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Biography

Childhood

Jean-Paul Perrenx was born on 20 June 1950 in Sétif (Algeria). In several texts, he has humorously recounted his childhood, marked by seminal memories, such as a trip to a circus where he saw real lions: "[...] there are always people who ask me why I paint lions. And I tell them that I don't know why I paint lions, since I've never seen any, except at the Piste aux Etoiles when I was a child in Algeria, and also a little in La Vie des Animaux, always on TV, and once in Algiers, because I had slipped under the tarpaulin of a circus to get in without paying, since I was doing the four hundred tricks when I was a child, around six and eleven...
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Main exhibitions

2013: Mazenod Gallery, Lyon and also Mary-Ann Gallery, Mâcon and also “Between 2 arts” gallery, Mâcon. 2014: Large site of Solutré. 2015: Grand site of Solutré (posthumous).
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2000: Cellar of the Monks, Tournus. 2001: St Hugues Stable, Cluny and also Town hall of Thiais (94). 2002: Ste Helene Gallery, Lyon. Space “The Place”, Cuisery. 2003: Victor Duruy Hall, Cluny. 2004: Space A contrario, Cluny. 2005: Space of contemporary art of the Bastille, Paris. 2007: Artmonti Gallery, Paris also Jean-Paul Perrenx Gallery, Mâcon. 2008: Cellar of the Monks, Tournus. 2014: Large site of Solutré. 2014: Grand site of Solutré (posthumous).
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1994: Espace L’Harmattan, Paris. 1995: Adamas Gallery, Dijon. 1996: Grand Hotel Gallery, Cannes. Etienne de Causans Gallery, Paris. 1997: François Martin room, Mâcon. 1998: Inter-Art-Gallery, Cologne and also Hot jazz club in Lyon. 1999: Château de Beaulieu, Riorges.
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1985: Vauban Gallery, Dijon. 1986: Hall of the Malgouverne, Cluny. 1987: Greuze Museum, Tournus and also representative of the city of Mâcon in Paris for the Reader’s Digest exhibition.
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Collections

One universe, multiple collections

adopting couples

These drawings were made in 2005. They present a recurring theme: that of a...
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Beachs

The collection consists of 40 paintings, created between 2013 and 2015, set on...
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The Sleepers in the Grass

This is a series of 130 works, produced between 1998 and 2004, which present a...
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The Characters at the bridge

The majority of the paintings presented here were made in 2013. Their theme is...
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Women near Lunel

These 47 drawings were made between 2002 and 2014, and the recurring theme of...
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Various works

This collection includes paintings from the 1970s to 2015. We have added other...
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Press

Article "Les mille et un visages de Jean-Paul Perrenx" by Monic Coutheron: "The contrast between the massive silhouette of Depardieu and the softness of his gaze is surprising. After visiting the exhibition, he agrees to pose, somewhat solemnly,...
Extract from an article by Claude Mellul: "Fifty-three paintings from a dream laboratory. However, this is not a pale reminiscence of surrealism, everything is perfectly figurative, but each object, each character undergoes the twists and...

News

In the spotlight: the website...

This site was designed during the summer of 2022 by Maud Perrenx, the painter's daughter, and Patrick Courbin, Multimedia Project Director, in order to reference the work. Its aim is to offer the public, in an immaterial form, the pictorial work of Jean-Paul Perrenx.
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Article by Alain Sève on the...

Taking as his starting point a drawing from the "Assembled Characters" series, Alain Sève shows the influence of Fauvism and Expressionism on the work of Jean-Paul Perrenx.
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