Cleren Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul Cleren is a French artist born in 1940 in Belle-île en mer. He painted and drew very early before he received any artistic training. From 1952 to 1957 he took courses at the Marguerite Allard Academy in Marseille. In 1958 the painter moved into Cézanne's studio in Château Noir. He then moved to Saint-Tropez in 1960 and exhibited his works there every year at the Georges Barry gallery. In 1967 and 1968 he took part in the Salon de Mai in Paris. Since 1969 he has regularly exhibited in Geneva at the Lambert Monet gallery. In 1983, the Mosaïque gallery in Paris exhibited his works alongside those of Salvador Dali and Léonor Fini. Jean-Paul Cleren's creative activity is the fruit of a compelling constitutional necessity and is never unnecessary or mere fantasy. The artist, whether he likes it or not, always attaches meaning to his work and it is essential to go beyond appearances to analyze this meaning, because it is beyond appearances that we begin to question ourselves and others Pull. And it is this questioning of the metaphysical essence that is the main virtue of Jean-Paul Cleren's art. (marcel-spilliaert.com)