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landscapes in which (usually) one of his sculptures stands.

Biography

Born in Lyon, France, in 1934, he received a degree in law from the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon in 1955. He lived and worked in Paris between 1959 and 1993. His work can be encapsulated in a series of distinct periods, which the artist titled. From 1962 to 1963, he worked on a series of sculptural paintings that he called "Charge-Objets" (English: "Charge-Objects"). From 1969 to 1974 he created a series of works under the general title of "Organisations d'espace" (English: "Space Organizations"). He died 17 March 2021 at his home in Maine-et-Loire, France.

Solo exhibitions

*1967 "Première organisation d'espace", Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). *1968 "Deux organisations d'espace", Galerie Yvon Lambert (Paris). *1973 "Les Organisations d'espace de Sanejouand", Centre National d'Art Contemporain (Paris). *1979 "Espaces-Peintures", The Antwerp Gallery, FIAC (Paris). *1982 "Espaces-Peintures", Lens Fine Art Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium). *1986 "Rétrospective: des Charges-Objets aux Espaces-Peintures", Palais des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, France). *1991 "Espaces-Peintures 1978-1986", MAC (

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, France). *1991 "Les Charges-Objets 1963-1967", Galerie Froment-Putman (Paris). *1995 "Rétrospective 1963-1995", MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). *1996 "Peintures", Galerie Barbier, FIAC (Paris). *2002 "Libre et Change", Galerie Chez Valentin (Paris). *2005 "Sanejouand", Le Plateau (Paris). *2011 "Espaces et Cie", Galerie MAM, Drawing now, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris). *2012 "Retrospectivement", Frac des Pays de la Loire (Carquefou), HAB gallery ( Nantes), as part of "Jean Michel Sanejouand's year in Pays de la Loire". *2015 "Un peu d'espace(s)", Galerie Art : Concept (Paris). *2018 "Beyond color", Galerie Art : Concept (Paris). *2018 "Operation contact", Galerie Kreo (Paris and London).

Group exhibitions

*1967 "Superlund", Lunds Konstall (Sweden). Curator: Pierre Restany. Also featuring: Arman,

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, French pavilion (Italy). Curator: Pierre Restany. Also featuring:

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, Alain Jacquet, Bertrand Lavier, Jean-Pierre Raynaud... *1986 "Qu'est-ce que l'art français ?" (What is French art ?),

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(France). Curator:

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. Also featuring: Erik Dietman, Robert Filliou,

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, Gérard Gasiorowski,

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... *1992 Universal Exposition of Seville, French pavilion (Seville, Spain). *1999 "Les Champs de la Sculpture" (Sculptures of

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), where "Le Silence" was first exhibited. Also featuring: Tony Cragg, Erik Dietman,

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... *2006 "La force de l'Art", Grand Palais (Paris). Curator: Anne Tronche. *2012 "Ends of the earth: Land Art to 1974", MOCA (Los Angeles, USA). *2015 "Cycle des histoires sans fin",

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(Geneva, Switzerland). *2020 "Platform: Paris/Brussels", David Zwirner's online viewing room.

Monumental sculptures

*1996 "Le Silence" (The Silence), a bronze sculpture whose largest version is two meters high. Until 2019, It was installed in a private park of sculptures near Biarritz (France). *2005 ''Le Magicien'' (The Magician), a five-meters high bronze, installed in the gardens of Palais Saint-Georges, close to the railway station of Rennes (France).

Collections

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, Paris * Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Ile de France *

Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon The Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon is a museum devoted to contemporary art, located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, in the Cité Internationale, next to the cinema, in front of the Parc de la Tête d'Or. It had over 42,000 visitors in 2007. ...

* Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bibliography

*''Les organisations d'espaces de Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1967-1974)'', Frédéric Herbin and Jean-Michel Sanejouand

Footnotes

External links

Official Website
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