JEAN MICHEL CORREIA BORN 1958

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After graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Dijon in 1980, he entered the Paris Belleville School of Architecture, then taught the "Color and Space" course at several art schools, including the École Camondo and the École Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris. From 2000 to 2005, director of Ateliers du Carrousel MAD Paris.
Since moving to Quebec in 2006, Jean-Michel Correia has continued to teach at the universities of Sherbrooke and Montreal, and has worked as an independent curator, while pursuing his work as an artist.

Passionate about art history and architecture, Correia's work perpetuates the long tradition of Vitruvius, reminding us of Mondrian's geometric paintings and Le Corbusier's methodology.
In his paintings, he scrupulously respects the rules of proportion by applying paint, wood and cardboard to his canvases. He juxtaposes colors and textures in subtle nuances. The result is a balanced, rhythmic and poetic architecture. "The square is my territory," he says.
Correia's works on paper are treasures of sensitivity in which we find the artist's entire universe. Jean-Michel Correia makes his paper according to the 5 traditional stages: fiber sourcing, pulping, bleaching, sheet forming and finishing. He calls them Collages pièges.
Then, as art historian and critic Philippe Piguet so aptly put it, Correia never ceases to play with the possible variations offered by the play of panels in the masterly module. With the rigor of his gesture behind him and any risk of arbitrariness, Correia has invented his own plastic means. He has given himself materials (discarded objects and cotton pulp) and a format (the square), approaching each work as a working concept whose many applications determine the creation of a construction that is both mental and sensitive.
Jean Michel Correia's work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, the United States and Korea. His paintings, papers and sculptures can be found in private collections in these countries.

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