Jean-Yves Pennec

France • 1958

Biography

"To create, an artist can seize the most ordinary material and without altering its appearance, completely transform it, this is what Jean-Yves PENNEC achieves... The magic of art that, transmuting a most mundane material, gives us this special emotion that we experience when we discover a reality that we have never seen." Charles Juliet

Born in 1958, Jean-Yves Pennec studied philosophy in Brest and Tours. He lives and works in Quimper and has been exhibiting since 1996.