To celebrate his move to Paris, Italian gallerist Maurizio Nobile presents his inaugural exhibition:
“Jared French by Jared French” September 15 > October 27, 2010
Italian gallery owner Maurizio Nobile moves to 45 rue de
Penthièvre on Paris’s Right Bank with an inaugural exhibition devoted to Jared French (1905-1988). Born in the United States, this
artist, representative of the “Magical Realism” movement, adopted Rome as his preferred city. He left
behind more than 600 works – paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, engravings… Delicate and intimate,
these works reveal Jared French’s attention to the human being, whom he placed at the center of his
research.
The exhibition “Jared French by Jared French” explores his life as an artist, from his beginnings in the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. His precise drawings are like windows opening onto an exacerbated
sensitivity. Maurizio Nobile also presents black-and-white photographs, mostly taken when the artist formed the PAJAMA trio with his wife Margareth Hoening and his friend and former lover Paul Cadmus. From the ’40s onwards, Jared French began to produce more symbolic works, and learned to paint in tempera, an egg or casein tempera that became his favorite technique. French’s works evoke a fascinating mystery. Inspired by those close to him, the figures that populate them display an imperturbable serenity and seem inherited from ancient Greek statuary and the great masters of 15th-century Italian painting, such as Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna.
Maurizio Nobile acquired this important collection from the Italian heirs of Jared French. The collection, which will be published by Allemandi, is invaluable for understanding the artist’s figurative poetics. Maurizio Nobile unveils part of it to mark his entry on the Parisian scene.
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