Focus on art brut by Jazzu

Jazzu is a French artist born in 1983. A former special education teacher, painting comes to him as an outlet, a way to express what he feels in his daily life, because it is his emotions that he paints. It goes from his reaction to current events, through the music he listens to in his studio, or his family life with his two children, everything comes to him instinctively. He identifies a lot with the Cobra movement, an artistic movement created in reaction to the quarrel between abstraction and figuration. It results from a perfect mix between Dubuffet, Keith Haring and Basquiat. This free, raw, spontaneous painting, in addition to being the heir to the cave paintings of the first men, can also be seen as a tribute to the style of urban art, that of graffiti, tags, street art, insubordinate and revolutionary cries, insubordinate actions. Jazzu takes hold of the canvas like a graffiti artist of his wall. He marks his territory, he immortalizes his ideology and his positions. He makes visible his feelings about the world in an anarchic and dreamlike way. On his works, we see faces, bodies of women and men, animals, symbols, words, letters, numbers. He conceives his paintings as mirrors. When the viewer is in front of a painting, he must be struck by his reflection, it must provoke a dialogue and an emotion. The calligraphic writings, the variations of the tracings, the hand marks, the scribbles, the use of a diversified color palette and the symbols gathered by the artist summon the sensitivity of a collective memory. The aesthetics of the canvases is characterized by a desire for “allover”, the subject of the painting seems to extract itself from the shackles of the painting, to continue beyond the limits of the frame into the off-field. This technique makes the artist’s productions dynamic and lively, the rhythm of which seems to be set by the hazards, unforeseen events and overflows of our daily lives. Jazzu’s works are numerous, powerful and all different. If you wish to acquire one of his works, the Charron gallery offers you its catalog, so that you can discover the extent of his talent.