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Director(s):
PAMART (MICHEL)
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Producer(s):
ARTE FRANCE, IMAGE ET COMPAGNIE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2006
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Language(s):
German, French
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Rights:
NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET
The artist was classified as belonging to the Narrative Art movement born in the 70s and "entered" the Templon Gallery in Paris.
Jean Le Gac was born in 1936 in Alès in the Gard region of France and spent his teenage years on the Carmaux mining site in the Tarn region. He went to Paris to study as an art teacher, a career he saw through to the end, alongside that of plastic artist. He currently lives in Paris and exhibits in France and abroad.
The artist was noticed during the Individual Mythologies exhibition at the Documenta V in Kassel (Germany) in 1972.
His recurrent theme - the tribulations of a painter - unfolds between fiction and confession, between painting and literature, at the junction of so-called minor genres. In this way, he renews the principle of illustration, the novelistic verve and images of serial novels.
His appropriation of representation by drawing, painting and photography, to which he gives resonance using fragments of tales, remains the basic vocabulary of the construction of a mythical artistic figure whose identity depends on his function but whose roles vary at his will. However, without ever swaying from this enquiry into "The Painter", in a permanent coming-and-going between the real and the imaginary, Jean Le Gac, with his sardonic and amused view of today's art, puts his identity fundamentally into play to feed a work belonging to the realm of behavioural art.