Jean-Marie Gitard

Mr Strange is a French artist born in 1964 who lives in the south of France.

After a fairly classic approach as a visual artist, Mr Strange, very largely inspired by surrealism, gradually moved away from classical painting to take an interest in polymorphic forms, mixing painting and sculpture. This is his "Spicture" period.

His artistic evolution leads him to appropriate the digital medium and create what he calls his photos manipulations.

Hybridization, logic of the absurd, subversion, are the artist's favorite entry points.
From birth to death, from the individual to society, he spares no one.
Mr Strange handles surrealism with a certain derision, and offers a personal reflection on the world that is sometimes poetic, sometimes caustic but always sharp.

Artworks presented as original paintings or numbered prints.

An exhibition at the Venice Arsenale between late March and early April 2018 with a work in the final (The Red Dice).
Then, I will be visible in Paris bastille from 7 to 10 June 2018 at the contemporary art fair at the Bastille Design Center space where I will present 6 works.
Then I will exhibit 2 works at the Palazzio Ca'Zanardi (Venice) at IT'S LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival ("Bodies exhibition") from May 25 to July 12, 2018.
I will also be present with 4 works at the Villa Monastero in Varenna (Contempory Art Exhibition) from June 16 to 30, 2018.
From 12 to 23 January 2019, I am invited to Barcelona's Esart Gallery to exhibit one of my works (L'homme Penché) at their 20th International Art Exhibition.
Exhibition in Toulouse at "Art Toulouse Expo" in April.
I will be in Sanary-Sur-Mer at the end of August for an outdoor exhibition; "Suspended Art".
In 2020 and 2021, many exhibitions were canceled due to COVID 19.
I exhibited solo in August 2021 in "Le Petit Temple" in Ganges (France).
At the end of 2022, I will participate in the "Boom" exhibition at the Carroussel du Louvres in Paris organized by Focus Art Fair.
In 2023, I will participate in the XIV Biennale of Florence in Italy.

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