Jean-Michel Alberola was born in Saïda (French Algeria) in 1953. In the 1980s, like other painters of his generation, he was concerned about the future of painting and the relevance of his practice. He exhibited for...

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  Biography of Jean-Michel Alberola

  Jean-Michel Alberola was born in Saïda (French Algeria) in 1953. In the 1980s, like other painters of his generation, he was concerned about the future of painting and the relevance of his practice. He exhibited for the first time in 1982 at the workshops of the ARC, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. The same year, he had his first solo exhibition at the Daniel Templon gallery (Paris). Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, an important part of his work was developed in the early 1980s from an iconography of biblical origin (Susanna and the Elders) or mythological (Diana and Actaeon), and is characterized by the abundance of pieces chosen from Tintoretto, Veronese, Velasquez or Manet. Painter associated with the Figuration libre, he questions the idea "of the end of painting" dear to the XXth century, through canvases and works painted on the wall. A painter first and foremost, he nevertheless uses multiple media in his works (photographs, postcards, found objects, films and texts) in search of a link between painting, writing and speech. Drawing occupies a very important place among the many means of expression that the artist likes. The presence in the artist's work of artworks as different as neon lights, drawings, gouaches, paintings, shows his will to be an unpredictable artist close to the spirit of continuation and questioning proper to the art of the end of the XX° century. He lives and works in Paris. He is a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-arts.

  
  

  

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