Monsieur Jaber

A partir du 5 janvier 2024, date de sa naissance, Jaber refait l expo de 2015 dans la galerie Bise'Arts de Bagnols-sur-Cèze 

Vernissage à partir de 18 h 30. 

Comme toujours, quelques surprises.

Jaber
né en 1938 en Tunisie
vit et travaille à Paris - FRANCE


Principales expositions après 1970
1971 Plainfield Festival of art (USA)
1977 American Center for students and Artists, Paris
1978 Foire Internationale d'Art, Paris
1978 Procope, Paris
1978 Salon d'hiver, Paris
1979 Nouveau Salon de Paris
1980 Salon d'Hiver, Paris
1983 L'Aracine, Neuilly sur Marne
1983 Galerie Alif Ba, Casablanca, Maroc
1984 Galerie L'Oeil de Buf, Paris
1985 Autour de Chaissac, Eymoutiers
1986 Les Indomptés de l'Art, Besancon
1986 Galerie Es Llimoner, Ibiza, Espagne
1986 Seguda Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
1987 L'Art Brut, Blanc Mesnil
1987 Les Elephants sont parmi nous, Musée de Dieppe
1988 Galerie Jacques Karamanoukian, Detroit, USA
1988 Singuliers, bruts, naïfs? Musée d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris
1990 Galerie Michèle Sadoun, Paris
1990 Galerie Marc Espinosa, Paris
1993 Galerie Scavongelli, Rome et Paris
1994 Galerie Michel Ray, Paris
1995 Galerie El Haouaini, Le Caire, Egypte
1996 Les Jardiniers de l'Art Bègles
1997 Galerie Saslow, Chicago, USA
1997 Halle St Pierre, Paris
1998 Galerie du Hof, Butgenbach, Belgique
1999 Stadshof, Zwolle, Pays-Bas
2000 Outsider Art Fair New-York, USA
2001 Galerie Marina Monsatir, Tunisie
2001 Palais de Justice, Monastir, Tunisie
2003 Galerie Margret , Santa Fe, USA
2004 Conseil Général Seine et Marne, Torcy, France
2005 Conseil Général Auvergne, Rodez, France
2005 Ville de St Petersbourg, Russie
2006 Pavillon Diane, Paris 4

Est présent dans les Collections spécialisées publiques à Amsterdam, Bègles, Boston, Bruxelles, Berlin, Chicago, Dicy, Gand, La Gaude, Lagrasse, Lausanne, Monastir, Neuilly sur Marne, Oslo, Paris, Saint-Petersbourg, Villeneuve d'Asque, Zwolle,

Jaber EL MAJOUB was born in 1938 in a family from shepherds from Me Saken (suburbs of Sousse) in Tunisia. With the 6 years age it lost his mother and was practically raised by his sister. He could not attend the school because he was destinated to keep the animals to nourish its family. It thus never could learn how to read and write. In 1958 it takes the direction of Marseilles and works there as baker before going up to Paris two years later. The little children of the baker of the street of the Servites still remember him, because the grandfather carefully preserved some parts of Jaber. Indeed as soon as it had a pause, it drew by ground with the charcoal and made cook the bread dough in the shape of bird, fish or flower. The afternoon, it sold its gouaches and amused the public places St Michel. It was also interested in boxing and carried out 17 engagements. Its talents of singer-author-type-setter opened to him the doors of the Small Academy of Mireille. It recorded two 45 turns at Pathé-Marconi. A few years later, he was discovered by an American rich person who took it along to America. He had discovered rightly that it had the breadth to become an artist of international size. They married quickly and Jaber accepted a gallery of best placed at San Francisco. At the end of a few months, the gallery had become the place of appointment of all the followers of the scene flower-power and the trade hardly troubled it. It preferred to offer its work. In 1971, it obtained the first price of painting among 800 candidates in Plainfield Art Festival. It became famous, but its marriage was a failure. Return in Paris it exposed in 1977 to American Center of Artists which started again its career in Paris. His/her friends and collectors made it take part or organized for him many prestigious exposures. He entered considerable private and public collections all over the world and appears in all the Museums devoted to Rough Art or Outsider. As for many artists, his period of glory knew its decline with the crisis of the end of 1990. The galleries which defended it disappeared. Instead of deploring, it took its fate in hand by selling again its gouaches this time in the district Beaubourg, new high place of the contemporary art. Unfortunately times had changed and it was stopped many times. It found the parade by simply pushing the door of the galleries, bookshops, coffees or restaurants. About thirty Parisian places propose its works permanently, without however devoting an exposure to him. It systematically ruins them. Jaber is the striking example of integration. Tunisian immigrant, without knowing neither to read neither to write, without to have ever touched any social help neither unemployment, nor RMI, it leaves himself there more than honestly. It however wishes to live very modestly, in anonymity and quietude. He invites only very rare people with his workshop. He developed a very personal working method: Combing the night, it gets under way as of midday to sell on line its work with the galleries, collectors, experts or passers by. As for the market-gardeners, which is not sold at the end of the day is given or offered.

... dans la vie tout le monde veut bouffer l'autre. Moi, je me bouffe moi-même ....