Jean-charles Blais (1956): "pang!" Gouache On Paper, Signed Lower Left, Dated 83

Jean-Charles BLAIS (1956): "Pang!" gouache on paper, signed lower left, dated 83. dim: 45 x 24 cm. On the back: labels from the Catherine Issert gallery and Mayor Rowan Gallery. Biography The public appearance of the work of Jean Charles Blais takes place in the early 1980s with paintings painted on recycled materials and particularly torn posters. His first personal exhibition at the CAPC in Bordeaux in 1982 will be followed by numerous presentations in galleries; Yvon Lambert in Paris, Leo Castelli in New York, Buchmann in Basel, Catherine Issert in Saint-Paul [Which one?] and Kenji Taki in Tokyo. In 1987, a solo exhibition was dedicated to him at the Pompidou Center in Paris. In 1990, he designed the layout of the Assemblée Nationale metro station in Paris, made up of a gigantic frieze of posters printed and periodically renewed (planning renewed in a new version in 2004 for ten years). He was invited the following year to present a personal exhibition at the Staatsgalerie Morderner Kunst in Munich, then in 1994 at the museum in The Hague. The same year he presented a set of suspended shapes cut out of fabric at the Salpêtrière chapel as part of the Autumn Festival in Paris. In 1996, he produced a public project, the Telephone Booths, consisting of posters displayed in the advertising spaces of the city's telephone booths at the request of the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of the “Thinking Print” exhibition. In 1998, he presented in Paris, at the Yvon Lambert gallery, then at the Groningen Museum and at the Bawag foundation in Vienna, a series of works entitled Made to Measure which he had made in fabrics by a sewing studio. From this period he also collaborated in the creation of the Art-Netart studio and envisaged the design of works using digital technologies. In 2002 the first elements of this work were presented by Modernism in San Francisco, the Lambert collection in Avignon, but also in the form of DVDs in places of distribution such as Fnac, Virgin, or And A store in Japan (in January 2013 an important set of these digital works was collected and presented under the title Die numérique Linie at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich). In 2004 Jean Charles Blais designed a new set of printed images for the development of the “National Assembly” metro station in Paris. At the request of the Grand Théâtre, Opéra de Genève, he also produced a series of graphic projects for the posters for the performances of the 2008/2009 season. This series of images inaugurates a prolific series of large gouaches on paper, crossing photographic sources, collages and cut-out paper. The invention of these pinned assemblages reintroduced the appearance of painted figures in his work. In February 2010 he also collaborated with the architect Jean Nouvel in the form of an installation at the presentation of 100 eleventh avenue in New York. In the spring of 2013 in Antibes, the Picasso Museum is devoting a major exhibition to him, combining a set of recent and previously unseen paintings with a selection of works that explore unpredictable and permanent transformations over time. Public collections Germany Freudenberg Industry, Weinheim Graphische Sammlung der Stadt, Esslingen Museum Ludwig im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz Neue Galerie, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Austria Lentos Art Museum, Linz MAK Vienna. Austria mumok (Museum Moderner kunst), Vienna Belgium Center for Engraving and the Printed Image, La Louvière Canada Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal Spain ARCO Foundation, Madrid United States Museum Of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art , Washington Cleveland Museum of Art, Graphics Department, Cleveland Finland Sara Hildénin taidemuseo (fi), Tampere France National Library of France, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux Lambert Collection, Avignon Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art , Paris Cnap national contemporary art fund, Paris Clermont-Ferrand (Alsace) Sélestat Limoges Amiens (PACA) Marseille (Brittany), Rennes Institute of contemporary art of Villeurbanne Les Abattoirs, Toulouse Carré d'art, museum of contemporary art , Nîmes Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice Toulon Museum of Art, Toulon Cantini Museum, Marseille National Museum of Modern Art, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ain de Strasbourg Réattu Museum, Arles Picasso Museum, Antibes UCAD, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris Japan Kōchi Art Museum, Japan Monaco NMNM, Museum of Contemporary Art Netherlands Royal Library, The Hague Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam. Netherlands Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Portugal Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon Switzerland Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne Musée Jenisch, Vevey Museum fur Gegewartskunst, Basel Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland United Kingdom Tate Gallery, Graphics Department, London