Jean Arcelin

Jean Arcelin is a free-Switzerland painter born in Paris in 1962.

Professor with the workshop of the Passage to Paris, it exposes since 1988 in several Parisian galleries, but also of Haute-Savoie, the Riviera and Switzerland.

Presented to FIAC in 1993 and 1995, it exposed into 1989,1991 and 1999 of the portraits to the Institut of France. Having received multiple orders on behalf of companies, it also painted the decoration of the Middle-class man Gentleman for the Theater of Neuilly on the Seine in 1993. It is referred in the Dictionary of the Painters, Sculpteurs, draftsmen and engravers of Emmanuel Bénézit and in the Dictionary of the Visual arts, modern and contemporaries of Jean-Pierre Delarge (Gründ Editions).

During the summer 2007, from July 1st to September 6th, the town of Bergerac in the Dordogne devotes to him a retrospective exposure of 40 of its major works to the Saint-Jacob Presbytery.

As the name of its fabrics reveals it, it finds its favorite topics in particular in the interiors baroques where play corridors and mirrors ( Bibliothèque and blue ceiling , Venetian Salon , yellow Atelier ) or in the urban landscapes where appear, such of the mirages, trams, trains or trucks ( yellow Camion , Tramway in Lisbon , Effet of station ).

Jean Arcelin often confers on his tables an almost unreal aspect thanks to the search for a certain blur, which comes to be opposed to reality subjects represented. One also notices the deepening of the space, treated by the recourse to the creepage distances and developed by the setting in light. The drawing is born initially from the color. It is also in the treatment of the color, thanks to the matter itself and by the amplitude of the pallet - one could speak about chromatic pleasure - what the force of the work of Jean Arcelin resides.

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