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Jan Voss

JAN VOSS

A l'écoute Galerie Lelong 14 January–27 February 2021 38 Avenue Matignon, Paris
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The painter noticed that often a word or a short phrase either heard, read or imagined would be the catalyst for images emerging in his mind. This was particularly true during the long weeks of forced isolation the artist spent in his Berlin studio during the lockdown. Deprived of contact with the outside world, visually nothing new caught his attention. But words and phrases, most often in English, stuck in his mind and generated their pictorial counterpoint. He soon allowed these sometimes-insolent words, phrases and questions to penetrate the painting and, with a detached humour, create a certain agitation.

The result has been, and continues to be joyful and off-beat paintings where small, anonymous individuals are confronted with the many vagaries of life.

Jan Voss was born in 1936 in Hamburg (Germany). He lives and works between Paris and Berlin. After studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1956 to 1960, he moved to Paris and became a teacher at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, teaching there from 1987 to 1992. A monograph by Yves Michaud was published in 2001 and a second by Anne Tronche in 2015.

Major exhibitions have been dedicated to his work, including at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dunkerque in 2002, at the Palais Synodal in Sens in 2008 and at the Arnhem Museum in the Netherlands in 2010.An exhibition is scheduled for summer 2021 at the Espace d’art contemporain André Malraux in Colmar.

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Jan Voss was born in 1936 in Hamburg, Germany. He lives and works near Paris.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon KossoffLeon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 38 Avenue Matignon Paris France
Galerie Lelong
38 avenue Matignon, Paris, France
+33 171 722 699
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

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