Refuge (2010) Drawing by Patrick Jannin

Patrick Jannin, born in 1971, gives us, through an abundant and protean body of work, a most disturbing vision of the world, or to use the Freudian expression, one of disturbing strangeness. This worshiper of beauty has over the years built a world apart, on the fringes of fashions and artistic currents, in which man, fallen and condemned since the dawn of time to perpetual hell, rubs shoulders - as if to no longer feel, if need be, its ugliness and baseness – creatures of startling beauty, women with animal heads or animals with dreamy bodies, goddesses straight out of ancient myths, who were said to be barbarians then condemned in order to to install in the heads of men a symbol of death and existential emptiness, a vengeful god, the lying god. As for the truth, with this painter, it is quite simply found, for those who only know how to open their eyes to the world around them, on the branch of the tree or under the thickets of an equatorial forest, under the form of the Deer or the Robin, the Hyena or the Zebra. So many animal-symbols, so many totems punctuating the existence of those who aspire to go higher, further and deeper, and all bearers of the same energy, all beautiful and luminous, even in their darkness and in their cruelty, for as Nature made them. So yes, this is how we can see Jannin's universe: a world with three entrances, where each medium (drawing, photography and painting) brings with it its own questions but also ultimately THE answer: beauty. Beauty as a quest, beauty as a bulwark against the inherent stupidity of men, beauty as a source of light, necessary for life itself.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1971
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists