Born in 1951, Jean-Claude Meynard lives and works in Paris and Valbonne. He is considered one of the major figures in Fractal art. His work as a visual artist, ranging from hyperrealism to fractal geometry and digital art, focuses on exploring the complexity of reality and the place of mankind within it.
For more than 35 years, Meynard, in four major phases, has renewed the complex artistic universe through pictorial, sculptural and digital creations. Classified and named by critics, the four periods are respectively called Hyperrealism (1974-76), Geometry of the Enigmas (1976-1980), Geography of the Bodies (1980-1992) and Fractal Dimension of Man (1992 to the present).
It was in 1994, the year in which he co-authored the "Fractalist" Manifesto, that he abandoned the Euclidean perspective in order to pursue the principles of expansion, saturation, and infinite networks. Pushing back the fundamentals of the classical representation of outline and space, the artist strove to create images where geometry becomes that of excess and immoderation.
His work is conceived as a constantly evolving arborescence which switches between different operating modes: paintings, sculptures, installations, residences. Constantly shifting the form of representation, the artist comes up with a novel idea and source of inspiration every time when he makes a change.
In 2005, the city of Évreux devoted a double exhibition to the artist. The exhibitions focused on his cycle of Fractal Residences. Investing in a space to its totality, the artist breaks up the architecture and multiplies the perspectives. Organized destructuration occurs where imaginary spaces echoes each other.
Since 2007, the artist has worked specifically on one of the icons which symbolizes complexity: The Tower of Babel. He created a graphic algorithm of human silhouettes as a matrix which declines in the shadows of these emblematic sculptural forms: the Tower, the Pyramid, the Glass Monoliths, the Sphere ... These Towers of Babel are displayed in China, Turkey, Italy and France. To this day, four Towers of Babel are installed around the Mediterranean.
Currently, Jean-Claude Meynard is working on the concept of Hybrids and other Mutations. By applying his fractal vision of the world to the animal representation, he shows a new figuration of fractal art, which represents a premonitory approach to the metamorphoses of the 21st century.
For more than 35 years, Meynard, in four major phases, has renewed the complex artistic universe through pictorial, sculptural and digital creations. Classified and named by critics, the four periods are respectively called Hyperrealism (1974-76), Geometry of the Enigmas (1976-1980), Geography of the Bodies (1980-1992) and Fractal Dimension of Man (1992 to the present).
It was in 1994, the year in which he co-authored the "Fractalist" Manifesto, that he abandoned the Euclidean perspective in order to pursue the principles of expansion, saturation, and infinite networks. Pushing back the fundamentals of the classical representation of outline and space, the artist strove to create images where geometry becomes that of excess and immoderation.
His work is conceived as a constantly evolving arborescence which switches between different operating modes: paintings, sculptures, installations, residences. Constantly shifting the form of representation, the artist comes up with a novel idea and source of inspiration every time when he makes a change.
In 2005, the city of Évreux devoted a double exhibition to the artist. The exhibitions focused on his cycle of Fractal Residences. Investing in a space to its totality, the artist breaks up the architecture and multiplies the perspectives. Organized destructuration occurs where imaginary spaces echoes each other.
Since 2007, the artist has worked specifically on one of the icons which symbolizes complexity: The Tower of Babel. He created a graphic algorithm of human silhouettes as a matrix which declines in the shadows of these emblematic sculptural forms: the Tower, the Pyramid, the Glass Monoliths, the Sphere ... These Towers of Babel are displayed in China, Turkey, Italy and France. To this day, four Towers of Babel are installed around the Mediterranean.
Currently, Jean-Claude Meynard is working on the concept of Hybrids and other Mutations. By applying his fractal vision of the world to the animal representation, he shows a new figuration of fractal art, which represents a premonitory approach to the metamorphoses of the 21st century.
