Discover the contemporary work of SMOOS

Studies at Saint Luc Tournai Belgium from 1967 to 1972 under the leadership of Yvan Theys.

 

Came to Marseille in 1974 as an interior designer.

 

Drawing and painting since 1965.

Collaborate with; some group exhibitions and a

Personal exhibition at Sun advertising in 1976.

Winner of the "Drôle de tête competition in 2017"

Collective exhibition at Rome in 2018.

Collective exhibition: The round of Plan de Cuques artists in 2019

Draw and paint without constraint or influence. Is not attached à no school. Promotes the mixing of pictorial expressions and emphasizes the touch and the gesture with a craft of a personal style. 

Painting silent dialogues between humans, expressing their secret feelings, this is what I wish to transmit as values where everyone projects their own emotions.

I have been painting for 50 years, and these years have led me to a career in painting. a pictorial approach without modes or constraints.

It's about blending or contrasting context and characters into a convincing composition where each of these two elements sees its expressive power increase by the presence of the other.

 

A closed environment here forms the scene of a drama nourished by solitude, fears, symbols and the introspection of complex feelings.

The rigor of the compositions contrasts with the harsh touches. the limit of reading.

There is something to this; discover in this destructuring.

The frontal presentation of faces refers to questioning, to anxiety and anxiety the question of human destiny.

Artistic approach:

The bodies and their faces must also cross temporality; and space, they are young and often surprised, they do not yet have this heavy burden of experience, but they struggle to become autonomous themselves; like the chrysalis they are on the threshold of adulthood but are not quite there yet. done.

They expose their emotions without restraint, they are eager to find recognition in the eyes of their alter ego.

These beings are not only present but above all they speak, communicate, dialogue and think.

This must be seen physically; we must materialize this virtual matter between humans with their fleshly forms.

The spots become personal symbols, links, attachments... Here an electric bulb, lights up, attracts, eternally ephemeral. Severe; an informal blue matrix as valuable knowledge. Severe; still cubes emptied of meaning where esoteric signs.

 

These are increasingly narrative paintings resulting from pure and spiritual abstraction hidden by the material of a figurative world.

Sometimes texts allow the viewer to deepen the story.

This dualism fills the hesitations and intrinsic contradictions of the painter without ever giving in to ease.

Formal research tends to use different techniques and collect specific and recurring vocabularies.

All styles can be represented and respected in the richness they bring to life. the history of Art.

This material makes it possible to depict a long cycle of life and death in " the room "

There is always a discovery in this closed world where everything can be prison or escape.

And whereù the bed is: " the magical and ideal place of birth, love and death "

I paint lives that express their destinies and search for the answer to their questions. their expectations, slipped between the mirrors of a pure and harsh world, faced with reality. the anguish that questions them.

Will I have become a painter to cure myself of being in the world?

 

The works are visible on

INSTAGRAM:  smoosjeanlouis

MAJOR ART:  @jeanlouismoos

ARTISTEO:: SMOOS Jean-Louis

ART PROGRESS  2000: Jean Louis SMOOS