Jean Verame
Summer 2022 Château de Bosc Sculpture Park – Domazan (Gard)
2021/2022 Exhibition Ateliers Jespers – Brussels
2021 Solo Exhibition Galerie Pascal Lainé – Ménerbes (Luberon)
2020 Exhibition “The Verame Phenomenon” – Enseigne des Oudin – Paris
2019 Solo Exhibition “Once Upon a Time Jean Verame” – Paris
2018 Proposal for two monumental projects for Paris and France
2017 Creation of the first contemporary pictoglyph “Tierra de Señales” (Land of Signs) in the Atacama Desert in Chile
2014 Exhibition “Games and Wonders” at the French Playing Card Museum in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Click for a preview
2014 Publication of the book “Les Très Beaux Objets du Jeu” (The Very Beautiful Objects of the Game) by Face et Dos Editions
2013 Solo exhibition – “Squelettes exquis” – Château de la Barben (BduR).
2012 Bridges and Passages – “Celles sur Plaine” (Bridges and Crossings) – “Celles sur Plaine” (Bridges and Crossings) – “Celles sur Plaine” (Bridges and Crossings) – “Alpilles” (Apartment)
2011 St Gervais – Large-format outdoor photographs.
St Rémy de Provence – Apartment)
2007 Inauguration of a stained-glass volume in Marseille.
Publication of the book “Sublime Playing Cards” by Ed. du Félin.
2003 Vitoria, Spain: “Prise de terre et Prise de ciel” (Grounding and Sky Taking) solo exhibition.
2002 Art Paris, Galerie de XXe Siècle, solo exhibition.
2000 Edition of a deck of cards for D. Boulogne.
Creation of a stained-glass volume lit from within and inaugurated on March 4 in front of Meaux City Hall.
Development of a transoceanic project.
1999 The Book and the Desert, French Institute in Tel Aviv.
1996 Publication of “The Work of Jean Verame,” Texts by Gérard Durozoi, Editions Skira.
Tapestry and poster for the first Festival of Television Creators, Aubusson.
Film “Bronzes in the Desert,” Palette Production, Canal +.
1995 Presentation of a thousand bronzes at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.
Launch of these thousand bronzes in five successive flights into the sands of the Sahara.
1994 Barcelona: “Different Natures”.
Oudin Gallery, Paris “Photos of Artists”
Lannion, Photos; “Imagery”.
1993 Paris-La Défense: “Different Natures”.
Tapestry for the French Embassy in Caracas.
1992 Four boats painted in Brittany, spread across the pond of the Saint Maurice Abbey.
Oudin Gallery in Paris, exhibition of bronzes.
Lannion, photography exhibition.
1991 “Hot Air Balloons,” a model for the Cousteau Foundation and a model for Aeronart.
Publication of a Card Game (Editions Dusserre in Paris).
Auction of the Verame Car Painted for the Paris-Dakar.
1990 Galerie Briet, New York: Solo exhibition of bronzes.
National Library, Paris, “Colors of Life.”
CNIT La Défense Contemporary Art Foundation: “Collection of Collections.”
1989 Multidimensional work in the Tibesti Mountains (Northern Chad).
Film by Bernard Pradinaud, A2, La Cinq.
FIAC and Galerie Alain Oudin, simultaneous solo exhibitions.
Publication of “Jean Verame, Tibesti, the Desert and Color.” Texts by Pascal Bonafoux, photos by Jean-Claude Francolon, Editions Skira.
Publication of “The Wonderful Playing Cards of the 19th Century,” Editions Nathan.
1988 Solo exhibition at the Campredon Museum, in Isle sur la Sorgue. “Campredon, Art and Culture.”
1987 Installs and erects forty-seven stones at the foot of the Alpilles, in Saint Rémy de Provence.
FNAC, Montpellier, Exhibition of Photographs of Desert Works.
SAD, Grand Palais de Paris, Exhibition of Photographs.
1985 Painted the canvas covering the Musée d’Orsay during the renovation of the façade. (SARI SEERI).
Maison de la Culture, Reims, solo exhibition.
Publication of “Espaces, Visions autres,” text by Gérard Durozoi, Editions Cesare Rancilio.
Pixi, Paris, “Verame joue,” solo exhibition.
1984 Produced a multidimensional work, on various scales, on a granite site at an altitude of 1,200 meters, in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, near Tafraout, Morocco. (A film produced by the company 3 plus is dedicated to this work).
Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris, solo exhibition.
1983 Presents photographs of the “Sinai Peace Junction” at the Rencontres Internationales Photographiques d’Arles.
1982 Exhibits at the Galerie Viviane Esders in Paris and at New York University.
1980/81 Paints twelve areas spread over 80 km2 in the Sinai Desert, Egypt, on the Hallawi Plateau. Hubert Piernet devotes a film to
this work, “Sinai Peace Junction.”
1979 Paints and marks seven granite stones standing in a meadow in Normandy.
1978 Moves and sets 17 blue-marked stones in a canyon in Amarillo, Texas.
Exploration of the Sinai Desert.
1977 Exhibits at the Galerie Ratié in Paris.
1976 Exhibits at the Galerie Premier étage in Liège and at the Galerie La Main Bleue in Strasbourg.
Bourg.
Paintings spanning two and a half kilometers along the coast of the Désert des Agriates in Corsica, marking the rocks with signs. Alexis Poliakoff films this
work.
1975 Exhibits at the A.A.R.P. Gallery in Paris, the Kerlikowsky Gallery in Munich, and the Fred Lanzenberg Gallery in Brussels.
Paints a kilometer of the walls, rocky beaches, and pebbles of a riverbed in the Cévennes, both above and below the water. Alexis
Poliakoff devotes a 16mm film to this work.
1970/74 Participates in several exhibitions and trade fairs in Paris.
1969 Exhibits at the Isy Brachot Gallery in Brussels.
1968 Displays stone tumuli at Mouton d’Anou (Alpes Maritimes) and crystalline rocks in the Castelet Massif (Alpes Maritimes).
1967 Exhibits at the Romain Louis Gallery in Brussels.
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