Discover the contemporary work of Jean-François LESENFANS

Jean-François LESENFANS born March 9, 1955 in Paris

• 1993 Aggregation of plastic arts
• 1978 Diploma of sculptor ENSAD (National School of Decorative Arts)

Solo exhibitions

• 2023: Salon de Montgeron (guest of honor)
• 2016: Société artists from Beaumont-sur-Oise.
• 2013: « Nature Art Today » Biennale des Beaux Arts de Beaumont-sur-Oise (guest of honor)
• 2005-2020 Galerie GUILLAUME  Paris 8 (in event « ARSELOU »)
• 2017  Hôtel du Croissant (Artistic Society of Fine Arts of Beaumont)  Beaumont-sur-Oise
• 2004: “Treats and artists' bread” MJC Dieppe (76)
• 2006: « Dark humor » Untitled gallery Brussels.
•             « The Immonstrables » Maison Jacques Prévert de Dieppe
• 1998  Orange House -  Cultural Center of Drancy
• 1997/98/99 Galerie ZAFIRA - Paris 5
• 1996  Bobigny City Hall
• 1995  André Malraux Cultural Center - Le Bourget
• 1991  Galerie CHABIN - Paris 18
• 1990  Galerie ART PLUS – Paris

Group exhibitions

• 2017  “ Globalization”  Maison Jacques Prévert -  Dieppe
• 2006  “L'Humour Noir”” Galerie 100 Titres – Brussels – Curator: Yak Rivais
• 2006  “ Les Inmontrables”” Maison Jacques Prévert – Dieppe
• 2004  “ Artists' Sweets and Bread” Maison Jacques Prévert - Dieppe
• 2005 and following years     «  Artists' Wishes » Paris 8 / and 111 des Arts Town Hall - Paris  / Toulouse / Lyon / Marseilles
• 2002   «  Humor in Contemporary Art » Espace Belleville Paris 19 - Curator: Francis Parent
• 1997   ESSEC IMD-CNIT La Défense
• 1995 «  It happened tomorrow » Bobigny City Hall
• 1993  Orangerie du Luxembourg - Quint'Essence group
• 1990 / 91 / 92 / 93 / 94  Galerie Samagra - Paris 5
• 1990  Galerie Arts Expos - Paris
• 1987 / 88 / 89 American Church
• 1987 Galerie Hautefeuille Paris 5

Showrooms

• 1997 / 99 / 2001 / 2005 / 2017 Salon Biennale des 109
• 1997  FIA Ibero-Caribbean Fair  Caracas
• 1997  Marne-la-Vallée Plastic Arts Show
• 1994  Contemporary Art - Espace Champerret – Paris
• 1994 / 96 / 2000 Salon de Montrouge
• 1993 / 96 Biennale des Beaux Arts de Beaumont-sur-Oise
• 1992 « Museum for a day, sculptor for life »  Paris- Marché Saint Paul
• 1992 « Saint Germain des Beaux-Arts – Paris 5
• 1991 Figuration Critique - Spain
• 1990 Figuration Critique – Grand Palais – Paris
• 1989/90 Salon of Young Painting – Paris

“You can paint with whatever you want, with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, candelabras, pieces of oilcloth, false collars, paper, newspapers” wrote Apollinaire in his work “The Cubist Painters” in 1913.

Since then, we have known that painting is also the poetry of bricolage and I take responsibility for this heritage; the painting, starting from its material constituents which are the canvas, the frame, the frame, explores the pictorial surface, and can also be deployed in bas-relief by the addition of objects, of various materials: it is then that Apollinaire's inventory comes into play: objects from our daily lives thus find themselves "trapped" in the pigmentary material, which immediately rushes to integrate these "intruders" into the space of the pictorial field that recreates the fiction of an image with narrative content.

In another series, the paint has completely disappeared, replaced by the futility of an everyday object like the Spontex sponge that this time occupies all the space of the painting, to recreate Monet; or even the Chatterton adhesive tape that puts its most restricted palette to the test to mimic Fauvism.