Jacques Dominioni

Born in Paris to Italian parents in 1934, Jacques Dominioni began learning drawing, painting and sculpture very early. From the age of 14, alongside his training as an art cabinetmaker with the “Compagnons de l'Art du Trait", he studied academic drawing at the Louvre Museum, an essential approach before he addresses color in painting or drawing.

In 1954, he left Paris and settled in the south of France. He then studied ceramics and carpentry in Vence. There he met Raymond Dauphin, an Antibois painter, close to the second School of Paris and friend of Picasso, who trained him in colors and landscapes.

The landscapes of the South of France which constitute his daily life will also strongly influence his painting in terms of color. Thus, the contrasts are revealed in a direct link with the Mediterranean settings that surround it. The colors that appear on these canvases are made of shimmering ranges linked to the Provençal land which is reminiscent of the Italy of its origins.

He is supported by the painters Raymond Dauphin and Marcello Avenali but feels the need to move away to free himself from their work.

Freed from his masters, he began research work and moved towards geometric abstraction. He composes very constructed paintings with pure and contrasting colors from which emanate great expressive force. The first works that he truly considered were then born.

Outside of fashion and the trends of his time, Jacques Dominioni's geometric period extends from the 1970s to the 1990s and goes through different movements: Cubism, Orphism, Hard edge...

At the beginning of the 1980s, he settled permanently in La Tardière in Vendée where his workshop remains in which the entire artistic life of Jacques Dominioni is condensed and preserved.