The French artist Jean-Pierre Pincemin, who passed away in 2005 at the age of just 61, came from a humble background. After school he started working as a mechanic and in his early 20s Pincemin visited the Louvre for the first time and was captivated. There and then, in the mid-1960s, Pincemin started his artistic career and made a name for himself, first as an art critic and then as an artist. It was the gallerist Jean Fournier who encouraged Pincemin to commit himself wholeheartedly to painting. Pincemin was part of the Supports/Surfaces art movement, which had a major impact on contemporary art between 1966 and 1972.
“I dreamt of paintings whose elaboration would be long and for that would maintain a tension, a principle where time, which by vocation is erosive, would build. Some of my paintings speak to us of this, as a boat speaks to us of the sea.”
Jean Pierre Pincemin