Jean Gorin
Albert Jean Gorin , known as Jean Gorin , born in 1899 with Saint-Emilien-with-Blain and deceased in 1981 with Niort is an artist French.
Origin
He is the junior by a family of four children, his father is Cordonnier. In 1910, its family is fixed at Nort-sur-Erdre, close to Nantes. After a failure with the certificate of primary studies, it begins in 1912 a professional training with Nantes, then with Paris, where it studies with the Académie of the Large Thatched cottage. In 1916, it is mobilized in Nantes, then share in the zone of the engagements after a few months. It finishes its military service on the edges of the the Rhine, in 1918.
The artistic field
He is pupil of the Ecole of the Art schools of Nantes in 1919. He fixes himself at Nort-sur-Erdre in 1922, where he carries on an community activity while continuing to paint. In 1922, at the time of a voyage to Paris, it carries out its first contacts with works cubists. After one period Cubiste, it carries out its first painting abstracted in 1925 and discovers in 1926 the work of Piet Mondrian.
It carries out a polychromy and a furniture néo-plastic for its house of Nort-sur-Erdre. It applies to the modern world, in particular with the Architecture, research to the abstract art of Piet Mondrian. It will not cease more especially developing its ideas in the field of the relief as of 1930, then of construction in space, finally in projects of architecture. He travels in 1932 in Soviet Union, invited by a group of intellectuals and artists and discovers the Russian Constructivisme. In 1934, he becomes member of the management committee of association Abstraction-Creation, created in 1931. It settles with the Vésinet in 1937, sells its house of Nort-sur-Erdre and destroyed most of its work. It is mobilized in 1939, then prisoner of war until in 1942.
Jean Gorin also remains with Grasse between 1940 and 1945, where it has a store of objects of decoration. He fixes himself successively at Grasse (1947), with Nice for health reason in 1950 and develops projects of architecture néo-plastic to with it, until in 1956, where he settles with the Perreux, and finally, with Meudon (1962). It carries out sculptures, or rather models of sculptures which it photographs before destroying them, not being able, to preserve them in its workshop, too exiguous. Its art was outdistanced of that of Mondrian by the introduction of the Relief which develops until becoming a true mural sculpture. The Neoplasticism of Mondrian did not admit that the compositions carried out with vertical and horizontal lines. In its creations, it ends up introducing the circle, then the oblique line, while maintaining the rigor horizontal-vertical of the pure neoplasticism.
Exposures
- 1929 - 1930: Exposure with the group Circle and Carré created by Michel Seuphor and Torrès-Garcia.
- 1930, Nantes: guest by the artistic group Etrave
- 1931, Paris: Exposure of its first relief in an exposure of the group 1940
- 1945, Paris: Exposure concrete Art, Gallery Rene Drouin.
- 1946 : Living room of New Realities , of which he is the secretary
- 1948, New York: Exposure of Abstract art constructive
- 1957, Paris: 50 years of abstract Painting organized with the Gallery Creuze , first exposure particular to the Gallery Colette Allendy
- 1958, Saint-Etienne: First generations of the abstract art
- 1960, Liege: Museum of Walloon Art
- 1965, Nantes: Retrospective (1921 - 1965) with the Museum of the Art schools
- 1966, Chicago: Exposure to the Kazimir Gallery
- 1967, Amsterdam: Retrospective with the Stedelijk Museum
- 1969, Paris: Retrospective with the National center of contemporary art
- 1974, Paris: Exposure to the Gallery Denise Rene
- 1977, Nantes: Retrospective with the Museum of the Art schools
- 1977, Paris: Center Pompidou
- 1999, Blain: Homage of the Movement Madi to Gorin, Castle of Groulais
- 1999, Grenoble: Exposure Jean Gorin
Artist impossible to circumvent of the Neoplasticism in France, an important part of his work is preserved at the museum of the Art schools of Nantes.
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