For several years, the municipal plastic arts workshop of Tarascon has organized meetings with an artist who invests in the Workshop for several weeks by showing their work, presenting their approach and leading a workshop. 3-day artistic practice.
This is aimed at the students of the workshop, but also at the general public and at anyone attentive to art in order to share and discuss about today’s artists. Recently Philippe Turc, Julia Scalbert, Anthony Morel, Katie Montanier responded to the Workshop’s invitation. These meetings provide the opportunity to make a special contact with current creation.
Jérémy Damien is a painter who lives and works in Nîmes. Trained in the fine arts of Toulon and Nîmes, he is, among other things, a teacher in design drawing-painting at the University of Design of Nîmes.
The workshop presents its work as “essentially abstract, anchored in a very concrete simplicity of means. The notion of “unfinished”, the use of frames and sometimes the partitioning of his pictorial space are very present elements. They bring a breath – essential to his work – which is played like a score with its voids and its fullness, its own rhythm“.
“A work of discernment”
The artist has participated in numerous exhibitions, projects, visual creations such as the projections on the Pont du Gard in 2021.I remember a painting by Miró seen at the Maeght foundation, in front of which I had the feeling of work still in progress, the canvas was three-quarters painted blue, only one blank surface left with a glimpse of the tiling remaining visibleconfides Jérémy Damien. I could make out a few sketches of patterns and that was it..”
And the artist continues: “This suspended gesture revealed the foundations of an unfinished composition, a transparency in the material and time which became poetic in its ability to reveal its perpetual incompleteness. My work finds meaning when a potential for spatial opening is generated in the composition; if I am not careful to restore this balance, something then inexorably dies. Perhaps the interest of painting in itself. Let’s call this work of discernment.“.
-Several events will therefore, during this meeting, revolve around the artist.
The program
Two exhibitions visible: from January 13 to February 27, small gallery of the Atelier. Free entry during school hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and February 10 to 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. And from January 14 to 22, artistic pastille at the Media Library. Free entry Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Meeting with Jérémy Damien: January 22 at 4:30 p.m., conference meeting at the Le Lien Media Library. FREE ENTRANCE.
Artistic practice course led by Jérémy Damien: February 10, 11, 12 at the Municipal Arts Workshop.
Municipal plastic arts workshop 04 90 91 51 96 – [email protected]
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