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New York, number 9
2019
Jean-Baptiste SÉCHERET
Painting
209 x 300 cm
Whether working with etching, lithograph, painting, or engraving, Sécheret, who taught at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville, brings into opposition buildings and vacant spaces without any detail distracting the attention. No matter the location –New York, La Défense, Normandy –, the world created by Jean-Baptiste Sécheret seems empty, deserted, or disused. Each moment feels stopped, almost turned into eternity. It says nothing about the past nor the future. Instead of evoking time, his series deny it.
Born in 1957 inNeuilly-sur Seine, France
Lives and works in Paris
Jean-Baptiste Sécheret is a graduate fromthe Beaux-Arts of Paris (1981). He spent two years in residency at the Casa Vélasquez in Madrid (1984-1986) and has been a member of the Société des peintres-graveurs français since 1999. His artworks, which were awarded several prizes, are featured in many private and public collections in France, Switzerland, the United States, and China.
More than twenty publications have been dedicated to his work, including, among others, texts by Jacques Thuillier, Pierre Bergounioux, James Lord, Michel Waldberg, Patrick Mauriès, Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, and Jean-Louis Augé.
Since his first exhibitions at Galerie Albert Loeb (1984), Galerie Berggruen (1989), and later on Galerie Jacques Elbaz (2000), his artworks are regularly displayed in France and abroad in many solo and collective shows, both in galleries and museums.
Artwork of
Jean-Baptiste SECHERET
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