Dates: December 20, 2024–March 1, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, December 20, 2024, 6:00–8:00 p.m. – exhibition opening and reception in the salons of the Hostellerie La Farandole hotel. Exhibition presentation, live music, and aperitifs.
If you would like to attend the opening or purchase a painting, please contact us on WhatsApp: +33 7 83 43 06 90 (French), +7 925 113 4017 (Russian)
Admission is free.
Venue: Hostellerie La Farandole hotel, www.hostellerielafarandole.com, 140 Chemin de la Plage, 83110 Sanary-sur-Mer, Provence, France
All works are available for purchase.
Exhibition: December 20, 2024–March 1, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 20, 2024
6:00–8:00 p.m. at La Gorguette restaurant in the Hostellerie La Farandole, with a reception cocktail.
Music: Jean-Luc BRUNO (vocals)
To purchase paintings: +33 7 83 43 06 90 (WhatsApp), art@hostelllerielafarandole.com or enquire at the hotel reception
French artist Jean-Pierre Guilléron has been working in the graphic arts for more than thirty years. Guilléron is a renowned creator of seascapes and a calligrapher of Eastern ideograms, whose work has been profoundly influenced by such masters as Marin-Marie, Albert Brenet, and Mathurin Méheut. Jean-Pierre Guilléron has refined the Japanese art of fish printing known as Gyotaku.
Gyotaku is a traditional Japanese art form. The word Gyotaku combines two separate words: Gyo, meaning “fish,” and Taku, meaning “impression.” These are artistic impressions of fish made on paper. In Japan, the Gyotaku method was used by fishermen to record the size and species of the fish they caught. The Emperor of Japan kept meticulous records of catches and ordered fish impressions to be made for this purpose. Over time, Gyotaku came to be used not as a method of record-keeping, but as an art form. Artists began to enhance the impressions by adding colour and skilfully arranging the composition. The materials needed to create Gyotaku are fish, paper, ink or paint, and brushes. The impressions were made using non-toxic ink composed of soot and animal glue. Once an impression had been made, the fish was washed, cooked, and eaten.
Jean-Pierre Guilléron’s Gyotaku works can be seen in Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse’s restaurants in Paris and Hong Kong. The artist is represented by galleries in Rouen, Nantes, Le Croisic, Vannes, Concarneau, Paimpol, and Saint-Malo. He has published several works with Locus Solus and has also worked as an illustrator for Embanner éditions.