Jean Le Gac

Jean Le Gac (born May 6, 1936, in Alès, France)[1] is a French conceptual artist, painter, pastelist, photographer using mixed media,[2] frequently video or photography and text to document his investigations and sketched scenes.

His poetic photographic interventions in which he is most often the main subject are accompanied either by typed text describing the underlying story in the artwork or handwritten notes in the art piece itself.

[3] Member of the Narrative art movement[4] since the seventies, Le Gac ofttimes tells a story about an imaginary character that viewers can easily identify with the artist himself.

Through his glass enclosed paintings, Le Gac drew the adventures of twin sisters who were tied up next to the rails but saved by a painter hero.

[9] As in many of his other works, the concurrent use of text and image allows Le Gac to draw us into his poetic imagination, transporting the viewers in his inner voyages full of trains, dreams, plants, pastels, and photographs, the traces of real and imaginary wanderings.