Jean Grooves

Jean Grooves born Jean-Philippe Robert Geenen, is a painter, a Poète, a Belgian writer born on January 24th, 1927 with Brussels. He dies with the Rochetaillée-on-Saone, close to Lyon on June 30th, 1986.

Biography

As of his years of college, Jean Raine publishes in the review of poetry created by his French professor, Fernand Verhesen, it binds friendship with its school-fellows Luc de Heusch with whom it collaborates later in many films and Hubert June which initiates it with the Surréalisme.

Meet Pierre Alechinsky in 1944 or 45. Thanks to their friendship, it takes part as a poet and a scenario writer in the adventure of the group ''' CoBrA '''. It indeed publishes texts in several numbers of the review and organizes “the Festival of experimental and abstract film” during the Second Exposure of Experimental Art Cobra to the palate of Beautiful arts of Liege in 1951.

Its first loves are poetry and the cinema. It met Henri Langlois during an exposure that this one organized in Brussels and joined it with Paris in 1946. The friendship of Langlois and the multiple meetings which it makes with the French Cinémathèque mark it deeply.

Very interested by surrealism, it, in Brussels, met Rene Magritte, Marcel Lecomte which later foreword its first exposure to Brussels and Louis Scutenaire, which prefaces one of its exposures to Paris. As of its arrival in Paris, it returns visit to André Breton which makes known to him the doctor Pierre Mabille with which it carries out its first documentary film on the Test of the Village).

Collaborate in various films with Henri Storck, Henri Kessels, Luc de Heusch, mainly for the drafting of the comments of their films. Inter alia for Perséphone , the only film COBRA carried out by Luc de Heusch and in which plays Nadine Bellaigue, its first épouse.
Whereas all its life Jean Raine wrote poems and texts, the words to little by little seem him insufficient and it starts to draw then to paint. In 1962, his/her friend Marcel Broodthaers presents it to Philippe All Saints' day, owner of the Saint Laurent Gallery in Brussels where it exposes for the first time, prefaced by Marcel Lecomte.
In Paris, Pierre Alechinsky introduces it near the Gallery of Ranelagh where it exposes in 1964, exposure prefaced by Christiane Rochefort. It is of these years 1964 to 1967 that date its large Indian inks. He remains of 1966 to 1968 with San Francisco where he discovers acrylic painting. He re-examines Kenneth Anger which he had lodged at the time of its first passage to Paris about 1950. He exposes to it in the universities of Berkeley and Stanford, like in galleries of San Francisco and Los Angeles. As from 1968, it settles definitively in Lyon where ensign its wife Sanky Raine.
Since 1970, attracted with Ligure Chalice by Theodore Kœnig an old friend, it remains every summer in Italy where it exposes to many recoveries. (bond with personal exposures).

It is Theodore Koenig who made known me Italy of the Ligurians and the painters who remained there every summer with Calice around the gallery It Punto and of Remo Pastori." " |Jean Grooves

He dies in the Rochetaillée-on-Saone, close to Lyon, on June 30th, 1986.

Since several retrospectives took place on its work, as well in France as in Belgium and Italy.

Exposures

List multiple exposures individual or collective ===Individuelles of sound vivant===

1962 - St. Lawrence Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
1964 - Gallery Ranelagh - Paris, France -
1965 - Gallery Contemporaries - Brussels, Belgium -
1965 - Michelangeli Gallery - Orvieto, Italy -
1965 - St. Lawrence Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
1966 - Gallery Ranelagh - Paris, France -
1967 - Britton Gallery - San Francisco, the USA -
1967 - Mead Gallery - Menlo Park, the USA -
1967 - u.a. Berkeley Student Gallery Union - Berkeley, the USA -
1967 - U.a. Medical Center Student Gallery Union - San Francisco, the USA -
1968 - Bechtel Center, Student Gallery Union, Standford University - Stanford, the USA -
1968 - Mead Gallery - San Francisco, the USA -
1968 - Silvan Simone Gallery - Los Angeles, the USA -
1968 - Smith Andersen Gallery - Palo Alto Cal, the USA -
1970 - St. Lawrence Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
1970 - Galleria It Punto - Ligure Chalice, Italy -
1970 - Gammelstrand Gallery - Copenhagen, Denmark -
1970 - Smith Andersen Gallery - Palo Alto Cal, the USA -
1972 - French Cineclub - Paris, France -
1972 - Gallery the Eye Listens - Lyon, France -
1972 - Gallery Sun in the Head - Paris, France -
1972-1973 - House of the Culture of Hauteville - Hauteville, France -
1974 - National center of Dramatic art - Lyon, France -
1974 - Galleria Effemeridi - Modena, Italy -
1974 - Galleria It Salotto - Like, Italy -
1974 - Galleria Tavolozza - Bergamo, Italy -
1974 - Galleria Nove Colonne - Thirty, Italy -
1974 - Galleria Spazzio - Brescia, Italy -
1974 - New Gallery - Catane, Italy -
1974 - New Smith Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
1975 - Banca Popolare di Milano - Milan, Italy -
1975 - Gallery the Eye Listens to - Lyon, France -
1975 - Gallery Sun in the Head - Paris, France -
1975 - Galleria Tavolozza - Bergamo, Italy -
1976 - City Bank - Roma, Italy -
1976 - Galleria Tela - Palermo , Italy -
1976 - Galleria S.M.13 Studio of Arte Moderna - Rome, Italy -
1977 - Arts center of Woluwé Saint-Pierre - Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Belgium -
1977 - Galleria Tela - Palermo, Italy -
1977 - Galleria Penna - Metz-native, Italy -
1978 - Galleria It Punto - Ligure Chalice, Italy -
1979 - Galleria It Brandale - Soaps, Italy -
1979 - Galleria He Salotto - Como, Italy -
1980 - Gallery Turning - Legs (Namur), Belgium -
1980 - Gallery itEye Listens to - Lyon, France -
1981 - Galleria It Navicello - Pisa, Italy -
1981 - House for All - Annemasse, France -
1981 - Cantonal Museum of Beautiful arts - Lausanne, Switzerland -
1982 - 1983 - Center of Cultural activity of Toulouse - Toulouse, France -
1984 - Town hall of Villeurbanne - Villeurbanne, France -
1986 - Gallery the Olive - Lyon, France -
1986 - Museo of arte contemporanea " Del Consolo" put; - Ligure Chalice, Italy -

Posthumous exposures

Since its death in 1986 of very many demonstrations place in museums and centers of art, individual or collective had:

Individual since 2000 :

2000 - Protée Gallery - Paris, France -
2000 - I.U.F.M. Gallery Junction - Lyon, France -
2001 - Quadri Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
2001 - I.U.F.M. of the Masters - Borough in Bresse, France -
2004 - Files of the Museum of the Literature - Brussels, Belgium -
2004 - Council school Jean Grooves - Rochetaillée on the Saone, France -
2004 - the Ball of the Burning ones - Lyon, France -
2006 - Gallery Jean Michel de Dion - Brussels, Belgium -
2006 - Quadri Gallery - Brussels, Belgium -
2006 - Galleria It Salotto - As, Italy -
2006 - PMMK the Museum of Modern art of Ostend in Belgium - Exposure of its very large sizes (up to 450 cm × 300 cm) - Museum of Modern art of Ostend

Recent exposures

Gallery Henry Chartier 42 rue Burdeau - 69001 LYON, from January 18th to March 3rd, 2007,

Works

Plastics

They are composed of drawings, paintings (often of papers strengthened on fabrics), of inks, prints and also of sculptures.

Its works are in very many museums and several private collections - ===Littéraires=== Many texts, during Cobra ( a matter having the drawing for object, 1951), from time to time lampoonists ( Lettre with Mister the Tax collector ), of poetries ( Six poems , 1965), of the tests ( On abstract painting , 1969), car-analyzing ( Journal of a delirium , 1958), on its meetings ( a big family, 1985) many that it had with Kenneth Anger, André Breton, Marcel Marceau, Michel de Ghelderode, Pierre Mabille, Rene Magritte, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Alechinsky, Henri Langlois…

Michael Lonsdale reads Jean Raine

Cinematographic

Arts and the Reason (1964) realized by Jean Grooves and Michel Coupez. Scenario and comment of Jean Groove.
the Test of the Village (195-) realization, production and text of Jean Grooves.
Michel de Ghelderode (1957) realized by Luc de Heusch and Jean Grooves.
Perséphone (1951), only film Cobra, carried out by Luc de Heusch. Poem of Jean Grooves known as by Jacques Jeannet.
Mona or 3 minutes of the life of a woman (195-) realized by Michel Cross and Bob Milord " cameraman". Scenario of Jean Grooves.

Between 1953 and 1956, Jean Raine collaborates in various films with Henri Storck, Henri Kessels, Luc de Heusch, by his writing of the comment and his participation in the scenarios.

Building set of Henri Kessels (scenario and cutting).
modern Taste of Luc de Heusch (corealisation and comment).
Magritte , of Luc de Heusch and Jacques Delcorde (to advise artistic).
Belgian Ports of Henri Storck (attending the realization, scenario and comment).
the Cannes festival of Luc de Heusch (cutting and comment).
Fishing Flemish in the storm of Henri Kessels and Serge Vandercam (cutting and comment).
Ruanda and Festival at Hamba of Luc de Heusch (assistance with the assembly and comment).

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