JEAN LE GACANEKDOTERNA och VYERNA17.01-25.01.1975

Jean Le Gac from France exhibits at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from January 17 to 26, 1975.
For the first time, his work is being shown separately in Sweden.

The exhibition consists of two parts — THE ANECDOTES and THE VIEWS.
The former includes eight texts and seven drawings, a kind of retrospective narrative about important events in his life.
THE VIEWS, with eleven texts and eleven color photographs, is an in-depth study of one of the stories from THE ANECDOTES.

Jean Le Gac presents only isolated texts and displays the photographs in such a way that they seem like precious memorials devoted to revealing something whose meaning has been lost.
The original activity within the text and photograph seems hidden: it becomes a myth, a mystery.
The meaning of these messages always remains unfinished.
What matters, however, is the way in which they conceal a possible reality.

Jean Le Gac’s work is an exploration of the subjective relations that each of us maintains with the real world.
He illuminates the mechanisms that govern our subjective experience of things — how memory and imagination affect our contact with our surroundings.
For Jean Le Gac, objectivity does not exist.

Since 1969, Jean Le Gac has been working with narratives accompanied by photographs.
It is his intention to try to unite visual and linguistic mysticism.
This combination of image and text has in recent years increasingly attracted the attention of certain experimental artists.

Jean Le Gac has presented his works in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Israel, and the USA.
In March, his works will be seen at Malmö Konsthall in a group exhibition called “New Media.”

The exhibition is open on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon to 5 p.m.