The subject of Jacques Thomann’s work is the expression of the human condition with its furies, its wounds and its fantasies.
His work is based on analyzing the images by observing his everyday life. He is taking his inspiration in many sources : newspaper, magazines, music, tv etc …
He is using all the possibilities of color, mixing the various tints of colors in a sort of patchwork, in an explosion of light.
Jacques Thomann's work crosses certain currents of the paint of the end of the XXth century, among them, in the 1970s, that of the narrative representation. He finds with Leonardo Cremonini, Henri Cueco, Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freund among others, the impulse of his creation.
Jacques Thomann's privileged theme is apparently the alive reality of the human being: a representation of the man in his social or natural environment on the scale of the infinitesimal or big. He takes up, by his perception of the alive, with the tradition of the paint of history.
He often represents regular people and he celebrates the humble objects which accompany the man in his daily life and which are within reach of his hand. He draws the attention on the most ordinary elements of the existence, perpetuates what risks to disappear, saves from the oversight what is threatened. The spontaneity of these journey diaries reveals a very personal and particuliar relationship with the color.
Jacques Thomann's painting is the adventure of a thought and a sensibility which uses the power of the color to make perceptible the mystery of people and objects which are familiar to us.
Selected exhibitions
Jacques Thomann was born in Paris (France) in 1951
Solo Shows (Selection)
- 2015 Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Strasbourg (France)
- 2013 Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Strasbourg
- 2010 Personnages haut en couleurs (duo show with Jim Delarge) Galerie Bertrand Gillig,
- 2009 Galerie Chantal Bamberger
- 2004 Bartholdi, Le Lion, Colmar et Belfort , Strasbourg (France)
- 2003 Galerie du Lézard, Colmar (France)
- 2002 Espace d'art contemporain André Malraux, Colmar
- 2002 Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France)
- 2000 kleine Schlossgalerie Weiher Ahorntal, (Germany)
- 1999 Galerie Rémy Bucciali,Colmar
- 1995 Studio arte/Arte. Verona, (Italy)
- 1994 Fond de scène. Festival de musique.
- 1994 Les Jardins de l'été. Colmar
- 1993 Galerie du Rhin, Colmar-Horbourg
- 1992 Galerie Euros, Mulhouse (France)
- 1990 Goethe Institut, Staufen, (Germany)
- 1990 Galerie Videmus, Freiburg, (Germany)
- 1988 Musée Bartholdi, Colmar (France)
- 1987 Centre culturel de Sint-Niklaas. Bât. di Cipierage, (Belgium)
- 1987 Atelier Bucciali, Colmar
Group shows (Selection)
- 2015 Pas si love, édition 2, Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2015 Paysage comtemporain, Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2014 Pas si Bêtes, édition 2, Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2011 Ouverture, Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2011 Papiers s'il vous plaît ! Galerie Bertrand Gillig –
- 2010 St-Art, International Art Fair, Strasbourg with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2009 Galerie Chantal Bamberger Strasbourg
- 2008 Editions Eric Linard Les acronymes
- 2008 Galerie Chantal Bamberger Strasbourg
- 2007 Espace d’art contemporain André Malraux Colmar
- 2004 Jardins des deux rives - Ceaac – Strasbourg-Kehl
- 2003 Biennale du Carnet de Voyage Clermond-Fd
- 2002 Galerie Lezard Colmar
- 1999 St-Art, Intern. Art Fair, Strasbourg with Galerie Bertrand Gillig with Galerie Bucciali
- 1997 Hanau, (Allemagne)
- 1997 Schloss Philips Ruhe (Germany)
- 1997 Crac Alsace
- 1995 Anghiari, (Italy)
- 1995 Musée de la ville de Györ, (Hungary)
- 1994 Fondation Transplantation, Colmar
- 1994 Fondation Transplantation, Mulhouse
- 1992 Traces + Signes-J.J.Henner
- 1992 Crac Altkirch
- 1991 Galerie du Faisan- Ardoises, Strasbourg
- 1990 Atelier Rémy Bucciali (monotypes)
- 1990 Galerie du Rhin, Colmar-Horbourg