Jean-Pierre FORMICA (born 1946) untitled 31-07-20 Watercolor - Lot 31

Jean-Pierre FORMICA (born 1946) untitled 31-07-20 Watercolor on canson paper 29 x 34 cm Work sold with certificate of authenticity. Born in 1946 in Uchaud, Gard, Jean-Pierre Formica divides his time and work between Arles and Paris. A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Montpellier and Nîmes, he taught for 35 years at the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture du Val de Seine. His work has been exhibited at the Chapelle des Jésuites in Nîmes, the Musée des Oudayat in Fort de France, the Musée de Toulon, the Musée de Montbéliard and the Institut français in Tel Aviv. From the 2000s onwards, sculpture has been increasingly present in his work: terracottas and bronzes made of imprint, a kind of modern archaeology that also emerges from the water as salt sculptures: gnarled forms, hybrid amphorae, mannequins like a buried army expressing a "new nature". Exhibitions at the MAMAC in Nice, the Espace Paul Riquet in Béziers, the Espace Vallès in Grenoble, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, the La Cupula cultural center in Merida, Mexico, the Musée Réattu in Arles, the Chapelle du Méjean in Arles and the Hôtel de Gallifet in Aix-en-Provence showcase the many facets of this prolific artist. He creates large-scale murals in Arles, Nîmes and the Alpilles, for the Apart festival, during the Nuit blanche, in the Pommery cellars in Reims and in Liège, Belgium. His latest series of "revealed papers" are a synthesis of painter, engraver and sculptor, where the incision reveals color like a buried palette. Monumental works in which the creative process seems to borrow as much from sculpture, linocut and painting, Actes Sud has published several books on the artist, including a major monograph covering the last fifty years of his work. It reveals the continuity of thought and action of this insatiable researcher in his constant quest for humanity.