Jacques Grinberg (1941-2011)
Read the introductory text to the work of Jacques Grinberg in the exhibition catalogJACQUES / MAO / MARYAN: HERE
Djeki Grinberg was born in 1941 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 1954, his family had to emigrate to Israel. He studied very young at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv and began to exhibit.
Arrived in Paris in 1962, henceforth signing his paintings JACQUES, he was quickly noticed in the salons and entered the Schoeller Jr. gallery in 1964. He was then considered an active force in New Figuration.
In the early 1970s, following the closure of the Schoeller gallery, he left briefly for Israel, then returned to Paris, traveled to Mexico, stayed in London.
From this period, his painting evolves strongly nourished by a great diversity of sources of inspiration.
Jacques Grinberg will not stop renewing his ideas and his visions until his death in 2011.
EXHIBITIONS
In the 1960s, Jacques Grinberg benefited from personal exhibitions at the Kaleidoskoop gallery in Ghent (Belgium) and at the André Schoeller Jr. gallery in Paris. He also participated in the salons that then punctuated the Parisian scene, as well as in a variety of collective exhibitions in galleries in France, Europe and New York.
In 1973, his Indian ink work was shown at Saint-Pierre Abbey in Ghent, while his lithographs (Seven possibilities in
10 ways) are exhibited at the Galerie de France.
During the decades 1980-1990, he exhibited several times in Israel (Dvir gallery, gallery 27) and Cérès Franco organized four exhibitions for him in Paris in his gallery L'Œil de Boeuf. In 2008, the Polad-Hardouin gallery included him in its exhibitionNew
extras: Act III.
After his death, a retrospective was held at the Cité Internationale des Arts and personal exhibitions began to be held in museums : Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (An uncompromising painter- 2016), Ein Harod Art Museum in Israel (Jacques Grinberg - Paintings- 2015).
Several galleries occasionally show his works (Le Minotaure gallery and Alain Le Gaillard gallery, Françoise Livinec gallery).
In 2016 and 2017, theCity of Paris Museum of Modern Artand theCentre Pompidouacquire important works (purchase and donation).
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