- PRESENTATION
- SELECTION OF WORKS
- BIOGRAPHY
- EXTERNAL DOCUMENTATION
- EXHIBITION AT THE GALLERY
- PRESS RELEASES
From his distant and ephemeral engagement as a clown in a traveling circus, Jacques Flèchemuller has saved in his impertinent and shifted painting, the art of the pirouette and the nose-thumbing. In other words, a smile and a casualness; a way to save appearances and to better cut through the illusory shell of a certain world. But if jubilation is the order of the day here, the luscious blondes he plants in a very glamorous campaign for a glossy calendar, one in a Chanel suit next to her horse, the other abandoned in an armchair against the backdrop of “Little House on the Prairie”, or this disturbing chimpanzee, in an elegant pipe smoker and with an all too human look, all remind us that the frontier between human and animal is tenuous, that you can’t teach an old monkey… Even when this Monegasque “by accident” paints Rainier with shirt sleeves rolled up and primates frolicking on his shoulders.
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Revealed in 1981 in Paris by the Jeanne Bucher gallery, today divided between Brooklyn and the Ardèche, the artist is inspired by the 50’s to express with tenderness the emptiness he feels in a world that is too polished, too conventional. The smile then tightens, a puff of anguish insinuates itself in the hollow of the so serene illustration. We would like to see proof of this passion for “Les Pieds Nickelés”, this comic book which at a time “bien-pensant” liberated the word of the comic strip, even if it was at the price of some bends to morality. And it is by borrowing the costume of Ribouldingue, the famous bearded man of the trio or the skeleton of Croquignol that he revisits some great masters such as Velasquez or Goya – in particular a drawing of Saturn-Ribouldingue devouring his children “borrowed” from the Spanish master – and pays them homage through derision. On the ice, a penguin can run on roller skates, a baby with a bottle balanced on his stomach can pretend to ignore that above his head black ink is dripping from a sentence whose characters strongly resemble oriental signs, the comicality of the situation makes us smile, the laughter remains in the back of our throat.
The sailor’s promise, 2015
Gouache on paper mounted on wood, 31 x 23 cm
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Ms. Lautrec at the beach, 2015
Charcoal on paper, 50 x 65 cm
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Norman Scene, 2015
Oil on canvas, 168 x 142 cm
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, Poulain, 2015
Gouache on cardboard, 20 x 15 cm
JACQUES FLECHEMULLER
Born in Monaco, 1945
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Ardeche, France
Personal exhibitions (selection)
2012
Me, myself and i” Maison de la culture, Montmorency ( 95)
Art fair, San Francisco. CA
2010
“BEYOND THE FENCE,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2009
“The Martini Girls,” Galerie Keller, Paris, France
2008
“Nothing But the Truth,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“Postcards from Brooklyn,” Varfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007
“Monkey Business,” La Galerie Keller, Paris, France
2006
“Gone Fishing,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2005
“Tutti Frutti,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2003
“Jacques Flechemuller,” Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
2001
“Call My Mom,” Gracie Mansion, New York
1999
“Back to Square One,” Gracie Mansion, New York
1998
“Secret Battle Plans,” PDX Gallery, Portland, OR
Re-painting, Marseilles, France
Athisma Gallery, Lyon, France
Thea Westreich, New York
1997
Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Political Book Day,” UNESCO, Paris
Radiation therapy center, Nice
Jan Baum Gallery, “Absolute L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational”, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Athisma Gallery, Lyon, France
Basel Art Fair, Triebold Gallery, Switzerland
1995
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1994
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Raph Debarrn Gallery, Paris, France
Raph Debarrn Gallery, Nice, France
1993
“Typhoid Series, Soho Medical, New York
“Don’t Tell MY Mother”, Galerie de la Pleau, Toulouse, France
Athisma Gallery, Lyon, France
1992
“Glyphs, Recent Paintings”, Jamison Thomas Gallery
1991
“A Few Bombs”, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York
She Said Yes”, Athisma Gallery, Lyon, France
1990
“Four Paintings”, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York
Maison de Verre, Paris, France
“I Love Alan Ladd”, Jamison Thomas, New York
1989
“Introductions”, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York
“Recent Work”, Jamison Thomas, Portland, Oregon
1988
“Recent Work”, Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California
1987
“Overview”, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
“Recent Work”, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1986
“New Paintings”, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
“L’Etroit Jour”, Maison de Verre, Paris, France
1985
“Introduction, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1984
“Recent Work”, Sag Harbor Art Gallery, New York
1981
Jeanne Bucher Gallery, Paris, France
1979
Cultureel Centrum of Amsterdam-Amstelveen, Holland
1977
Eendt Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
1976
Gallery 92, Ostersund, Sweden
1973 – 74
L’Atelier Jacob, Paris, France
Yvy Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Group exhibitions (selection)
2011
“2011,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2010
“Ten Years Hunting – [Part Three],” The Trophy Room, Parker’s Box, New York, NY
“The Secret Language of Animals,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2009
“Childhood,” Keller Gallery, Paris, France
2008
“Open your eyes,” Galerie Kellre, Paris, France
Hungarian Institute of Paris, Paris, France
2005
“Next,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2003
Schroeder Romero Gallery Brooklyn NY
Parkers Box, Armory Show
2002
Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC
2000
“Physical Manifestations,” PDX, Portland, OR
1999
Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC
FIAC, Editions Eric Linard, Paris, France
“Seeing Money, Public Venue, Portland, Oregon
“Changing Face, Jim Kempner Fine Arts, NYC
1998
Thea Westreich, NYC
1997
Annina Nosei, NYC
Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
French Connection, Triangle Workshop, NYC
Tohu Bohu Gallery, Marseille, France
“Gallery Artists,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1996
Annina Nosei, NYC
1995
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1994
Two-man show, Janco Dada Museum, Hof-Hacarmel, Israel
“Plis d’Excellence”, Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1993
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1990
“Facteur d’art”, Musee de la poste, Paris, France
L.A. Contemporary Art Fair, Jamison Thomas, New York
“Art of the Triptych”, Jamison Thomas, New York
1988
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1987
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
“Call of the Wild”, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island
1986
“Stay Tuned”, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1985
4 Artists: Botts, Flechemuller, Gompertz, Oppenheim, Inaugural Show,
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
“Drawings and Sculpture”, Manhattan Art, New York
1984
“Five French Artists in New York”, Embassy of France, New York
1983
GFH Annual Exhibition, New York
1978-82
Jeanne Bucheer Gallery, Paris, France
1978
“The Whale”, The CRACAP, Chalon-sur-Saone, Paris
1977
Kites, “images for the sky”, Autumn Festival, Paris, France
1975
Salon de Mai, Paris, France
“Grafik aus Paris, 4 Artists: Max Ernst, Flechemuller, Matta and Bram van Velde”, Musee de Worpswede, Bremen FRG
1973-74
Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
1970
“The Venus de Milo or the dangers of celebrity”, Musee d’art Moderne, Brussels, Belgium
Public collections (selection)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Worpswede, Breme,Germany
Museum of Art Hors les Norms, Dicy, France
Museum of Rural Creation, Chalon, France
Musee de la Poste, Paris France
FNAC, Museum of Modern Art, Paris France
Janco Dada Museum, Hof-Hacarmel, Israel
Harvard Law School Museum
Publications (selection)
2010
Collier, Patrick. “The Often Monochromatic, Sometimes Off-Color World of Jacques Flechemuller at
PDX Contemporary.” PORT, Oct. 25, 2010.
Schemmerer, Richard. “Interview with Jacques Flechemuller about his show at PDX Contemporary Art Gallery titled ‘Beyond the Fence’.” ArC: Art & Concept, Oct. 25, 2010.
Adams, Anne. “October Gallery Pick: Jacques Flechemuller – Beyond the Fence.” Culturphile: Portland Arts, Portland Monthly, Oct. 7, 2010.
2009
“Laughter Stuck at the Back of the Throat.” Les amis de Cimaise.fr, September 30, 2009.
2008
“Art, fly fishing & anarchy! An interview with the painter Flechemuller.” This is Fly, December 2008.
“You Need Art.” photo credit, Portland Monthly Magazine, March 2008.
2007
“Arrowmuller is back: Monkey Business.” Artension, September-October 2007.
2006
Row, D.K. “Shows of note: Jacques Flechemuller.” The Oregonian, October 20, 2006.
2005
Henderson, Harvest. “Like a joke you can’t explain…” Visual Arts, The Oregonian, April 15th, 2005.
“Jacques Flechemuller, Tutti Frutti.” the nw drizzle, 2005.
2004
“Jacques Flechemuller: Sophie at Night.” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2004.
2003
Maine, Stephen. “Dateline Brooklyn.” Reviews, artnet.com, Dec. 19, 2003.
1986
Vellay, Marc. “Elsewhere.” Midatlantic, November 1986.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Ardeche, France
CV
School of Fine Arts of Paris, France
School of Applied Arts, Paris, France
Personal website:
Terrifying statistics
Philippe Jusforgues, Gérald Panighi,
Gregory Forstner, Jacques Flèchemuller
Exhibition from June 16 to August 1
Opening on June 13, 2015
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