Almine Rech now represents the Estate of Jean Miotte

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Almine Rech now represents the Estate of Jean Miotte
Portrait of Jean Miotte, Pignans, France, 1998. Courtesy of Jean Miotte Foundation. Photo: Sylvie Ruau.



PARIS.- Jean Miotte is one of the prominent figures of lyrical abstraction within the new School of Paris. Since the very beginning, he favored gestures and action to transpose an emotion testifying of his complex relationship with sensitive reality, a philosophical and spiritual experience in service of the symbolism of the image. His discours is born out of a semantics where he regards the sign as the “I” who paints: I am painting he declares. His approach tends to two extremes, on the one hand a writing at the height of thought and sensation, and jointly and exuberant spontaneity until the loss of oneself, in a ZEN spirit. This vocation of the void was manifested especially from 1962 on, following regular stays in New York where he bonds with Rothko and Motherwell. Miotte gives praise to white that has become light, and which “radiates and erases limits”, he says. The fluid space is cut across by vigorous flat areas that extend into hemmed waves, torn to shreds in a spatial labyrinth whose complacent pitfalls it suppresses.

His painting shows a return to polychromy with a palette of pure tones, favoring the primaries whose sounds he exploits. The use of brushes, spatulas, knives, allows the effervescence of a cursive graphic design in colors with rich, vibrant, and sharp accents for a moving universe governed by contradictory and dual forces. A dissemination appeared in the seventies and eighties, for a new cycle centered on metamorphosis. Between violence and refinement, density and transparency, fervor and revolt, Jean Miotte’s painting achieves the quivering balance of life. The rhythmic arabesque of its forms is an echo of the dance that inspires it. The unity of his language is realized in this informal lyricism which reaches a pictorial plenitude by managing to give substance to his sensations of light, to make an indefinable sacred coincide in the energy of living.

Jean Miotte, who exhibited in Paris with Joan Mitchell, Riopelle, and Sam Francis, transcends a singular and immediately recognizable body of work. — Lydia Harambourg, Historian Art Critic, Corresponding Member of the Institut de France, Academy of Fine Arts

"Jean Miotte painted intensively throughout his life. From the 50s onwards, he established himself as a major artist for his contemporaries, and in the 80s he was the first Western painter of lyrical abstraction to be successfully exhibited in China.

At one time, his work was widely exhibited, but at the end of his life and after his death, until very recently, it no longer enjoyed the visibility afforded by galleries. Looking at his prolific oeuvre today, we realize that he can be seen as a "classic"
of lyrical abstraction, and it's time to show his work again." — Almine Rech










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