JEAN JACQUES MORVAN

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Morvan, like all painters, uses brushes, but he prefers the humble razor blade. Not only does he use it to roll out his dough, but to even it out, to treat it. He likes to use pure color, as it comes out of the tube. The use of the razor blade allows him to happily play with various layers of dough. He removes a layer here and there, which leaves some “underwear” visible. His skilful scratchings give the material of his works a very particular flavor. He paints the sensations that the marine world, the sea, the shore awaken in him. Each of his creations breathes the air of the sea and the iodized breath of the ocean, on the throbbing front of the tongue of sand... Thus the shore is neither totally the land, nor yet the sea. It is the confluence where the elements merge, at the same time as water is a link between life and its origins. Sometimes this painter adds marine materials to the painting. Not only is the universe of the sea the soul of the painting, but it takes physical possession of it.

1952, from 1954 to 1958: Salon des indépendants, Paris3.
1954: Salon d’Automne, Paris3.
1955, 1957, 1958: Salon Comparisons, Paris3.
1955-1957: Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris3.
1955-1958: The School of Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paris3.
1955-1959: Exhibition of drawing and water painting, Paris3.
1956-1959: Salon Terre Latines, Paris3.
1957: Salon of painters witnesses of their time, Paris, 19573.
1958: Paul Aïzpiri, André Cottavoz, Jean Marzelle, Jean-Jacques Morvan, Marcel Mouly, American Cultural Center, Algiers.
May-June 1958: Jean-Jacques Morvan – The sea, Galerie Bellechasse, Paris7.
1959: Jean-Jacques Morvan – The sea, Galerie Espace, 19593.
1959: Galerie Vidal, Paris.
October-November 1960: Gouaches, watercolors, monotypes – Roland Bierge, Camille Hilaire, Jean-Jacques Morvan, Michel Patrix, Maurice-Élie Sarthou, Galerie Anfora, Paris8.
1961: Jean-Jacques Morvan – Ten years of painting, Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix9.
August-September 1961: Today’s Adults and Young People Salon, Martinez Hotel, Cannes.
1962: First exhibition in New York, Galerie Findlay.
1962: Jean-Jacques Morvan, Galerie Robert Schneider, Paris, from May 16 to June 14.
1962: Menton Biennale.
1964: Waves and wood fires, Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris. 1st Angers Salon, Jean-Jacques Morvan guest of honor.
1966: Important exhibition at the Château de Villa in Sierre.
1967: Decoration of the French Pavilion at the Terre des Hommes Exhibition in Montreal.
1969-70: Three important exhibitions: Musée du Québec, Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico, Maison de la Culture in Rennes. Purchase of a canvas for the Vatican Museum.
1971-72: Retrospective 20 years of painting (133 works) organized by the Directorate of Museums of France in five cities (including the Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans, October 1971 – January 1972)10. A long collaboration with Monnaie de Paris begins. International exhibition of sculpture in the metro.
1973: Exhibition in Tokyo. All paintings remain in Japan.
1973: Palace of Arts and Culture in Brest: paintings, sculptures, shows.
1974: Aix-en-Provence Festival. Exhibition in Budapest.
1974-75: Night and Fog, 50 works on the theme of Nazi camps presented in different museums.
1976: Eight painters in the metro: 3 days – 3 nights for a very large format work.
1978: Organizes the painting-music-mime-poetry Festival in Saint-Émilion (L’Art et la Cité). Exhibits in the monolithic church with Constantin Andreou, Antonio Guansé, Henri Guibal, Serge Labégorre, Jacques Lagrange, Robert Lapoujade and Raymond Guerrier from September 22 to 26.
1980: Retrospective covering the last 15 years at the Palais des Festivals in Menton. Exhibited in Caracas.
1981: President Jacques Chaban-Delmas inaugurates a museum in Bordeaux containing all of his work on deportation and the Resistance.
1982-84: Traveled to the four corners of the world aboard the Royale. Painted, written. Exhibitions in China and the U.S.S.R.
1985: Official exhibition in Cameroon, then exhibition in Lausanne.
1987: The Frantour group ordered 5 tapestries and large painting formats to decorate its “Marina Viva” holiday center in Corsica. Frantour had already ordered a series of posters for all of its tourist centers.
1988: Exhibition in France on the theme “The Pyrenees”.
June-July 1989: La Mer, Hôtel du Palais, Biarritz11.
1990: Important exhibition in Carcassonne with direct creation in front of the public: painting-percussion with Jacky Craissac.
1991: Tribute to Saint-John Perse, Museum of Pointe-à-Pitre.
1991: Exhibition in Mexico.
1992: Jean-Jacques Morvan – Seas and oceans, Toulon Art Museum.
1992: From Bonnard to Baselitz – Ten years of enrichments of the print cabinet, Bibliothèque nationale de France12.
1992: Tribute to: Saint-John Perse, Sain Foundation

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