Jean Denant (Sète, France, 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work, which moves between painting, architecture, design, and sculpture, explores new fields through a plural practice that in turn investigates the nature of materials, gestures, a...
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Jean Denant (Sète, France, 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work, which moves between painting, architecture, design, and sculpture, explores new fields through a plural practice that in turn investigates the nature of materials, gestures, and identity, and always reflects on the concept of reconstruction. A graduate in Applied Arts, he also studied Fine Arts in Toulouse and Krakow. He is represented in France by the Anne de Villepoix gallery (Paris) and in Spain by the RocioSantaCruz gallery (Barcelona). As Solenne Bertrand explains, Jean Denant's work questions the human through architecture. Considering that architecture redefines the world in which human beings evolve, the artist questions human nature through creative gesture. In Jean Denant's work, architecture functions as a poetic and philosophical metaphor to take the pulse of the world. Whether a building or a human story, everything can be reduced to the concept of construction. The artist therefore invites us to engage in a continuous attempt at construction and deconstruction, seeking to generate new perspectives and to open cracks in the foundations of hegemonic discourse. In his works, Denant plays with architecture, using simple, typical construction materials: by giving them an artistic purpose, he provokes a deliberate discrepancy between the nobility of the gesture and the precariousness of the materials. His work challenges definitions and blurs the boundaries between art and reality, thus connecting with the proposals of post-structuralist philosophy. His work is present in several public and private collections, including the Fundació Vila Casas, the Fondation Carmignac (Paris and Ile de Porquerolles, France), the Fondation Villa Datris (Paris), the Kingdom of Belgium, the IKONE collection in Geneva, the FRAC LR (Montpellier) and the Musée Paul Valéry (Sète, France). His work has been part of important exhibitions and both solo and collective projects in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Geneva, Russia, China, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates and Seoul.
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