Jean Claracq

2021

Jean CLARACQ

Born in 1991 à Bayonne, he lives and works in Paris.

Painter of miniatures and icons, Jean Claracq contributes to the dialogue between painting and digital art. His models come from social networks (Instagram, Grindr) and are part of a gay, marginal or culturally different community. They interact with many references to the history of old master painting (especially schools form Northern Europe). Attached to traditional techniques (oil on wood, attention to the smallest details), he plays with the possible reading levels and accurately depicts our relationship to screens and loneliness in an urban environment.

Graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017, his recent solo exhibitions include Open Space # 7 Jean Claracq, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2020), Fondation Sisley (2020), and group shows Boys Don’t Cry, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers (2020), agnès b., La Fab., Paris (2020).

Galerie SULTANA (Paris)

Alfred Stefanesci de Bles, 2017,
Oil on wood
15.5 x 20,7 in. / 39,4 x 52,7 cm
Courtesy de l’artiste et Sultana (Paris)
A View from an apartment 2017
Oil on wood
25.4 x 47.24 in. / 120 x 90 cm
Courtesy de l’artiste et Sultana (Paris)
Kilim, 2021
Oil on wood
7.3 x 6.9 in. / 18,5 x 17,7 cm
Courtesy de l’artiste et Sultana (Paris)
Landscape with the Temptation, 2019
Oil on wood
12 x 13.2 in. / 30,5 x 33,5 cm
Courtesy de l’artiste et Sultana (Paris)