Jacques SELLE

Criticism

There is no doubt that Jacques SELLE owes his rare ability to love beauty and transpose it into his painting to the fact that he was born in Fécamp. These paintings are not only admirable: they assert a vitality and quality rarely seen in an artist, even a talented one. His spaces are nothing but sumptuous displays of dynamic elements that are depicted with varying degrees of surrealism. Brilliance and drama clash with stunning or tumultuous elegance within a strictly limited range of colours. The overwhelming warm consonances are more down to earth, along with some of his cycles that are almost infernal in nature, and yet they always possess an extraordinary textured quality. In this way, the poetry, love, and life are released by the artist‘s magic. The eye is compelled to accept the impossible in a daring genesis created in this artist who travels afar in his mind’s eye. He maintains a generous harmony, even when he devotes himself with superb to the delectable game of collage. This is how Jacques SELLE manages to purposefully evoke spaces, beings, and places, while remaining completely devoted to the rhythm at all times. He even introduces a purposeful sensuality, leaving us confounded.

André RUELLAN, art critic

Exhibitions

Du 04/03/2020 au 17/03/2020 : VILLERS-SUR-MER : EXPOSITION JACQUES SELLE AU VILLARE

Du 01/03/2018 au 27/03/2018 : CAEN : EXPOSITION JACQUES SELLE ET MARC CHIASSAI A LA GALERIE ART-CULTURE-FRANCE

Du 08/07/2017 au 31/08/2017 : LA BAULE : EXPOSITION COLLECTIVE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN A CONCEPT STORE GALLERY

Du 20/09/2016 au 01/10/2016 : PARIS 7è : JACQUES SELLE PARTICIPE A L'EXPOSITION COLLECTIVE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN A LA GALERIE MONA LISA

Du 07/07/2016 au 17/07/2016 : BEAUMONT-EN-AUGE : EXPOSITION JACQUES SELLE "MARINES ET PETITS FORMATS" A LA MAISON LAPLACE

Du 16/09/2014 au 27/09/2014 : PARIS 7è : EXPOSITION JACQUES SELLE A LA GALERIE MONA LISA

Du 11/04/2014 au 24/04/2014 : PARIS 3è : JACQUES SELLE EXPOSE AU SALON DE PRINTEMPS DE LA GALERIE THUILLIER

Du 16/10/2013 au 20/10/2013 : PARIS 8è : SALON D'AUTOMNE AVEC LA PARTICIPATION DE JACQUES SELLE AUX CHAMPS ELYSEES