Jugnet + Clairet

Live and work together

Anne Marie Jugnet : b. May 25, 1958 – La Clayette, France

M.A. (DNSEP Art), National Art School of Bourges, France

Alain Clairet : b. July 7, 1950 – Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France

B.A. in Art History, University of Paris X – Nanterre

M.A. in Aesthetics, University of Paris X – Nanterre

We met in 1995 in New York and decided to work together in 1997. Our imaginary is principally nourished by the landscapes and the culture of the American southwest. From 2005 to 2012, we lived in Santa Fe (NM). In 2016, we went to live in Lamy (NM).

Our work, beyond an autobiographical dimension, explores and develops that which escapes the ordinary attention of the surrounding world and comes back to an intimate art history.

All that is imposed by sudden emergence, strangeness, dazzlement.

We begin with events and objects encountered during trips that develop our series: deserts, dead ends, the rarity of  information, discrete units, minor changes, details, intervals, in-betweens constitute the universe of our work.

Our point of view is peripheral, we are interested in the margins, the background, the depths.

Lamy, June 2017

Solo Exhibitions

2017  NM, Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, NM

2015  Square Roots, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2013-14  Séries, Centre d’art contemporain, Passerelle, Brest, France

2013  Just Passing Through, Esox Lucius, Le garage, La Clayette, France

2013  Let’s Switch Again, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris

2011-12  Un abrégé, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland

2010  Still Life – Los Alamos, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris

2008  Keep Watching The Sky, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris

2008  Décrire le reste, (Survey), Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxemburg

2008  Beau Fixe, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2007  On The Horizon, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2006  Péter la forme, Cent8, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris

2005  Côte à côte, Centre d’art contemporain, La synagogue de Delme, France

2005  Switch, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts), Rouen, France

2004  Leblanc, Stepczynski-Blancpain Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2004  R.V.B., Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxemburg

2003  AFAA, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Paris

2003  Santa Fe, cent8, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris

2003  F.W.J., curated by Claire Burrus, Centre Culturel Français, Milan, Italy

2003  Alpine, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland

2003  Cadiz, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland

2002  Switch, Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2002  Mega Vixens, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2002  Fishing With John, Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxemburg

2001  Right here – right now, Burnett Miller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2001  Tapes Series, Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2000  Séries égyptiennes, Gandy Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic

2000  Séries américaines, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France

2000  J’entendis un ver luisant, Josselyne Naef Gallery, Lyon, France

1999  Grandeur Nature, To celebrate entering the third millennium, installation in the gardens of the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt

1999  Une conduite forcée, Transpalette, Bourges, France

1998  Théâtre des terrasses, curated by Nadine Gandy, Gordes, France

1998  Erna Hécey Gallery, Luxemburg

1998  Le merle, cheese/burger, …et Cie, 9 bis Gallery, Saint-Étienne, France

Collections

• Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
• MAMCO, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
• MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
• Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
• Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Haute-Normandie, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Rhône-Alpes, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, France
• Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, France
• Capc Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
• Donation Albers-Honegger / Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
• La manufacture nationale, Sèvres, France
• Caisse des dépots et consignations, Paris
• Arsfutura, Cannes, France
• La Veuve Clicquot, Reims, France
• Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat (BCEE), Luxemburg
• Belgacom Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium