about
Born in Bordeaux in 1987, Guillaume Clément Jacques lives and works in his hometown.
After studying fashion design, he spent fourteen years advising clients in the world of high-end furniture in Bordeaux, Los Angeles, and Paris.
Today, he continues this exploration of forms, colors, and materials on canvas.
He explores a wide range of mediums—inks, oil pastels, acrylics, and fine or broad-tipped markers—which he applies to both canvas and paper. This diversity of materials allows him to vary intensities, play with transparencies, layering, and textures, and alternate between precise strokes and more spontaneous gestures.
He defines himself as a researcher, an artisanal chemist of paint, experimenting with themes, forms, and balances, in search of points of contact between rigor and intuition.
An initial phase of this exploration found expression in the mécanique & chromatique series, developed in 2024. In it, he explores a quasi-industrial precision, where geometric rigor and chromatic logic come together in a controlled duality. While this series now belongs to a completed period of his work, its graphic vocabulary still reappears occasionally in some of his current works.
This approach was subsequently embodied in the éclats series, an instinctive exploration and experimental space for gesture, light, breath, and space. It continues in phase aqueuse, where he draws on the vocabulary and principles of chemistry to explore the interactions between color, material, and the medium.
Today, this exploration converges in jardin bleu, a series where organic freedom and graphic precision meet and engage in dialogue. Shapes, scripts, lines, transparencies, vivid colors, and more muted areas coexist, interconnect, or break free from one another in an ever-shifting balance.
His works oscillate between the sharp and the blurred, control and letting go, construction and abandonment. Within this constant tension, he seeks not opposition but a space for coexistence—a way to reconcile elements that might seem contradictory.
The explorations he undertakes from one series to the next gradually create common ground among his various visual works, ultimately giving rise to what he likes to call an “elegant slip.”
It is a way of saying that identity—like binary opposition—cannot be confined: it is invented through ruptures, deviations, and open spaces.
It is with this in mind that he chose to use all three of his first names—Guillaume, Clément, and Jacques—as his artist name: a gesture that embraces all facets of his personality, both his contradictions and his complementary traits. It is a way of embracing a multifaceted, ever-changing identity that resists simplification.
