Jacques Monory (French, 1934 - )

Jacques Monory is a French painter, living and working in Cachan. Monory was only 21 when he first exhibited his art publically at Gallery Kléber in Paris. He became one of the principal representatives of the French figuration narrative movement, which, in the Sixties, was opposed to geometrical, kinetic or abstract expressionist painting and sympathetic to the art of the New Realism movement.

His canvases suggest heavy atmospheres while pulling subject matter from modern civilization, often using silkscreen processes that borrow from photographic and cinematographic sources, and a reliance on monochrome color.

Exhibitions
2006
Années 70, gallery Maeght, Paris

2005
Détour, inauguration of the museum of the Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Couleur, Gallery Laurent Strouk, Paris
Vitrines W, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Multiples, Domaine de Lescombe, Eysines, France

2004
J'ai vécu une autre vie, Fondation Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
Shopping, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France
Monophonie, Gallery Sonia Zannettacci, Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

2003
Extraits, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Nocturne, Espace Paul Rebeyrolle, Eymoutiers, France

2002
Trente six baisers, deux tremblements, une énigme, Château prieural de
Montsempron-Libos, France
Nuit,Gallery Antonio Pratès, Lisbon, Portugal
La vie imaginaire de Jonc'Erouas Cym, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Baisers peintures et multiples, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Paris, France

2000
Tremblement,(one man show), Gallery Sonia Zannettacci, F.I.A.C. Paris, France

1999
Monory, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
La nuit, Gallery Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
Ex-crime, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, salle Chemellier, Angers, France
Monory, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts et Grandes Galeries-Aître Saint-Maclou,
Rouen, France
Documents, Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
Monory, Gallery Guimpel fils, London, UK

1998
Epilogue, Maison d'Art Contemporain Le Petit Chailloux, Fresnes, France
Monory, Musée de Sainte-Croix, Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
Monory, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres, France

1997
Kuldi (Froid), Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islande
Enigme 3, Gallery Nová Sin, Prague, Tzek Republique
Polar et peintures, Jacques Monory, library Arthaud, Grenoble, France

1996
Enigmes 1, Gallery du Théâtre, Cherbourg, France
Enigmes 2, Gallery Le Grand Café, festival Délit d'Encre, Saint-Nazaire, France
Cinénigme, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France

1995
Jardinage, Champclause, France

1994
les éléments du désastre, Gallery Lelong, Paris, France

1992
Suppéments, Gallery Andata/Ritorno, Geneva, Switzerland
french pavilion, universal exhibition of Sevilla, Spain

1991
Le dernier tableau, Gallery Andata/Ritorno, Geneva, Switzerland
Noir, Gallery Lelong, Paris, France

1990
Come-back, Gallery Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
Alptraum, Gallery Loft, Paris, France
Sade-révolution-impossible, Centre culturel d'Aoste, Italia

1989
Le peintre, Abbaye des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France
Le peintre bis, Gallery Lelong, Paris, France
Grands formats en bleu, rose et noir, Gallery Art 4, Paris, France

1988
Le Peintre, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, centre de développement culturel, Calais, France
Projection, Musée Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France

1987
La Voleuse, Gallery Maeght-Lelong, Paris, France

1984
Toxique, A.R.C., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Encore une fois paraître à la terrasse, Gallery Andata/Ritorno and Gallery Pierre Huber,
Geneva, Switzerland
Monory, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1983
Dynamite, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, France

1982
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France
Maison de la Culture, Nevers, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France
Monory, Sigma, Bordeaux, France

1981
Ciels, nébuleuses et galaxies, Gallery Maeght, Paris, France

1980
Gallery Maeght, Barcelone, Spain
Monory 3., Lunds Konsthalle, Lunds, Sweden

1979
Monory, Maison de la Culture de Rennes, France

1978
Technicolor, Gallery Maeght, Paris, France
Technicolor, Gallery Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland

1977
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgien
Récits tremblants, Gallery de Larcos, Paris, France
Hommage à Caspar David Friedrich, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1976
Opéras glacés, Gallery Maeght, Paris, France

1975
Louisiane Museum, Humlebaeck, Danemark
Gallery Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland

1974
Les premiers numéros du catalogue mondial des images incurables, C.N.A.C. Centre
National d'Art contemporain, Paris, France

1973
Velvet Jungle, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, Italia
Galleria S. Michele, Brescia, Italia
Cultural Centre of Villeparisis, France

1972
Velvet Jungle, Stedelijk Muséum, Amsterdam, Hollande
Musée de Saint-Etienne, France
Neue Gallery, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany

1971
Gallery Klang, Koln, Germany
Velvet Jungle, N.Y., A.R.C., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Monory catalogue 1968-1971, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgien

1969
Galleria II Punto, Turin, Italia
Studio d'Arte Condoti 85, Rome, Italia
Galleria Forni, Bologne, Italia

1968
Meurtres, Gallery B. Mommaton, Paris, France

1967
Gallery B. Mommanton, Paris , France
Galleria II Punto, Turin, Italia

1966
Gallery Schwarz, Milan, Italia

1965
Gallery H. Legendre, Paris, France

1959
Gallery La Hune, Paris, France

1958
Gallery l'entracte, Lausanne, Switzerland

1955
Gallery Kléber, Paris, France