Jean Arcelin

Jean Arcelin (born 22 June 1962) is a French and Swiss painter.

Arcelin studied at Charpentier, a licensed art history school at the Sorbonne, where he developed an interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting. His paintings incorporate elements of false realism and figurative art, as well as some elements of Baroque.

His pictorial compositions are simply the results of his imagination without any cinematographic aids, using principally the oil canvas technique called "alla prima", keen to the original impressionist painters, which cancels the initial undercoated and glazed steps. Landscapes edge with the urban sea, and combine with portraitist gesture. He takes corners of Paris, cafe chairs piled up in the angle of view of a monument, or the dressing room of a theatre, and portrays them empty of all human presence. He participated in the Ebel sponsored Art and Culture in Basel and in Villa Schwob, Switzerland from 1990 to 1995 and exhibited in 1989, 1990 and 1999 at the Institut de France.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * Since 2006: Galerie 26 Place des Vosges, Paris.
 * 2013: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA.
 * Since 2012: Besharat Gallery, Barbizon.
 * Since 2010: Besharat Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
 * 2010, 2011: Ariel Sibony Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris.
 * 2010, 2011: Sibman Gallery, Place des Vosges, Paris.
 * 2010, 2015: Galerie Fert, Yvoire, France.

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2011, 2012, 2013: Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL.
 * 2010, 2011, 2012: The Affordable Art Fair (AAF), New York City.
 * 2011: Scope Basel, Switzerland.
 * 2011: ArtMRKT, San Francisco, CA.
 * 2011: Scope, New York City.
 * 2011: Lille Art Fair.
 * 2011: MIA Art Fair, Miami, FL.
 * 2010: The Red Dot, Miami, FL.
 * 2010: Art London, Chelsea.

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