Jacques Charrier.
Jacques Charrier started his career as an artist in the 50s.
He studied painting and ceramics in the Beaux Arts, together with drama in the Centre d’Art Dramatique de Paris.
He played on stage and in films directed by M Carné, C. Chabrol…….
Then, he created his own production firm and produced a few feature films.
At the beginning of the 80s , he devotes himself to his passion for painting.
Colourful, abstract and very elaborated his work will get rid of artifice and become more intimate, putting in the origins of humanity like his
Hammurabi series of 282 paintings inspired from the most famous legal text of Antiquity.
The painter travels a lot, is very interested in ancient or primitive civilizations and he brings back photos and souvenirs of Africa and the Eathern World.
Every trip back to his studio is the starting point of a new painting adventure.
Discret and spiritual, ridding himself of all superfluous language, Jacques Charrier’s work articulates itself in history and humanism and searches into the
unfathomable intimacy of the human being.
Personnal Exhibitions :
1992 Europ’Art, Genève.
1993 Galerie Carpentier, Paris Vll.
1994 Art Festival San Francisco, USA.
1995 Galerie Ferrero, Nice.
1996 UNESCO, pour le 50eme anniversaire de l’organisation internationale.
1998 Mairie de Paris V.
2001 Galerie Selmersheim, Paris lV.
2003 Galerie Colas, Paris IV.
2004 Galerie La Hune, Paris Vl.
2005 Mairie de Paris Vlll.
2006 Fondation Prabhakar, Miami, Floride.
2008 Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris.
2009 Musée de l’erotisme, Paris XVlll.
2010 Galerie Artiste en Lumière, Paris XVl.
2010 Mairie de Paris V.
2011 Salle de Cercle, Seillans
2012 Archives Yves Klein
2013 Halles de Saint Briac sur Mer
