Jean-Paul Perrenx wurde am 20. Juni 1950 in Sétif (Algerien) geboren. In mehreren Texten erzählte er humorvoll von seiner Kindheit, die von prägenden Erinnerungen durchzogen war, wie etwa diesem Ausflug in einen Zirkus, wo er echte Löwen sah: „[...] Es gibt immer wieder Leute, die mich fragen, warum ich Löwen male. Und ich sage ihnen, dass ich es selbst nicht weiß, da ich nie welche gesehen habe, außer in der Sendung ‚La Piste aux Etoiles‘, als ich klein in Algerien war, und ein bisschen auch in ‚La Vie des Animaux‘ im Fernsehen, und einmal in echt in Algier, weil ich unter der Plane eines Zirkus hindurchgeschlüpft war, um...
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These drawings were made in 2005. They present a recurring theme: that of a...
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The collection consists of 40 paintings, created between 2013 and 2015, set on...
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This is a series of 130 works, produced between 1998 and 2004, which present a...
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The majority of the paintings presented here were made in 2013. Their theme is...
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These 47 drawings were made between 2002 and 2014, and the recurring theme of...
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This collection includes paintings from the 1970s to 2015. We have added other...
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The City of Mâcon wished to pay tribute to the Mâcon-born painter Jean-Paul Perrenx. It has dedicated its two temporary exhibition rooms to a retrospective of his works. This is an opportunity to discover, or rediscover, through numerous pieces,...
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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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