artist/ Pincemin

France

Jean-Pierre Pincemin is born in Paris in 1944. This artist never ceased to explore “ways” to paint and to create multiform work.
Then he learns the trade of a turner, he takes pleasure in painting by attending the Louvre. He integrates the industry and during his free time, frequents the Parisian galleries while following the work of avant-garde artists. He has a passion for jazz, is interested in serial music and practice experimental cinema. Self-taught and inspired by the industrial world, it is from this period that his first works date.
In 1967, thanks to the Art Gallery owner Jean Fournier, Jean-Pierre Pincemin meets Claude Viallat, who also creates free canvas paintings composed of assemblages, collages and prints of objects from real life. That same year, at the Salon de la Youth Sculpture, Pincemin shows his works made of wood found and stacked. He performs a series of ” free-paintings” by printing on the surface objects immersed in the dye before performing in 1969, his first “Glued Squares”. In 1969 also, Pincemin and Viallat organize at the Special School of Architecture of Paris an exhibition presenting the work of Noel Dolla, Bernard Pagès, Daniel Dezeuze Marcel Alocco and Patrick Saytour. These artists, followers of a radical abstraction, create the group Support / Surfaces that Pincemin soon joins, a group whose practices and commitments are relatives of his. Jean-Pierre Pincemin composes geometric paintings and orthogonal, and quasi-monumental architecture, which lead him to three-dimensional works.
In 1973, he freed from the Support-Surface group. From 1974 he produces his series of “Palisades” or ” Portals”, large geometric paintings, architectural works consist of large horizontal and vertical stripes in subtle colors. From the 80s, Jean-Pierre Pincemin develops monumental sculptures that result from stacks or assemblies of recycled materials. These explorations of materials and ways are numerous and continue throughout his life.
In 1984 (exhibition Gallery of France), Jean-Pierre Pincemin shows completely different paintings, works where the geometry gives way to identifiable forms. In 1986 with the series called “year in India”, he keeps up perfectly with the figuration. Primitive Figures, animals and plants adorn the surface of large canvases. Follow the comings and goings from geometry to figuration. His work is finally inspired by medieval imagery and refers to the Japanese print, or (for collectively works known as “continental drift” in 1984) to mapmaking.
The work of Jean-Pierre Pincemin is built freely outside all constraints of genres.”I try to find a balance between seduction and disappointment so that the viewer can take over the painting and gives it a purpose,” says Jean-Pierre Pincemin.
Note that Jean-Pierre Pincemin has, in parallel with his painted, built a very large graphic work begun in the year 1971; the artist practices printmaking through various processes (See catalog raisonné: Pincemin – Printmaking 1971-1997, Somogy Art Editions (Editions d’Art), 1998).
Jean-Pierre Pincemin dies in Arcueil in 2005: he is 61 years.