Jean-François Boclé Explained

Jean-François Boclé
Birth Date:1971
Birth Place:Fort-de-France, Martinique
Nationality:French
Education:École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris
Notable Works:Tout doit disparaître! / Everything Must Go!Outre‑MémoireThe Tears of Bananaman

Jean-François Boclé is a Martinican artist. His practice mixes poetic writing with installation, painting, sculpture, video, photography, intervention in the public space and performance.[1]

Life

Jean-François Boclé was born in 1971 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Caribbean, living his childhood years in Saint-Esprit. He moved to Paris at fifteen, where he currently lives and works.[2] After his studies in Modern Literature at Sorbonne university, he was trained first at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges and then at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris.[3]

Exhibitions

Jean-François Boclé participated in several biennials such as the 1st Biennial of Thessaloniki (2007, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece), showing "Tout doit disparaître! (Everything must go!)".[4] This is a work Bocle has repeated through his career, beginning with a show at Espace Oscar Niemeyer, in Paris, in 2001.[5] In an installation at the Saatchi Gallery in 2015, it was described as: "a sea of blue plastic bags forms an abyss, a quasi-memorial to lives lost at sea during the transatlantic slave trade."[6] He took part in a group work entitled “Integration and resistance in the global era. A critical territory” at the 10th Havana Biennial (2011, Cuba).[7] In September 2011 he participated in the 8th Biennial of Mercosur in Porto Alegre (Brazil).[8]

In 2008 the Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden, devoted the entire Museum to Boclé for its largest solo exhibition to date, to represent the characteristics of his art, "the wide range of media employed, the presence of precise and challenging topics, the relationship with a colonial past and a post-colonial present ".[9] In 2010, he gave a solo exhibition at the 28th Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair.

In 2011 Boclé was Artist in Residence at the Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao.[10] He was also part of a touring show, Fetish Modernity, which visited the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium), the Museo de América in Madrid, the Naprstek Museum in Praha, the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden (Netherlands), and the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen in Stockholm over four years. The exhibition was described in the Museo de América catalogue as: "created by six European Museums, [it] invites visitors to explore the notion of modernity. (...) This idea is expressed via several themes: criticism of the legacy of ethnography museums through contemporary art; (...)."[11] [12]

Also in 2011, he participated in the International Festival of contemporary sculpture French: Escaut. Rives, dérives (30 cities in Northern France), and the 8th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre (Brazil).[13]

Exhibitions

2007 1st Thessaloniki Biennial, Greece

2009 Group Show Kreyol Factory, Paris[14]

2009 10th Havana Bienal, Cuba[15]

2010 Festival of Contemporary Sculpture Escaut, Rives et dérives, France[16]

2010 31st Biennial of Pontevedra, Spain[17]

2010 Group show Global Caribbean, Miami[18]

Publications

Articles

External links

References

  1. Boclé . Jean-François . Seiderer . Anna . 2022-05-19 . La peau morte de l'écriture. Un entretien avec Jean-François Boclé . Esclavages & Post-esclavages. Slaveries & Post-Slaveries . fr . 6 . 10.4000/slaveries.6274 . 2540-6647. free .
  2. Web site: Bonsu . Osei . 2014 . Jean-François Boclé - Artist - Saatchi Gallery . https://web.archive.org/web/20220418234312/https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/jean_francois_bocle . 2022-04-18 . 2022-10-30 . Saatchi Gallery.
  3. Web site: 2011-01-27 . Press Release: Lecture artist Jean Francois Boclé at IBB Instituto Buena Bista . https://web.archive.org/web/20221030093912/https://institutobuenabista.com/2011/press-release-lecture-artist-jean-francois-bocle-at-ibb/ . 2022-10-30 . 2022-10-30 . Instituto Buena Bista.
  4. Web site: Invitation to the openings of the exhibition "Tout doit disparaître! (Everything must go!) . https://web.archive.org/web/20221030095102/https://biennale1.thessalonikibiennale.gr/newsdetail.php?lang=2&nws_id=15 . 2022-10-30 . 2022-10-30 . biennale: 1 Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.
  5. Web site: aicasc . Posté par . 2015-03-07 . Tout doit disparaître! . 2022-11-01 . Aica Caraïbe du Sud . fr-FR.
  6. Web site: Daily . Global Art . 2015-07-29 . Africa meets Latin America at Saatchi Gallery . https://web.archive.org/web/20200804115251/https://www.globalartdaily.com/post/2015/07/30/saatchi-gallery-pangaea-ii . 2020-08-04 . 2022-10-30 . Global Art Daily . en.
  7. Web site: 2010-07-10 . 10th Havana Biennial Oficial Site . https://web.archive.org/web/20100710211903/http://www.bienalhabana.cult.cu/bienaldelahabana/en/contenidos-descripcion.php?idbienal=10&idcontenido=17 . 2010-07-10 . 2022-10-30 .
  8. Web site: 2021-10-19 . Jean-François Boclé . 2022-10-30 . Maelle Galerie . en-GB.
  9. Web site: Jean-François Boclé / I Did Not Discover America . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520172904/https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibitions/2008/jean-francois-bocle--i-did-not-discover-america/ . 2022-05-20 . 2022-10-30 . www.bildmuseet.umu.se . en.
  10. Web site: 2010-11-29 . Instituto Buena Bista » Blog Archive » Jean François Boclé . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129020634/http://institutobuenabista.com/2010/jean-francois-bocle/ . 2010-11-29 . 2022-10-30 .
  11. Web site: Museums and Modernity in Transit: Fetish Modernity . https://web.archive.org/web/20221030205118/https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/museodeamerica/dam/jcr:a4fbbd51-fdd8-4bac-b88d-d7695e96c51c/s6100-ingles-modernidad-en-tr-nsito.pdf . 2022-10-30 . 2022-10-30 . Museo de América.
  12. Web site: Publications - Catalogues - Fetish Modernity-Belgium, Tervuren - April 2011--ref310 - Jean-François Boclé . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521162544/https://jeanfrancoisbocle.com/publication/exhibitions/fetish-modernity-april-2011-ref310.html . 2022-05-21 . 2022-10-30 . Jean-François Boclé.
  13. Web site: Jean-François BOCLÉ . https://web.archive.org/web/20221030112634/http://www.maellegalerie.com/cv/cv_bocle_en.pdf . 2022-10-30.
  14. Web site: 2018-06-27 . kréyol Factory - La Villette - Les artistes . https://web.archive.org/web/20180627151314/http://kreyolfactory.srv841.sd-france.net/component/option,com_alphacontent/Itemid,275/alpha,b/section,all/cat,all/ . 2018-06-27 . 2022-10-30 .
  15. Web site: 2009-02-28 . 10th Havana Biennial Oficial Site . https://web.archive.org/web/20090228165015/http://www.bienalhabana.cult.cu/bienaldelahabana/en/contenidos-descripcion.php?idbienal=10&idcontenido=17 . 2009-02-28 . 2022-10-30 .
  16. Web site: Escaut & Acier . 2010-11-25 . Jean-François Boclé . https://web.archive.org/web/20110815195620/http://escautrivesderives.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/jean-francois-bocle/ . 2011-08-15 . 2022-10-30 . Escaut. Rives, dérives . fr-FR.
  17. Web site: 2010-09-21 . Bienal de Pontevedra . https://web.archive.org/web/20100921222033/http://bienal.depo.es/artistas/jean-francois-bocle(cast).php . 2010-09-21 . 2022-10-30 .
  18. Web site: 2010-06-21 . Global Caribbean - Official Website . https://web.archive.org/web/20100621135212/http://www.theglobalcaribbean.org/artists.php . 2010-06-21 . 2022-10-30 .
  19. Boclé . Jean-François . 2014 . Outre-mémoire: Un mémorial sonore et visuel . Africultures . fr . 98 . 2 . 162 . 10.3917/afcul.098.0162 . 1276-2458.
  20. Boclé . Jean‑François . Seiderer . Anna . 2022-05-19 . La peau morte de l'écriture. Un entretien avec Jean-François Boclé . Esclavages & Post-esclavages . 6 . 10.4000/slaveries.6274 . 2540-6647. free .

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