art-de-la-rue-autoportrait-sur-support-de-recup-2012-0-60x0-52.jpg Painting by Jean Starck

JEAN STARCK UN NÉO PRIMITIF URBAIN POST- MODERNE

Né en 1948 dans les (Vosges) XX siècle Français.Peintre de collage.Abstrait matiériste et néo primitif.Appartient au groupe Transmigration,puis au groupe Art Cloche.Il fît des études esthétiques et théâtrales à Paris,où il vit depuis 1974.En 1980 ,il rencontre Dubuffet et l'année suivante fonde le groupe Transmigration.Il fut membre du groupe A C- fondé en 1981,qui occupa "un squat" de la rue d'Arcueil à Paris,groupe informel contestataire se réclamant de Dada et de Fluxus groupe initiateur et théoricien du mouvement des squats d'artistes.Il expose en France et à l'étranger,participant notamment aux expositions du groupe Transmigration et Art-Cloche de 1981 à 1988.Il réalise une longue dérive qu'il appelle la quête immobile entre 1989 et 1993 .Cette quête des origines , le rattache au mouvement néo primitif .Parallèlement ,il confectionne des collages assemblages d'éléments hétéroclites qu'il appelle "Des squattings" dans la lointaine suite de Kurt Schwitters.Il a réalisé plusieurs happenings et performances à Paris à Bologne Amsterdam dans les années 80. .Et de nombreuses interventions sous forme de vidéos performances dans les années 2000.
Bibliogr:In:Art Cloche.Eléments pour une rétrospective.Squatt artistique catalogue de ventes,Mr Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr.Janvier 1989.
Ventes publiques:Paris,1984.Paris 1988.Etudes primitives techniques mixtes(82x101)FR 5100 -Paris 30 janvier 1989:Au musée.Mixte/carton.h/t.FRF 3500- Paris 26 avril 1990:Cheval cosmique.tech mixte/pan.(125x145) FRF 16000- Paris 29 nov.1992:Portrait aux deux ors,technique mixte/t.(1,30x1,14)FRF 7000.


JEAN STARCK - A TIMELESS PIONEER OF URBAN ART Jean Starck is a pioneer of the street art movement. As Art-Cloche, between 1981 and 1989, the group launched the first artistic occupancy movement in Paris that developed from within abandoned industrial buildings. In the 1990s a whole generation of artists rushed into the breach created by Art-Cloche. New alternative artistic practices appeared. On obsolete sites occupied by the artists a new art form was created, that involved the squatting of these sites. This movement has become a turning point within the French art scene. A retrospective of the history of the movement took place in 2002 at the Palais de Tokyo, thereby offering an historical dimension to this manifestation of urban art. Alongside his iconoclastic activities with Art-Cloche, Jean Starck has expressed a philosophical quest for art through excesses and especially through his metaphysical wanderings. These activities include the creation in 1981 of the Transmigration group just before the creation of the Art-Cloche group, art groups that conducted experimental excursions that follow those conducted before them by the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Thus the artistic work that Jean Starck engaged in between 1981 and 1991 is directly related to the Transmigration group. Similarly, in 1998, this work was extended via the construction and deconstruction of a Universal Mandala. These timeless works were undertaken within the scope of the Transmigration quest to rekindle qualities of transience, freedom and magic within artworks.
In work undertaken by Jean Starck since 2000 contradictions and constraints resulting from urban iconography are explored. The artist has illustrated through primitive means the human soul and the world of painting, using series of collages and other mixed techniques including assemblies and symbols (such as dogs, portraits, recycled posters and squatting manifested as an art of reconstruction), thus multiple techniques that reflect the syntactic complexity of our current world.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1948
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists