Jacques HALBERT
Introduction
Born in 1955, Lives and works between Paris and Chinon.
First Cherry painted by Jacques Halbert was in 1975 when he was a studient at Bourges Fine Arts School. The Cherry of his works became a mischievous motif inside the general pictorial mouvement in the 70': an obsessional and personal ritornello investing as well performances.
« painting cherries, everywhere, everytime, and just care about it ! » says the tireless « cerisiste ». He takes the Blue, Red and Green and use clearly the figurative motif in abstraction. He's work is made in radical context that pushed painting to its very limits, as Daniel Buren or Niele Toroni and Roman Opalka have done in their specific way.
Biography
1972-1973 : École Brassart, Tours (FRA)
1973-1978 : École des Beaux-Arts, Bourges, with Daniel Dezeuze and Jean Claude Silbermann Studio.
1979-2002 : USA studio in New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
1985-1989 : ART CAFE Co-Owner with Mireille Brame in New York - East Village. organized several exhibitions with Alan Jones, Dorothea Selz and Pierre Restany. Exhibited artists: John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Charles Dreyfus, Doreathea Selz, Jean Dupuy, Daniel Spoerri, Ken Friedmann, Ben Vautier, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Phoebe Legere, Christian Xatrec, François Morellet, Jacques Halbert.
1999-2001 : had opened the Magnifik Gallery in New York. Exhibited Artists : Olga Adorno, Larry Miller, John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Jean Dupuy, Ben Paterson, Ken Friedmann, Jack Pospisil, Geoff Hendricks, Carolee Schneemann, Joël Hubaut, Ben Vautier, Brendan Klinger, Christian Xatrec, Alison Knowles, Phoebe Legere, Nicola L
