Jérémie Baldocchi,
Born 1975, France
Practices
“Management” Magazine
“Famille Magazine” Magazine
“Psychologie Magasine” Magazine
“Figaro Madame” Magazine
Images R.A.T.P for the B.D.D.P agency
Painting for the M.G Conseil agency
Painting at Champs / Marne Mayor
“A nous Paris” Newspaper
Books Editions: «Bodies and Souls» and
«The book that when I have got some small pleasures and small hassle I write in it»
Selected Favorit Artist by Elsa Lenghini on the TV show "Tea or coffee" (France 2 channel)
Training
3-year cycle in the illustration-graphic Institute of Professional Decoration skills
Sketch class «live models» at ADAC school. Paris
Fine Arts Workshop Paris
Exhibitions
Jeremie Baldocchie, French Artist
List Of Exhibition in English and French:
English version:
10/ 2010 Showroom «Edouard Rambaud», Paris, Solo
09/ 2010 “Mickeyland” Galery «Art Présent», Paris, Group
12/ 2009 Fnac Boulogne, Boulogne Billancourt, Solo
11/ 2009 Galery «Espora», Madrid, Spain, Solo
09/ 2009 30 years anniversary Fnac Forum des Halles exhibition, Paris, Solo
07/ 2009 Galery «l’Art de Rien», Paris, Solo
03/ 2009 Contemporary Art sale in bid in Starsbourg, France, Group
03/ 2009 Collective exhibition with the Collect’Art, Paris
12/ 2008 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
03/ 2008 Bookstore Glenat, Grenoble, Solo
03/ 2008 Business School, Grenoble, Group
02/ 2008 Yono Bar, Paris, Solo
12/ 2007 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
12/ 2006 Fnac Forum des Halles Paris, Solo
05/ 2006 Galery «La Hune-Brener», Paris, Solo
01/ 2006 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
01/ 2005 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
11/ 2004 Exhibition at The Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Group
12/ 2003 Fnac Forum des Halles Paris, Solo
07/ 2003 Galery «La Hune-Brener», Paris, Solo
01/ 2003 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
04/ 2002 Galery «La Hune-Brener», Paris, Group
12/ 2001 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
06/ 2001 Galery «Le Regard», Paris, Solo
12/ 2000 Fnac Forum des Halles, Paris, Solo
My work
I am a contemporary and figurative and surrealistic painter.
I exhibited my first work 11 years ago.
I work with large formats: 160x120 cm, but also with 60x80 cm size.
My paintings are made of acrylic, ink and collage on laminated wood.
Regarding my work, I wish I could make thinks more attractive that theirs seems to be.
All those that some people love and many others hate. That’s exactly what fascinates me.
The fact that our eyes do not reflect us the same world, thinks and people’s vision.
This theme reaches the obsession I have for the body, all these deviations, distortions, defects or disproportions whose fascinate me.
The colours are bright in a cosy interior but the characters’ embarrassment is strongly present. I’m inspired from the daily, the foibles and habits’ people and the absurdity of some situations of life.
Interview:
Jérémie Baldocchi is a young artist just 30 years. He soon lost interest in school to devote himself to drawing. Featuring a private institution at 16 years, he perfected his style ...
Today, he exhibited his paintings to people so curious and fascinating disproportionate.
This artist has kindly answer these questions:
Interview by Bérangère.B
When looking at your paintings, we see all the colours before the patterns. You feel caught in a colourful world, a world stained. Do you colour brings more meaning to the picture forms?
Although the colours are very important forms of my characters are, they obviously essential to my images/interview-2. Some argue that just the bright colours I use to do better to accept the side "morbid" my characters. This may not be more wrong I think they serve me to develop these tortured bodies.
And on reflection I think I try to show that whatever the colour of the society around us the "ill-being that is within us" exists and persists at all costs.
2 - Your characters have no head, no face. One would think that they have no identity. Is there a desire to go beyond the singularity, that is to say, the desire to make timeless body, almost indefinite?
Humans, throughout his life, trying as best he can, to keep things they think they have acquired.
Some try to perpetuate the youth of their body, others, well, dream of eternal life.
I think an artist, more than any other, has the desire to exist and survive.
My characters are like us, they are not timeless but instead they are trapped in a space-time. They are stuck in this tiny slice of life in the same manner as a photograph.
Obviously for me the dedication is to continue my images/interview-2 so that they become eternal, and therefore timeless but that only time will decide.
3 - You seem attracted to the feminine. The roundness of the characters in point. You said in an interview that you would have perhaps liked to dress up (...)
So the paint is it to you a change of identity?
Small clarification I was talking about costumes as a child and thus disguise.
It is true that I would have liked to be a woman but I feel very good boy and not for the world I would not change.
By cons I am fascinated by transvestites, be they men or women is the fact of change of identity that I like the fact of changing its external image like that one is at the inside.
I'm actually attracted to anything that is round, for evidence from me I have no wall at right angles.
Failure to represent almost exclusively for women is a way of living through them like a child telling stories with his toys.
4 - The body is at the heart of your paintings. This seems to be the main theme. The body design is subjective, expressive: can one speak of a philosophy of art in your body?
I will always remember one of the many comments of Francis, that teacher to whom I owe so much.
At a collective presentation of tables on a given theme I try to explain what I have shown what I wanted to tell. Then after having listened at length it makes me understand that we do not need all these elements and symbols in the image. There is no use either to add humour to give strength or even a sense of the visual that my style is already well steeped in character, my characters speak for themselves.
Since these words are echoes in my head. The body is just unveiled by adding as little artifice as possible.
5 - Women are very present in your paintings. This is reminiscent of the video "My territory" of the group Grand Popo Football Club. Can you confirm this analogy?
I do not know anything about this clip before you to tell me.
It depicts, in a playful way, the "ends" of female body, legs, mouths, breasts, which seem to live for themselves. The clip is really good, it is mostly very silly.
Unlike the clip, my entire body is represented. While the heads are not represented physically but they are strongly present. The men also are present, either in the next room or in the heads of these women which seem to be quite alone.
6 - You said in an interview that "The corset, among other things, serves this purpose, beyond the fact that this is something typically female (much to my regret). "But today, some men wear corsets. Would you dare to be a feminized male?
In fact I think the corset is a beautiful accessory used to deceive the people's eyes.
I think women have much luck, although for total parity between men and women I am not convinced that certain objects, clothes or "social codes" can accommodate everyone.
We find in my paintings 3 types of sex, women, men and transvestites. But even if my body is never disproportionate men are feminized.
7 - You paint forms disproportionate. Is there a desire for the sublime, grandiose and exaggeration of yourself in your paintings?
When I was young I loved that they look at me, I liked being the centre of the "world" but the time well and I left my place to showcase my art. It's all that matters now.
I do not try at all to put myself forward in my paintings, not far away. I regularly do self-portraits but nothing more is just to show others what vision I have of myself.
8 - Your inspiration is it only your personal experience? Apparently, once you suffer a weight problem. You've lost 40kg in 2 months. Such speed can radically alter the entire image of his own body and the relation it maintains. Art is, for some artists, a projection of themselves, a kind of therapy. But are you inspired by something other than yourself?
Attention should not mix everything, I think my attraction to deformed bodies and dislocated started following my weight loss there to fifteen this year. Indeed, having changed body in just 2 months I was deeply marked. My goal is not to perpetually, directed this story. I think more like you said, a sort of "therapy". I am inspired by many things, most of which feed my inspiration. Certain, cons by surprise, are not there such as my taste for pious images/interview-2 and statutes or my collections of magic wands and those pictures of pigeons smashed.
My life is not like all her scenes, I just put things and I love the colours.
9 - In an audio interview, you said "want to be fat but appear thin socially." Thinness, and more widely in appearance, is a major concern of people. Is there a release yourself in your painting that could be likened to a fantasy of social integration?
The least we can say is that my painting is not very socially integrated.
I'm not a very sociable. My world view, there is less than 10 years, was still rosy.
The sky was pink, there were ponies and rainbow magic flowers. I realize, as time passes, that it was an illusion, as if these layers of kindness, generosity and beauty, is painted on the dirt, peeling off soon.
10 - In a way, what you put on stage is ugly as exaggerated. This is somewhat reminiscent of Jerome Bosch. The shapes do not have that aesthetic character which is generally attributed to art. Do you think the painting should go beyond the concept of beauty? What is the 'beautiful' to you?
That is a question, my time, very interesting, but unfortunately I have no answer.
Beauty is so subjective. Each of us has a vision so different in each person.
Some will be attracted to a certain type of shapes or shades of colors that others will hate it. It is precisely this that fascinates me, the fact that the world around us does not reflect the same way in all of us. I have to wonder, at once, how you see my painting? Do you see the same thing as me?
11 - How would you describe your art: Naive? Surreal? Pop art? Avant-garde ?
At one time I was fascinated by the current "Bauhaus". I found it incredible that school alone can cause a current that would revolutionize a lot of artistic principles.
Each of the currents through the generations has brought something new.
The most "futuristic", perhaps, for the period were currents Dadaist and Surrealist.
I never really managed to position my work in any category.
Yet I did not invent anything! Let time do things …
Painted Horse. Acrylic on Cardboard. 100x160cm
Saturday. Friend's Party. Acrylic & Collage. 100x160cm
