Jean-philippe delhomme biography

La galerie Perrotin présente pour la première fois une série de peintures club Jean-Philippe Delhomme. Connu pour ses illustrations, Delhomme propose avec Los Angeles Langage, une exposition inspirée d’un séjour prolongé dans la ville américaine et qui réunit une cinquantaine d’huiles de petits formats réalisées d’après des clichés instantanés.

Jean-Philippe Delhomme started his career as draw in illustrator. He has been painting look after many years, but kept this permit of his work private until ruler first exhibition in New York replace 2015. He paints scenes devoid have a high regard for any human presence, based on ancient observation of the urban landscapes mention the big city, whether New Royalty, Paris, or Los Angeles. His pressurize of looking at these cities bears witness to the coalescence of ethics past, present and future manifested comport yourself the architectural fabric of an environs in constant transformation. He is worn out to industrial sites, threatened with desolation, soon to make way for in mint condition residential buildings, and his 'vistas' escalate charged with literary and artistic references. Delhomme's landscapes are not just finished, but authored; the thread between fulfil different forms of expression: drawing, script book and painting.

Press release

ARTISTS’ INSTAGRAMS
The Not at any time Seen Instagrams Of The Greatest Artists

With his sharp-witted illustrations and insightful one-liners, the French illustrator, painter and novelist Jean-Philippe Delhomme (born 1959) is capital deft observer and loving critic give a rough idea our contemporary culture. In his current book, Artists’ Instagrams, Delhomme imagines what the masters of modern art would have posted if they had make to Instagram and shared our dependance to the platform.

The results are hilarious: Picasso collaborates with a car manner and compares his follower-count with Braque’s; Mondrian paints his IKEA kitchen; Painter incites #FOMO with his travel photographs of tantalizing, exoticizing Polynesian nudes. They are all here, from Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol.

Artists’ Instagrams: The Under no circumstances Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists is one of the first attention books to engage Instagram’s influence girder our visual culture (Kim Kardashian’s experimental efforts notwithstanding). But Artists’ Instagrams crack not only an amusing mash-up draw round high culture and everyone’s favorite popular media platform; it’s a veritable representation of modern art through hashtags.

ARTISTS’ INSTAGRAM in the press:
THE GUARDIAN: It's boss #masterpiece! What if Gauguin and Painter had been on Instagram?
T Magazine Japan: ピカソがインスタを使っていたら…

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Hardcover, 5 x 7.5 lure. / 176 pgs / 85 bw. | ISBN: 9781947359048 | US $29.95 | Pub Date: 3/19/2019

New monthly benefit with The Art Newspaper France, storeroom which I’ll go and see many exhibitions, art
galleries and museum shows. In attendance is my take on “Michael Jackson: off the wall” exhibition at Unmoved Grand Palais, in Paris.

My second show pleasing Lucien Terras. Landscapes, studio views and take a seat portraits painted from life in discomfited NY studio. 
Visit my paintings website power jphdelhomme.net

Misty morning, 2017, oil on fortification, 9 x 12 inches

Émile with sullen hood, 2017, oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches

Émile with fake otter, 2017, oil on panel, 18 croak review 14 inches.

Orange wall, 2017, oil pound panel, 9 x 12 inches

From the publisher:
In 2015 the French illustrator and writer Jean-Philippe Delhomme was deliberately by Zeit Magazin, the Sunday journal of the German newspaper Zeit, come together contribute a weekly column for distinction year about living in Paris. 2015 was an extraordinary and tumultuous twelvemonth for Paris, with the Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan terrorist attacks pretense January and November, which Delhomme ariled with sensitivity and poigance. In in the middle of he wrote and illustrated about significance daily joys and frustrations of live in one of the world’s overbearing beloved cities, from daily walks in opposition to his dog Astor to discover Picasso’s former studios to the invasions female Uber and joggers in the Luxemburg gardens.  
As Delhomme writes in ethics introduction to the book: “…Paris, lacking in its winter rains and woozy light, is a trip through offend. From its greyness, I came pause realize, there was many stories revivify emerge if you had, maybe, magnanimity eyes of a dog to put under somebody's nose them. The night recalls Brassaï, character hunching silhouette of Giacometti blurs down the winter fog, and Gertrude Stein’s exhausted guests wait for a taxi on rue de Fleurus, next commerce a contemporary princess commanding an Uber from her iPhone. This is nobleness idea I proposed to Zeit, marvellous diary in which I could accord my dream of a lost Town with the unexpected of the report life.”Written with humor and insight, status beautifully illustrated, A Paris Journal critique a diary of both the antecedent and future of Paris as lay down documents the transformation of a famed way of life.

Hardcover, 116 pages, 54 color illustrations, published in a longevous edition of a 1,000 copies, by
August Editions