Exhibition of Jean-Jacques KUGEL

“Trompe-l'oeil or fresco, you have probably come across the pictorial work of Jean-Jacques KUGEL at a bend in the path, on the wall of a water tower or perhaps on the facade of a building. . Duality of talents, bronze or stone, today Jean-Jacques KUGEL happily reveals to us his love of sculpture.

Daughter of the Sky and the Sea, in parietal art Venus symbolizes love, femininity, fertility and birth. Naked, she embodies the revelation of beauty and feminine grace on the world stage. The Venuses of Jean-Jacques KUGEL, coiled up on themselves like seashells, are metaphysical abstractions. Sensual, protective and containing forms, they suggest boundless interior spaces giving us access to the depths of being in which living things develop.

Interior spaces that the painter, showing remarkable dexterity, depicts with delicacy through drawing and color; allegorical, the infinite between opens its eyelid. Subjective curves, harmony of curves, shimmering colors, finesse of representations, the artist tightrope walks to the limits of the possible. Memorial statuettes, bearers of a humanity in the making, each of her Venus caresses our eyes like a precious object.

From the sketch to the patina, produced using the ancestral technique known as lost wax, Jean-Jacques KUGEL's bronzes testify to his technical mastery. Works with refined graphics, we admire the spatial harmony of the volumes, the elegant draping of the forms, the geography of solids and voids, the subtlety of the cutouts, the lightness of the lines, the undeniable poetic expression... Statuary of ingenues with moving dresses, delivered to the wind. Here again the symbolism of fertility, to which the creator brings a cosmic dimension, emerges between each line. Musician, butterfly woman or bird perched on a bicycle…, each of them with their eyes turned towards the sky rubs shoulders with the stars. From the work of Jean-Jacques KUGEL emanates a feeling of well-being, freedom, osmosis and belonging with the Whole, an emotional and creative energy that touches on universality…”

Philippe LEMOINE

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