Jean-Michel Sanejouand was born in Lyon, France, on July 18, 1934. His work has many facets, ranging from environments to monumental sculptures, from readymade-like objects to paintings of oneiric landscapes in which one of his sculptures stands. He is represented by Art : Concept.
Biography
Jean-Michel Sanejouand lived and worked in Paris between 1959 and 1993. Sanejouand now lives near Vaulandry, in the Anjou countryside. His work is made of well-defined, complementary, sometimes overlapping, periods: the "Charges-objets", in the footsteps of Marcel Duchamp's readymade as well as an ironic reaction against Minimal Art, the "Organisations d'espaces", where spaces in museums, towns, valleys, mountains are "organized", a few projects being within the realm of Land art, many being more urban and on a smaller scale, the "Calligraphies d'humeur", his first paintings, in the footsteps of Francis Picabia's monsters, the "Tables d'orientation", his last series of "Organisations d'espaces", his first on an, imaginary, abstract world-scale, the "Espaces-Peintures", where imaginary landscapes are "organized", the "Peintures Noirs et Blanc", in which landscape elements are more and more perturbed by space, the "Sculptures", made with a few stones, although rougher ones than those used in some "Charges-objets", the "Peintures", where the number of landscape elements is reduced to a minimum, the "Sculptures-Peintures", which are painted "Sculptures", the "Espaces-Critiques", where "Sculptures" are "organizing" the landscape in which they sit, the "Espaces & Cie", which are calligraphic landscapes...
Main one-man shows
1967 "Première organisation d'espace", Ecole Polytechnique. 1968 "Deux organisations d'espace", Galerie Yvon Lambert. 1973 "Les Organisations d'espace de Sanejouand", Centre National d'Art Contemporain. 1979 "Espaces-Peintures", The Antwerp Gallery, :fr: Foire internationale d'art contemporain|FIAC. 1982 "Espaces-Peintures", Lens Fine Art Gallery. 1986 "Rétrospective: des Charges-Objets aux Espaces-Peintures", Palais des Beaux-Arts. 1991 "Espaces-Peintures 1978-1986", MAC. 1991 "Les Charges-Objets 1963-1967", Galerie Froment-Putman. 1995 "Rétrospective 1963-1995", MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou. 1996 "Peintures", Galerie Barbier, FIAC. 2002 "Libre et Change", Galerie Chez Valentin. 2005 "Sanejouand", :fr:Le Plateau |Le Plateau. 2011 "Espaces et Cie", Galerie MAM, Drawing now, Carrousel du Louvre. 2012 "Retrospectivement", HAB gallery, as part of "Jean Michel Sanejouand's year in Pays de la Loire". 2015 "Un peu d'espace", Galerie Art : Concept. 2018 "Beyond color", Galerie Art : Concept. 2018 "Operation contact", Galerie Kreo.
