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Jean-François Comte's résuméJean-François Comte was born in Paris, spent most of his childhood in Morocco, with his father, a surgeon, and a sculptor, his mother, who excelled in female nudes. Quite soon, he becomes absorbed in the contemplation of treaties of anatomy and the fine arts color plates of the Larousse Encyclopedia. As a schoolboy, goes on an individual strike to be allowed to study ancient Greek. Later, he joined the research department of the ex-state owned French TV. He is appointed creative supervisor in a major London advertising agency and lives there through part of the magnificent Sixties. He draws story-boards, directs commercials, and ... paints his first pictures. Back in Paris in 1968, he sets up a production company, ATVZ, and from there on, dedicates half of his time to painting. In September 1980, he buys a book of mathematics, dives into the theory of numbers, remains there for a few months in apnea. His interest in Romanesque churches accounts for his purchasing a house in Burgundy. From there, he launches a TV series for F3 on Romanesque art and directs a documentary on tympanums and capitals in Autun and Vézelay. At this time, he encounters the five measures used by Romanesque architects and masons, along with the multiple applications of Phi, the golden proportion. Finds there an opportunity to stretch the field of his investigations as a painter. Indeed his acquaintance with Phi inspires and comforts most of his choices thereafter: fragmentation of the human figure in diptychs or triptychs, selection of rectangles, squares or double squares liable to fit together and suggest volume, use of diagonals, irrational numbers and even, sometimes, trigonometry. In 1998, Jean-François Comte discloses his first triptychs at the Rabastens Festival, more of them in Paris (Foundation Taylor) in 2000, and in 2001, in Avignon. "I'm no seeker, I'm finder" and "One must paint a picture a day" said Picasso: JFC is far from reaching these goals but he's got a few years left to try ! |
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