Jean Le Gac

Born in Alès in 1936. Lives and works in Paris.

The painter of a saga that is none other than that of the painter - a dreamed figure, between fiction and memories, an alter ego projected into an elsewhere that owes as much to the museum as to the popular literature of his childhood - Jean Le Gac was also, at the end of the 1960s, the man who decided to abandon all classical pictorial ambitions. Invited to the Individual Mythologies at the Documenta in Cassel in 1972, he relayed the activities of this "virtual painter" through a narrative, in images and words, not without mixing in elements from his own biography.

After having "plundered" sanctuaries by depicting their treasures, put painting to death by dressing up as a lying toreador, or added his accessories to his file, his novelistic enterprise has since led him to track down Picasso and Braque even in his own domestic space - there again, the subject of a fiction, that of being a museum in his turn.

Jean Le Gac in a few exhibitions :
1978 Le Peintre, Exposition Romancée, Jean Le Gac, MNAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris
2004 Photo, texts and recent works, Galerie Templon, Paris.
2009 Jean Le Gac, l'Effraction douce (comm. Evelyne Artaud), Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence.

His works are present in important public collections such as the MNAM -Centre Pompidou, Paris, the MUMOK, Vienna, the SMAK, Gent, the MAMAC, Nice, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, the Abattoirs, Toulouse and the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.