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Jean-Marc CERINO
Born in Jallieu in 1965.
Jean-Marc Cerino’s work addresses the representation of people
met in various situations of life or even isolated from society. This is
seen in Dépositions I, II and III made with homeless men and women,
patients at a psychiatric centre or people in prison. In these wax-treated
white paintings, with close shades, two apparently contradictory gestures
occur that meet, telescope and converse without neutralising or
contradicting each other: that of the representation of these persons
and that of the monochromatic covering layer. This creates tension at
the level of the canvas between surface and depth, between the figures
represented and the background that they are tearing themselves from.
‘What is meant by this monochromatic base, this empty, abyssal
base, is a kind of deterritorialisation of these lives, their tearing away
or the shifting of the socio-economic context in which they have become
and are kept invisible for their recontextualisation or reterritorialisation
in the “bottomless base” of singular-plural, of the “with” or the
“in common”.
Jean-Marc Cerino - Le lieu en offrande.
Michel Gaillot.
‘In these figures painted by Jean-Marc Cerino, whiteness is
both a veil and simultaneously a kind of revealer ; it is whiteness that
must not be torn […] so as not to sink into too expressive a white or an
over-abundance of words that will smother the figure. This is what is
grasped astonishingly well in the between-two of Jean-Marc Cerino’s
work. It is never too much and never less. And at the same time you feel
very clearly that the slightest hitch can tip everything over into something
terrifying’.
L’inconvenance du corps.
Daniel Dobbels.
Regular exhibitions in France and abroad, represented by the Bernard
Ceysson gallery (Saint-Etienne / Luxembourg).
Writings in publications or catalogues devoted to Jean-Marc
Cerino’s work
Karim Ghaddab, Inventaire après liquidation, in… dans les lanières des
seuils, collection Varia, Fage éditions, 2008.
Daniel Dobbels, L’inconvenance du corps, collection Hôtel-Rivet, # 22,
éditions Esban 2008.
Bernard Stiegler, Le temps de la prison, in Dépositions III, 2006.
Michel Gaillot, Jean-Marc Cerino - Le lieu en offrande,
Villa du Parc, Annemasse 2005.
Itzhak Goldberg, L’impression de la mémoire, in “Jean-Marc Cerino -
Savoir, c’est se souvenir”, Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, 2000.
Jean-Luc Nancy, Passage.
Jean-Claude Conésa, Esse, est percip.
Être, c’est être perçu, Éditions des Cahiers Intempestifs,
Saint-Etienne 1999.
Jacques Beauffet, Jean-Marc Cerino,
Sicmmat Art Contemporain, 1996.
Jean-Marc Cerino is also a member of the editorial board of the journal
De(s)générations.
Passage de témoins/Témoin de passages,
La Galerie de l’artothèque, Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu, Lyon,
24 April - 10 July 2004.
Photo : Pierre Arnaud