Jean-Michel Alberola
Les détails de l’aventure (chapitre II)
While Palais de Tokyo in Paris is showing The Adventure of Details, a major exhibition ending on May, 16, 2016, Jean-Michel Alberola presents The Details of Adventure (Chapter II) at Galerie Templon. The exhibition is devoted to his recent works on paper.
Born in 1953, Jean-Michel Alberola lives and works in Paris. Since the early 1980s, the artist has been seeking to create protean works that move seamlessly between conceptual, abstract and figurative art. Paintings, gouaches, sculptures, artists’ books and films represent the different facets of his quest. With the characteristic mixture of humour, political commitment and poetry, his work composes philosophical riddles questioning the artist’s look and role in society.
The artist
Born in 1953 in Saïda, Algeria, Jean-Michel Alberola lives and works in Paris. During his thirty-year career he has produced a protean body of work that straddles figurative, abstract and conceptual art. Gouaches, sculptures, artists’ books and films represent the different facets of his exploration of the fragility of beauty, ambiguity of perception, the role of the artist and the purpose of art. With the mixture of humour and lyricism characteristic of an engaged artist, he combines artistic reflections with political and social questions.
