Jacques Lavigne

Jacques Lavigne was born in 1937 in France. After starting a career as a geologist in North Africa, he moved to Paris in 1962. He discovered painting there through Jean-Michel Meurice, one of the instigators of the Supports-Surfaces group. Touched by the folding work of Simon Hantaï, inspired by Matisse's cutouts, influenced by Jacques Villeglé's lacerations, he embarks on a colorful creation where tearing becomes the primary element of construction.

Finally, he left Paris for the Luberon before settling in Antibes in 1977. His artistic production then diversified, and in 1995 he resumed his paper collage work with tears already practiced a few years before in Paris. Since then, exhibitions have followed one another across France.

On the fringes of artistic trends and fashions, Jacques Lavigne has devoted more than thirty years to making meticulous collages of torn paper. Playing on a contrast between structure and color, he assembles geometric shapes constituting chromatic balances and abstract harmonies. In each canvas, the apparent repetition of forms is only an illusion because each element receives the imprint of the creator and has its own silhouette.