Born in 1980 in La Clayette
Lives and works in Paris
www.jeansebastientacher.com
instagram.com/jeansebastientacher
TRAINING
2007 DNSEP, ÉNSBA, Grenoble
EXHIBITIONS
2023 C14-Paris 2022 Group show, Ouvrages - Fantasmer le monde, Atland, Paris 2020 Group show, Wolves, lynx, and ants, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing
2018 Group show, Ruffians et filous, CRAC Le 19, Montbéliard 2016 Une pagode, Centre d'art Esox Lucius, Étang de la Clayette, Château de Grandvaux, Varennes- sous-Dun 2016 Group show, Le palais des monteurs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Jean-Sébastien Tacher's art seems to be an explosive blend of Art Deco and the postmodernism of Memphis, a new decorative language born, like the artist, at the dawn of the 1980s. After having performed extensively, initially with the Baoum collective, practised chainsaw woodcarving and created such extravagances as the construction, in Brittany, of a pagoda for a Vietnamese princess... the artist turns to ceramics to carve a hyper-decorative furrow fed by all the extravagances of Pop culture. (...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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