Jean-Michel Alberola
New Work
Jean-Michel Alberola, who has been represented by Galerie Templon for over thirty years, is back at the Impasse Beaubourg space with an exhibition featuring oils on canvas, works on paper, mural paintings and neon sculptures.
A leading and genre-breaking figure on the French art scene, Jean-Michel Alberola seeks 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.
Jean-Michel Alberola favours a working method based on fragmentation and superimposition, combining words with the language of shapes. Fragments of bodies or geographies linked to ambiguous statements and commands turn his works into philosophical conundrums. The question of perception and the role played by the artist and by painting predominates. The artist adopts a humorous and poetic approach in his commitment to asking wider questions, mixing artistic deliberations with political and social questioning.
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.
