Jean-Michel Cordier

Jean-Michel Cordier

Painter

Awards :

    Private Collection of the Edgar Mélik Museum - Château de Cabriès - Cabriès - France

Exhibitions :

    Solo Exhibitions

    2025
    Edgar Mélik Museum - Château de Cabriès - Cabriès - France
    Les Amis des Arts Gallery - Aix-en-Provence - France
    Bel'Arti Gallery - Calvi - France
    Quatrième Gallery - Clermont Ferrand - France
    2024
    Bel'Arti Gallery - Calvi - France
    Quatrième Gallery - Clermont Ferrand - France
    Artium Gallery - Marseille - France
    SM’ART - Contemporary Art Fair - Aix-en-Provence - France
    2023
    Bel'Arti Gallery - Calvi - France
    Quatrième Gallery - Clermont Ferrand - France
    ArtPlexe - Rencontres Méditerranéennes - Marseille - France
    Lourmarin - Contemporary Art Festival - France
    SM’ART - Contemporary Art Fair - Aix-en-Provence - France
    2022
    SM’ART - Contemporary Art Fair - Aix-en-Provence - France
    Galerie Quatrième - Clermont Ferrand - France

    Group Exhibitions

    2025
    Art Design Week - Milan - Italy
    Business Evening - Cote Sud - Aix-en-Provence - France
    Investis'Art - Abbaye de SAint Victor - Marseille - France
    2024
    Maison de l’Amérique Latine - Galerie Bel’Arti - Gros & Dellettrez - Paris - France
    Galerie B Shop - Rodez - France
    2023
    Galerie Vellutini - Paris - France
    Calvi Art Festival - Calvi - France
    Cloître Saint-Louis - Avignon - France
    Galerie Le Petit-Louvre - Avignon - France
    2022
    29 Miollis - Aix-en-Provence - France
    2021
    Le Conservateur - Aix-en-Provence - France 

Dandys

Each character in the “Dandys” series celebrates elegance as a form of self-expression, a powerful stance that transcends fashion to become an inner language. Inspired by African SAPE, these figures are the result of a lively dialogue between African heritage and Western references. 

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Portraits

I pay tribute to ancestral traditions in my series “Portraits,” where each face emphasizes a silent power, revealing buried stories that reference deep emotions. Combining primitive arts with masks, totems, sculptures, and an expressive palette, I weave a living link between past and present. Each painting acts as a bridge between cultures, eras, and beings, resonating with the influence of the African masks of my childhood. 

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Abstract Expressionism

In the “Abstract Expressionism” series, I continue my quest for instinct and spontaneity, creating works that are free of all restraint, oscillating between art brut, expressionism, and intense abstraction. I evoke a visual vocabulary through signs, symbols, and intuitive traces. I consider this collection to be silent carriers of memory. Each work corresponds to a gestural dialogue between my body and the material.

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