by Jean-michel
Following the example of Reena Spaulings (New York, 2005), Jean-Michel, the artistic duo formed by Sophie Varin (Saint-Doulchard, France, 1993) and Antoine Carbonne (Paris, France, 1987) is at the same time the hand, the artist, and the character. At the very beginning, Sophie and Antoine hid themselves under this “pseudonym”.
Today, they stand more and more their position and set Jean-Michel as an actor, a protagonist of their artworks. He is not a “fake painter” anymore but a genuine fiction character.
The duo conceptualizes their project through stories narrated and shaped in the manner of non-linear adventures. Their stories have the specificity of not being followed as serial episodes, but independent from one another.
For Jean-Michel, each picture appears as an illustration of an imaginary story, a part of the storyboard or a decorative element of the set. To make their exhibitions livelier and to give more materiality to the narration, they complete...
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Jean-Michel is an artist duo composed of painters Sophie Varin and Antoine Carbonne. At first it was an androgynous alter ego to both artists, the product of its creators. Over time, they realized it was not a person but a space for free thinking, narratives and experimental work rather than an identity. Every exhibition they put up aims to tell a story – a tale even – driven by a motto that lies in the exhibition title. I Can Do It Anymore for instance was a show about adventure and renouncement. Be it in real life or in a...
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