His painting shows a return to polychromy with a palette of pure tones, favoring the primaries whose sounds he exploits. The use of brushes, spatulas, knives, allows the effervescence of a cursive graphic design in colors with rich, vibrant, and sharp accents for a moving universe governed by contradictory and dual forces. A dissemination appeared in the seventies and eighties, for a new cycle centered on metamorphosis. Between violence and refinement, density and transparency, fervor and revolt, Jean Miotte’s painting achieves the quivering balance of life. The rhythmic arabesque of its forms is an echo of the dance that inspires it. The unity of his language is realized in this informal lyricism which reaches a pictorial plenitude by managing to give substance to his sensations of light, to make an indefinable sacred coincide in the energy of living.

Jean Miotte, who exhibited in Paris with Joan Mitchell, Riopelle, and Sam Francis, transcends a singular and immediately recognizable body of work.

— Lydia Harambourg, Historian Art Critic, Corresponding Member of the Institut de France, Academy of Fine Arts

Press release courtesy Almine Rech. Text: Lydia Harambourg, Historian, Writer, Art Critic, Corresponding Member of the Institut de France, Académie des beaux-arts.