Born in Bordeaux in 1987, Guillaume Clément Jacques lives and works in his native city.
After studying fashion design, he spent fourteen years working with clients in the world of high-end furniture, in Bordeaux, Los Angeles and Paris.
Today, he pursues this quest for harmony between shapes, colors and materials on canvas.
He explores a wide range of mediums: inks, oil pastels, acrylics, fine or broad felt-tips, which he applies to canvas as well as paper. This diversity of materials enables him to modulate intensities, play with transparencies, superimpositions and textures, and alternate precise gestures with more spontaneous outbursts.
He defines himself as a small-scale researcher, an artisanal chemist of painting: experimenting with themes, shapes and balances, in search of points of contact between rigor and intuition.
His mécanique & chromatique series explores a quasi-industrial precision, where geometric rigor and colorful logic are articulated in a controlled duality.
éclats is a more instinctive proposition, a field for experimenting with gesture, light, breath and space.
With jardin bleu, he seeks to reconcile, through contrast, this ambivalence between organic freedom and graphic rigor.
His works and research oscillate between sharp and blurred, control and abandonment, construction and letting go. What he seeks in this tension is a form of harmony, a reconciliation.
It’s a way of saying that identity – like binarity – can’t be confined: it’s invented in ruptures, gaps and free zones.
It is through the phase aqueuse series that these tensions now take their most accomplished form. He borrows his vocabulary and principles from chemistry. Space becomes a laboratory, a place of emergence where the emergence of a new form is not always foreseen, but always provoked.
Color is thought of as a reagent: in contact with the support, it becomes language and living matter, in perpetual mutation.
Graphic zones – sharp, sometimes architectural – heckle more instinctive, liquid, diffuse and sometimes chaotic spaces.
phase aqueuse is not just a series: it’s a pivotal point, an active field of research from which he questions the possibility of common ground between his other series.
In his current work, he seeks to build bridges, to assume and assemble his ambivalences, to the point of provoking an elegant slip – and, perhaps, a new coherence.