Jacques Halbert

Jacques Halbert, born in 1955 in Bourgueil, is a contemporary French artist. He attended the Brassart school then the Bourges School of Fine Arts. In the 1980s, he moved to the United States. He bought the Art Café in New York where he organized numerous exhibitions, notably by Ken Friedmann, Ben Vautier, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, before opening the Magnifik Gallery at the end of the 90s. Jacques Halbert has been living in France since. the 2000s. His art is characterized by two guidelines: performance and painting. His plastic work is reduced almost exclusively to applying one or more cherries on a monochrome canvas. Jacques Halbert himself defines this neo-Dadaist and often parodic posture of the figure of the artist as "a manifesto of good taste".