Jorj Morin

Georges Morin was born in Cholet in 1909. In 1931, he settled in Nantes as a freelance graphic designer, then worked as an advertising designer until the mid-1960s, with a clear, uncluttered style tinged with humor, for Biscuiterie Nantaise, Cassegrain, Cinzano, Petit Navire, Decré...

From the 1930s onwards, he pursued a personal quest through drawing, painting and in 1947 engraving. Morin became an active member of the Nantes-based group of artists Archipel.

Tapestry and mosaic will be experimented from the 50s and will give way in the late 60s to the monumental with about thirty installations in schools and colleges mainly.

Many galleries presented his work in Nantes (Convergence), Paris (La Demeure), Lyon (L'œil écoute). Morin also organized solo exhibitions in Brussels, Essen-Werden, Hamburg, Augsburg and Köln.

His closeness to Louis Ferrand, a friend and painter from Nantes of the Archipel group, will be concretized by a common exhibition at the Château des Ducs de Bretagne in 1991.

In 1980, the artist moved to La Poissonnière (Angers) where he continued his work as a painter and engraver until his death on May 13, 1995. It is in 2018 that the Morin family makes a donation of engravings, to the Museum of Arts in Nantes.

The Polymorphie exhibition organized in 2020 by the Gaïa Gallery can be defined by many terms, but the term retrospective is not one of them. Thus, it is about the desire to make an audience unfamiliar with Morin's art discover how exciting it is to watch an artist confront different media that offer jubilant constraints. It doesn't matter what the dates of these past works are, because in the present, his clear lines and color palette intimately thrill us.