Born in 1959, Jean-Marc Louis traveled around the world and absorbed the light that illuminated all of his artwork. His prolonged stay in Africa has immersed him in ochre and brown, the colors that constitute the background of his paintings. His Thai experience has converted him to recycling materials of which he knows how to read their story and rehabilitate them until he brings them to life.

In abstract research, numerous ways are experimented with. The artist does not lack imagination. Ancient canvas, cartons, or sometimes wood will be the framework of materials and as heterogeneous as obsolete maps, media coverage removed from old newspapers or plenty of tousled thread.  

Collages of “diverse and varied” materials are treated with care, revealing timeless colors with patina, a little like our beloved Braque’s way... We can also discover very sober colors in a set of combinations where lines and strokes illustrate mysterious calligraphy in an abstract expressionist way.

Compositions are always structured to a spatial burst, never random; we are in an organized mess, in Miro’s manner. Even frames themselves participate in the party with the cycle “Tungan,” which intensifies some points or red spots.

Jean-Marc Louis would like to escape from any classification, so much so that his artwork is timeless. A good idea, effectively, for this association with ancient frames is that all periods are taken together; the mixing of styles and periods is never obvious.

Constructions need all the attention to divulge themselves by signs, but they keep a little of their enigma. Signs have a meaning we must decipher!!! Jean-Marc Louis restores this warm atmosphere we know from  Miro...

The aerial and unique character can also be found in the sculpted artwork with the cycles of “Forme”, “bird,” or “Sankassi,” where oxidized metal offers us softened pigmentation with singular nuances. 

Jean-Marc Louis remains an original artist outside any fashion current. According to this view, his work constitutes an absolute contribution to the history of contemporary art. We can feel the vast spirit of freedom, indispensable to realizing an accomplished artwork. His outstanding works are unquestionably find a prominent place in the international art world.