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Biography

Childhood

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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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

Mâcon 2025 Exhibition

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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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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