REYMOND Jacob (France)

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Iannis Xenakis - Keqrops

Pascal Dusapin. Trio Rombach III

Lives and works in Vauvenargues

After having started very young with painting, then spending years exploring other artistic practices, Jacob Reymond devotes himself fully to painting and drawing in his studio in Vauvenargues, at the foot of the Sainte Victoire mountain.

“I have always had an artistic activity, theater in my youth (actor and director) cinema as a director of documentary films, general manager on feature films... I have also played in 24 films, the last one being „The Horseman on the Roof” by Giono (after that I did not want to play in movies anymore because I did not feel like an actor) and I have devoted myself to painting. For a few years, I have also been doing performances as part of my exhibitions with live painting done with musicians by my side (or myself interpreting my own music on the cello or piano) sometimes with a dancer so as to have both image, sound and movement. I have obviously in my youth, from the age of 17 when I ran away from home, done a lot of odd jobs...”

STATEMENT

Jacob Reymond has a musical brush. And not only the brush, he also has the musical body, a whole body. One only has to observe the artist when he executes a painting during a performance : the work he is listening to is applied in rhythm to a large cloth and we see the music, as it flows, appears and shows itself in a visible garment. Each movement, each phrase of the musical composition is propagated in the mobility of the hand, of the wrist, in the physical engagement of the painter in order to take flesh (...)

Lively gesture, and even cheerful, so much lines, curves and volutes of the evoked scores run, dance, twirl with a rejoicing euphoria on the paper or the fabric! At the same time as in the time of sounds, we travel in space, as carried away by an air fever...

Alain Blanc “Danser sur le papier”, Instant instinct, Editions Voix d’encre, 2018

PREFACE

I always have painted to music. For some years now, my work has been inspired by music,

classical and contemporary, but also jazz and my improvisations. I now paint music.

In my studio, I choose a music whose desire comes sometimes from far away, or is aroused by friendly and musical encounters, inspirations of the moment.

Once the music is chosen, I listen to it for a long time, attentively, sometimes deciphering from different interpreters. Then comes the moment of my own interpretation, on canvas or on paper. The graphic transcription - lines, forms and colors - is often in a temporal context close to the musical interpretation.

The music of J. S. Bach, as well as that of the French composers Pascal Dusapin and Philippe Hersant, or that of the Italian Giacinto Scelsi, have sustained me these last few years and encouraged

me to continue painting. This exhibition is composed of transcriptions in paintings of their music.

Jacob Reymond September 2021

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