L’ATTENTE ET LA RAISON ARDENTE: Jean-Claude Silbermann

Jean-Claude Silbermann was born in 1935.

At the age of eighteen, after reading Guillaume Apollinaire’s book, Alcool, he made the decision to reject the bright future he was being led towards, and decided to devote his life to poetry. He took part in the Surrealist movement from 1956 to 1969. Self-taught in the practice of painting, but well-instructed in sensitive reflection, he ventured into painting in 1960. Popular names, Watteau, Gauguin, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Miro, Degottex, Barnett Newman and others taught him to see — and to continue to this day the surrealist quest for unconscious knowledge.

May Jean-Claude Silbermann’s cut-outs at galerie Sator extend the lineaments of what is marvellous in contemporary art,

May galerie Sator’s initiative to show Jean-Claude Silbermann bring light to the secret extensions of surrealism in today’s art.