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Born 67-11-21 in Brussels
Jean Pierre Muller (Brussels, 1967) has developed a process that tends to assume the relation to painting as well as integrating elements of contemporary culture that oppose it. His work, given rhythm by colour, is essentially urban.
Playing on cross-purposes, Muller endeavours to confuse visual, cultural and conceptual issues. Photography, drawing, silk screen, painting merge, gestural and mechanical interventions meet to offer a vision of the world with numerous readings, combining History of art and consumption subcultures.
And so has his work taken multiple forms, small intimate pictures or monumental paintings, volumes ("Mullairplanes" and "Mulldings", painted busts,...) or triptych fences, until integrating the surrounding space (the creation of a temple to the city for the exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Saragossa, the integration of paintings in Brussels nightscape for the "One night in Sagacity" event,...)
His work may be born from a personal research, but Jean Pierre Muller cares about its encounter with the audience, creating works for specific locations (Li-Fung Tower in Hongkong, Creneau Interiors in Hasselt,...) By his attachment to a certain pop culture, he doesn't hesitate to even adapt his work for occasional incursions in the world of communication (creation of the European Elections poster in 1999, use of a "Mullairplane" as trademark for a travel agency,...)
In the same way, collaborations and confrontations with other creators play a particular part in his work's evolution. One thinks here for instance of the invitation made to ten visual artists to conceive a huge fresco for Algiers' Beaux-Arts, or the confrontation-exhibition with Czech painter Mirek Kaufman at the Belgian Cultural Centre in Prague, or the "Sunrise Surprise" event with New York jazz musician Anthony Coleman.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
2008 |
Zedes Gallery, Brussels (B) |
2007 |
Espace B, Glabais (B) |
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“The Virtual Wheel & The String Machine” (with D. Murcott & The Elysian String Quartet”, ISELP, Brussels (B) |
2005 |
Zedes Gallery, Brussels (B)
AKA Gallery, Rome (I) |
2004 |
International Art Gallery, Lasne (B) |
2003 |
Zedes Gallery, Brussels (B) |
2002 |
Triskel Arts Centre (Rep. of Ireland) |
2000 |
Centre Wallonie-Brussels, Prague (Cz. Rep.) |
1999 |
Ruben Forni Art Gallery, Brussels (B) |
1998 |
Quartiers Latins, Brussels (B) |
| 1998 |
Palais de la Culture , Algiers (Algeria) |
1995 |
Museo Pablo Serrano, Saragosse (Espagne) |
1993 |
Ruben Forni Art Gallery, Brussels (B) |
1990 |
Ruben Forni Art Gallery, Brussels (B) |
1989 |
Galerie Albert Dumont, Brussels (B) |
THE MUSICAL PAINTING (a collaboration with Sean O’Hagan/The High Llamas) |
| 2008 |
Atomium, Brussels (B) |
| 2006 |
Pathé-Palace, Brussels (B) |
2002 |
- Royal Festival Hall, London (G.B.)
- Ars Musica, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (B)
- CIVA, Brussels (B)
- Triskel Arts Centre (Rep. of Ireland)
- Guinness Storehouse, Dublin (Rep. of Ireland)
- Waterloo Station, London (G.B.)
- Made in Art, Leuven (B) |
SPECIAL EVENTS (selection) |
2008 |
Installation of a monumental Musical Painting in Ixelles, Brussels (B) |
| 2006 |
150 paintings for Air Liquide + one-night
happening at the Museum for Musical Instruments, Brussels (B) |
| 2004 |
200 paintings Securex, Brussels (B) |
| 2003 |
Frescoes for the Luminus loge, R.C. Genk football
stadium (B) |
2000 |
Works commissioned for the Belgian Pavilion, World Fair, Hanover (Germany) |
1999 |
Designs the picture poster for the European Elections and a corporate image for the European Parliament |
1998 |
« Contact », 2 frescos for the Algiers Beaux-Arts |
1997 |
- 10 paintings for Li-Fung International, Li-Fung Tower (Hong Kong)
- « Un soir à Sagacity », special event-exhibition for the launching of the « Sagacity » book, World Trade Centre, Brussels
- Monumental painting for Creneau Interiors, Hasselt (B) |
1995 |
17 paintings for Berlitz International |
1991 |
« Follow the guide », one-night event at the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels |
BIBLIOGRAHY |
| 2008 |
« The Musical Paintings », Sagacity Editions |
| 2003 |
« Intimacity », Sagacity Editions |
1997 |
« Sagacity », Corporate Profiles Editions |
Works in collections : Museo Pablo Serrano (Zaragoza), Musée de la Gravure (La Louvière), French-speaking Community of Belgium, Dexia Bank, and private collections world-wide |
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