Jean Arcelin is a French and Swiss painter born in

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in June 1962. He studied at Charpentier, a licensed art history school at the

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, where he developed an interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting. His paintings incorporate elements of false

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and

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, as well as some elements of

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. His pictorial compositions are simply the results of his imagination without any cinematographic aids, using principally the oil canvas technique called “alla prima”, keen to the original

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, which cancels the initial undercoated and glazed steps. Landscapes edge with the urban sea, and combine with portraitist gesture. He takes corners of Paris, cafe chairs piled up in the angle of view of a monument, or the dressing room of a theatre, and portrays them empty of all human presence. He participated in the

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Recent exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions * Since 2006: Galerie 26

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, Paris. * 2013:

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, Atlanta, GA. * Since 2012: Besharat Gallery, Barbizon. * Since 2010: Besharat Gallery, Atlanta, GA. * 2010, 2011: Ariel Sibony Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris. * 2010, 2011: Sibman Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris. * 2010, 2015: Galerie Fert, Yvoire, France. Selected group exhibitions * 2011, 2012, 2013:

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, West Palm Beach, FL. * 2010, 2011, 2012: The Affordable Art Fair (AAF), New York City. * 2011:

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Basel, Switzerland. * 2011: ArtMRKT, San Francisco, CA. * 2011:

, New York City. * 2011: Lille Art Fair. * 2011: MIA Art Fair, Miami, FL. * 2010: The Red Dot, Miami, FL. * 2010: Art London, Chelsea.

Gallery

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Notes and references

Bibliography

*''Jean Arcelin, peintre de l’instant et de l’instinct'', texts by Séverine Plat-Monin, 156 pages. Editions des falaises, 2019. *''Jean Arcelin'', Besharat Gallery editions, 2013. (63 pages) * Catalogue for the exhibition ''Jean-Arcelin, impressions of Italy'', preface by Lydia Harambourg. Galerie 26’s edition, 2009. * Monograph ''Mirage and conjuring''. 96 pages, 57 colour reproductions. Galerie 26’s edition, 2008. * Catalogue for the exhibition ''Jean Arcelin, recent paintings'', preface by Lydia Harambourg. Galerie 26’s edition, 2007. *''Jean Arcelin''. Basel, Hardhof. Espace Art and Culture Ebel, 1990. Texts by Gérard Xuriguera. Editions Glasnost, Grandson, 1990.

External links

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