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Jacques Coulais (1955-2011)French Expressionist Abstract Original PaintingMid 20th Century
Mid 20th Century
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Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) oil painting on un stretched canvas
unframed: 13 x 12.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists studio and are all featured in the artists Catalogue Raisonne.
Jacques, Paul, Firmin Coulais is a French painter born on March 22 , 1955 in Fenioux ( Deux-Sèvres ) and died at the age of 56, the June 25 , 2011 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres). Born into a farming family, he was the seventh of eight children.
Suddenly becoming a quadriplegic at the age of six following poliomyelitis, he overcame this handicap by building with determination an independent life centered on artistic practice and an intense social life. For more than thirty years his house and his workshop have been the center of attraction for many artists, art lovers or simply friends of Niort and all of France.
Coulais began to paint with his mouth, as an autodidact. In 1978, he made the acquaintance of a plastic art teacher who advised him and engaged him on the path of watercolour. The freedom granted to him by this technique as well as the flexibility of its application fascinate him. This meeting and the friendship shared with his teacher, lead him and very quickly direct his work from figurative to abstraction in a way that he explores and that he will then find in the works of Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
Admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, he studied there from 1981 to 1984 and obtained the National Superior Diploma in Plastic Expression at the age of 31. A few years later, Jacques Coulais exhibited at the Museum of Niort and since then, his career has been punctuated by his participation in numerous exhibitions organized very regularly in various French cities as well as abroad.
In the 1990s, the AAPBP, Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists, opened its doors to him. It gives artists the opportunity to support themselves and devote themselves to their art, free from worries and concerns.
Jacques Coulais becomes a scholarship holder of the Association. Two years later, he obtained the status of associate member. He has been a full member since 1998. This remarkable association organizes numerous artistic events every year. The painting of Jacques Coulais is most often abstract painting nourished by his training, his extensive and precise culture and the dreams, or more frequently nightmares, which populated his nights and whose memory he has preserved through four notebooks that he wrote himself. His painting is done either with his mouth or directly on the ground with the wheels of his chair.
He had a very thick paper or a canvas, usually square, installed at his table, the brushes, the colors. Anyone present could prepare their colours. He gave extremely precise instructions in everything and got exactly the shade he was looking for. They handed him the brush he was holding with his mouth. For large formats, the brush was attached to a rod that could reach a meter in length.
Mastering a very elaborate watercolor technique, he produces his works with his mouth with relentless meticulousness: a “pensive” painting made of “repetitive and patient gestures” which “are a matter of working on oneself ” . This painting refers either to the mandala - a multitude of stains and colors cover the surface and give it its rhythm and its light - or to the calligraphic painting, a singular writing, devoid of meaning whose main driving force is the unconscious, an abstract writing that only expresses its own aesthetics. “It is only a question of one thing, namely, the fundamental impossibility of describing, of writing a representation of the world. Perhaps it is only an attempt at poetic gesture!… For someone whose body has abandoned, gesture is vital.
Bibliography
Catalog of the exhibition at the Musée du Donjon , Niort, 1991.
In absentia , text by Ami Barak, works by Jacques Coulais, ACAPA Éditeur, 1992.
Of the sign, of the interpretation, of the incompleteness : interview with Paul Ardenne and Jacques Coulais, Revue La Licorne no 23 , 1992.
Art, the Contemporary Age , Paul Ardenne, Editions du Regard, 1997.
A small grammar of signs , Jacques Coulais, Cultural Action of the University of Poitiers, 2002.
Portfolio of 18 watercolours, text by Dominique Moncond'huy, 2003.
Paintings Please, Pay Attention, Please , Barbara Polla & Paul Ardenne, Editions Le Bord de l'Eau – La Muette collection, 2010.
Jacques Coulais Pictor Maximus, Body & Canvas . texts by Barbara Polla and Paul Ardenne, interview with Ali kazma, Éditions TAKE FIVE - Trait d'Union collection, 2011.
Continuum , texts by Jacques Coulais and Régis Busschaërt, Éditions Le Courtil des Roses, 2011.
- Creator:Jacques Coulais (1955-2011) (1955 - 2011, French)
- Creation Year:Mid 20th Century
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509313515952
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Solo Shows:
2019 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2018 Light Waves, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2017 New Works, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2016 Sailing in Place, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2013 Traveling Light, Tria Gallery, Manhattan NY
2012 New Work, Smink Modern, Dallas TX
2012 New Work, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2011 Awakenings (Duo with Keun Young Park) Tria Gallery, Manhattan NY
2010 New Paintings, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes NY
2008 Autumn Elegance, Asher Neiman Gallery, Red Bank NJ
2008 The Light Between, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes NY
2007 New Work, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2006 Of Line and Light, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes NY
2006 Abstractions, Gallery 100, Saratoga NY
2005 Spring Collection, Coffey Gallery, Kingston NY
2005 New Work, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2004 Summer, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck NY
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2003 Paintings from Shady, Coffey Gallery, Kingston NY
2001 Fisher Studio Art Gallery, Annandale-on-Hudson
Group Exhibitions:
2018 20th Anniversary Show, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2017 Due East: Woodstock Artists in Nantucket, Nantucket Arts Center, Nantucket, MA
2017 Composition: The Abstract Landscape, Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY
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2011 Figures and Abstractions, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
2010 Art Hamptons, Tria Gallery, Manhattan NY
2010 Featured Artist, Dragonfly Gallery, Martha's Vineyard MA
2009 LA Art Fair, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto CA
2009 Curators Choice, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes NY
2009 Instructors Exhibition, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock NY
2009 Group Exhibition, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto CA
2009 Small Works, Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta GA
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2008 5"x7" Show, Kleinart-James Gallery, Woodstock NY
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2006 Group Exhibition, James Cox Gallery, Woodstock NY
2006 Collectors Choice, Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY
2005 Group Exhibition, Chace Randall Gallery, Andes NY
2005 Passionate About Art, Kleinert/James Gallery, Woodstock NY
2005 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
2004 Six Women Painters, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie NY
2004 New York Underground Art Fair, Pool Art Addict, Four Points Hotel NY
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2002 Group Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
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2002 Hudson Valley Artists 2002, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz NY
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