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RESUME
A self-taught artist, I was born in 1971 in Orthez, a small town set in South Western France between the Wine Country and the Pyrenees.
In 1994, I found a reel of pewter wire on the counter of my chemistry lab. I began shaping small decorative motifs based on one-line drawing, with this wire. This craft-making technique also known as wire-art released instantly my bottled creativity.
Feeling the inner need to explore the world through art making, this modest art form gave me the liberty to develop a creation at the cross between newspaper cartoon, art brut and symbolism.
Between 2003 and 2005, driven by the desire to confront my sculptures/paintings to other cultures, I began an around the world trip and presented my art to children in Chile, Senegal, Israel, France and India (see video section).
Since then I have had personnal and collective shows in the South of France and in Spain.
In 2014 I was part of the Fountain Art Fair at the park Avenue Armory with the artists collective Hullabaloo.
In 2012 my work "Looking for new art" was featured by Jayson Musson (aka hennessy Youngman) for the facebook presentation of the collective show "itsa Small Small World" at Family Business in Chelsea. More details below.
forsans15@gmail.com
Born in 1971, live and work in Orthez, France.
No gallery representation.
SOLO EXHIBITS
2023 Ligne de Front(s), Passage Carnot, Pau, France
2021: Ligne d'Horizon, Chapelle de la Persévérance, Pau, France
2018: Now Is The Time, Marché de Lerme, Bordeaux, France.
2012: Panorama 2006-2012, Atrium Culture, Dax, France.
The cave, Atalante Theater, Bayonne, France.
2011: Ashes in the Eyes, Art & Culture Museum, Lescar, France.
The Cell, Chapel of the Perseverance, Pau, France.
2010: Childhood, La Galerie d'Art, Mourenx, France.
2007: Oeuvres 2000-2007, Art en Stalles gallery, Pouzac, France.
2003: Jérôme Forsans, La Despernada Art Center, Villañueva de la Cañada (Madrid), Spain.
2002: Le Fil de la Vie, Espacio Meteora Art Center, Sevilla, Spain.
2001: Fil(s) d'Amour, French Cultural Institut of Seville, Sevilla, Spain.
SOLO PROJECT
2006: Jérôme Forsans As seen by the World's Children, Halle des Chartrons, Bordeaux, France
2004-2006 : Exhibits in schools in France, Senegal, Israel, Chile, and India.
GROUP EXHIBITS
2022: My body/My choice, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn
2020: Clio Art Fair, New York
2019: Wish You Were Here, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn
2018: 6x6, Rochester Contemporary Art Center (Roco), NY
2015: "You've got mail!", Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn.
2014: Fountain Art Fair, with the collective Hullabaloo, Park avenue Armory, New-York.
2012: Itsa Small Small World, curated by Jayson Musson (aka Hennessy Youngman) at Family Business Gallery, Chelsea, New-York.
2003: Brave Destiny, surrealism and outsider artists, at the"Williamsburg Art and Historical Center" Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Characterism, Pop Culture Art in USA and Japon, at the "Williamsburg Art and Historical Center", Brooklyn, New-York, USA.
2001: Strip-Art 7th Mostra of young creators from Barcelona, Espai Jove Boca Nord, Barcelona, Spain.