draftsman Jean-Jacques Lecoq was born in Caen in 1940. He is very early passionate about art. In a parallel to his studies, he will follow, as an external candidate and from 1956, a teaching in the School of Fine Arts of Caen.
 The young man has, from this period, a real crush for the engraving.
 Later, he will purchase a press Ledeuil which will follow him all the life.

Become a primary school teacher, he begins his career in the...

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  Elder of six children, the engraver and draftsman Jean-Jacques Lecoq was born in Caen in 1940. He is very early passionate about art. In a parallel to his studies, he will follow, as an external candidate and from 1956, a teaching in the School of Fine Arts of Caen.
 The young man has, from this period, a real crush for the engraving.
 Later, he will purchase a press Ledeuil which will follow him all the life.

  Become a primary school teacher, he begins his career in the education, continuing however to frequent the School of Fine Arts, to engrave and to work the drawing on alive model.

  During more than twenty years, from 1975 till 1987 date in which he retired, Jean-Jacques Lecoq is going to exercise his job by primary school teacher in over-seas. In this school frame, he will specialize as physiotherapist in psychomotricity. He will tavel the Marquesas Islands, Reunion then Martinique, his longest stay. A
bove his work, the artist will share his spare time in family, sail and engraving, the hand there on the helm as on the wheel of his press. H
e engraves on copper, etching, aquatint, burin, mezzotint, engraving, making himself his editions.

  2000 will be the year of return in mainland France, a length travels on a container ship, "La Douce France", with Martinique which goes away slowly to Dunkirk, a thermal and cultural shock!
  The artist settlees down in La Ciotat. He participates then in numerous collective exhibitions (Siac of Marseille, Biennial events of the engraving of Track 2000, exposure 21x21 to « Graver maintenant » in Rueil-Malmaison, the World of the Print of Chamalières, etc).
 He puts a lot into several engravers' associations (Track 2000, The Size and the Pencil, Croqu' Vif) and will expose its prints in Paris, in province and abroad.
  W
hen we spoke to him about engravers, the artist quoted among others Mario Avati, who gave him the desire to discover the mezzotint, Francis Bacon, Otto Dix, Alberto Giacometti, Odilon Redon, René Char mattered so a lot.
  There is a big sensibility and a lot of mystery in the etchings and draws (drawings, feather, ink, lavis) of Jean-Jacques Lecoq.
 Boatmen of soul, smugglers of art and tracks, the engravers make an incision in the matrix-mother who, after inking, will leave a final work: the Print.

  From 2008, Jean-Jacques Lecoq will enter the infernal spiral of the diseases but, almost till the end, his line will not be altered.
  In 2013, in spite of the disease or because of it, he will open, due to the collaboration of Sylvianne Adloff (painter and plastic textile), the studio-gallery "L'Allegria", a space of creativity and exchanges.
  
He left us in La Ciotat in 2014 . . . born in winter under mists, gone in summer under the sun . . .
  S
ince its departure, "L'Allegria" became "L'Allegria sempré" (The enjoyment always), a message of hope, a family associative place in homage to the artist, who aims to be faithful to his initial vocation, a place of human meetings around the art in its diversity.
  

  

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