DP MJCCSW 4.10_EN - copie - Maison de la France

III. TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Jean Cocteau should be seen as one of the fathers of contemporary art.
For his inextinguishable thirst for freedom, his rejection of limits and constant striving for new
forms of creation, he has often been described as a « genius jack of all trades ». Author of
poems, draughstman, embosser, creator of monumental paintings, ceramics, tapestries, theatre,
cinema, of « free films », he can rightly be considered as one of the first multimedia artists of the
20th century. His taste for experimentation, for the new, for manual work, absorbs the whole of
his work into a constantly renewed studio practice, whose creative process is the principal
object.
« All my poetry is there: I trace
the invisible (invisible to you). »
With the aim of perpetuating this experimental spirit and questioning the creation of the work,
the musée Jean Cocteau invites contemporary artists to take possession, physically and
poetically, of the temporary exhibition space and to install their studio there. The aim of each
exhibition is to show the gestation of an idea, the experimentation of a gesture, the birth of a
form, the illumination of a studio practice.
The invited artists, if they all different media (painting, sculpture, photography, video,
installation) have in common an asidous method of drawing which, freeing itself from the
traditional paper medium, opens itself to the space and constitutes a new experimental artistic
territory.
Jean Sabrier
The inaugural exhibition at the musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wunderman is dedicated
to Jean Sabrier, a French artist born in 1951 and living in Bordeaux.
The exhibition includes nearly sixty paintings, drawings, objects and video animations made
between 1975 and 2010.
Fascinated by questions of perspective, Jean Sabrier
uses drawing to unveil the invisible side of works
borrowed from the history of art. Lifting the fabric of
the representation, he allows you to see the underlying
skeleton, in the form of complex geometric structures.
Thus he provides a new perspective on the paintings,
which are volumised and energised by means of folds,
projections or reflections on various objects. This
practice of drawing revives the art of the idea, the
disegno of the artists and theorists of the Renaissance.
Jean Sabrier, Cristal Liquide, 1982
Collection FRAC-­‐Aquitaine
© Jean Sabrier
The works in the Jean Sabrier exhibition come from the following public collections :
Fonds national d’art contemporain, CAPC Bordeaux, Fonds régional d’art
contemporain Aquitaine, Fonds régional d’art contemporain Limousin,
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