Blais

Jean-Charles Blais is a French painter, illustrator, illustrator, designer and printmaker from the end of the 20th century^E And from the beginning of the 21st century^E century.

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In 1981, Blais took part in the exhibition Finish on a high note which announces the emergence of the Free Figuration movement and which joins Robert Combas. Blais often uses torn off posters as a support for his paintings, allowing imperfections to determine his compositions. His characters, whose faces are often hidden, are designed more as objects by the artist.

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In the 1990s, Blais explored sculpture and commissioned a layout for the Assemblée Nationale station in Paris, where he created a frieze of printed posters. For MoMA in New York, he imagines The Telephone Booths, posters exhibited in the city's telephone booths on the occasion of the exhibition Thinking Print in 1996. In the early 2000s, he turned to the creation of numerical paintings, in particular in collaboration with the Studio Art-Netart.

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His first solo exhibition took place in 1982 at the Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1987, the Pompidou Center devoted an exhibition to him. In 2013, the Picasso Museum in Antibes presented A set of paintings of recent drawings of the artist.