JEAN-YVES BOURGAIN,

painter, fresco painter, engraver, mural art.

affiliated with La Maison des Artistes, workshops in Paris and the Bourbonnais, active since 1977.

admitted to the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medicis) painting section: (Confirmed in JO of 18.8.1973).

Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.

Gold medalist of the department of the Allier.

FORMATION

Paris; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts: painting and mural art,

Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie: history of art,

Rome: Istituto Centrale per il Restauro: research on antique mural paintings, technologies, scientific analytical and conservation procedures.

Italian cultural missions in conservation and archeology.

Principal personal exhibition sites:

Instituts Culurels Français in Cologne, Milan, Turin and Catania.

Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers

Espace Unifor Paris.

Galleries in Paris, Germany Italy, USA, Middle East.

Principal Collective Exhibitions:

Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, FIAC 77, Novembre à Vitry, Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui, L’estampe aujourd’hui (Bibliothèque Nationale), Mac 2000.

Prize-winning bibliophilic publication:

L’Erre de Sable (1977) Beaux Livres prize for the year 1978, Cercle de la Librairie in Paris, text by Pascale Bourgain and engravings JYB, exhibited in the Francfort, Nice, Paris, Leipzig and London bookshows.

Principal worksites of monumental art, public and private commissions, suites of paintings:

Maison de Tourisme d’Angers,

Hotel Shilla, Seoul, South Korea,

Happ En, marriage room, Meguro district, Tokyo,

Royal Park Hotel, Palazzo, Tokyo,

Fujiya building, 6th district, Ginza, Tokyo,

Bruneï,

S.A.E.S Toulouse,

Etablissement Thermal de la Roche Posay,

Hôpital de Beaumont-Oise,

Zenecca Pharma Cergy Pontoise,

Thompson Optronic, Guyancourt,

Beyrouth, Ryad, Khartoum,

PARIS: SPS Réassurances, Société Foncière Lyonnaise, Ernst & Young, Vectrane, Banque Groupama Finama.

The opus of JEAN-YVES BOURGAIN actually exceeds 1500 paintings.

“...to evoke the spiritual climate where, as if in a mirror, painting and poetry reflect each other.”

The essential is that the plastic treatment should be worthy of the poem.

It is.

It transports us into the burning or tranquil deserts of a contemplation untroubled by obstacles.

To expand without limit Jean-Yves Bourgain’s meditation requires a vast continuity of space. And his matt and muted colouring (a survival from his fresquiste past) composed of azure and saffron, rose and sand, perfectly suits a contemplative nature immersed in a poem...

J.M.Dunoyer, Le Monde.

... with an extreme discretion inspired by an abstraction as sensitive as it is rigorous.

La Bible de l’Art Abstrait, p 148, Le Livre de l’ART, volume 1, edition 2008