Jean Verame
Summary of press articles on the work of Jean Verame
2000
“The Great Timeless Projects of Jean Verame” Article by Alain PAGETZ published in January in PROFIL Paris.
1999
“Very interesting,” Madrid.
“Paesaggi d’autore” published in FOCUS, Milan, June 1999.
1998
” Danièle Giraudy publishes “Sample Bank” in TECHNE No. 8.
1997
” Painter Jean Verame’s project sparks debate,” La Provence, Marseille, November 25, 1997.
” Conference “Jean Verame – Man – Artist,” La Provence, Marseille, November 22, 1997.
” The Color Blue,” published in DADA, October 1997.
1996
” Morocco” published in Atlas Air Charter.
“Camille Berto published “Jean Verame – He Transfigures the Universe” in Le Méridional. Marseille, March 11, 1996.
1995
“Jean Verame, The Cutouts of Infinity” by Laurence Pythoud, published in L’ŒIL. October 1995, Paris.
1994
“Daniel and Emmanuelle Minassian published: In the Heart of the Alpilles, A Visit to the Painter and Sculptor Jean Verame, “The Man Whose Studio is the Desert.”
“Maison Selection No. 17 April/May 1994, Toulouse.” But what would drive Jean Verame to grapple with the rocks of the desert: a taste for exploits,
… 1993
” “Maison d’Artiste” by Gonzague SAINT BRIS, in Femme. Neuilly sur Seine, November 1993.
“The New York Times Magazine. New York, September 12, 1993.”The Sophiscated Traveler, a Maroccan paradise renewed” by Michael MEWSHAW,
… As described in guidebooks, the project sounded sophomoric, but one could never have imagined the dramatic impact of Mister Verame’s work.
Giant monoliths, painted black dotted an arid plain that glittered with specks of mica. Oval rocks, aqua in color, gargantuan in scale, lay heaped in piles;
Isolated boulders, sculpted by the wind, resembled bluebirds about to take wing. An enormous cross formed by red and black stones loomed above a boulder.
… ” “Behind Satan” by Gérard Bessière for La Vie No. 17105. Paris, February 25, 1993.
” “Sentinelle: One Day, a Painter” by Joyce Delimata for the first Dada children’s art magazine. No. 2 January 1993, Lyon.
” “Lower Nubia by Paddle Steamer” by O.M. for Epansion Voyages No. 39. Paris.
1992
” Idéert No. 31 November-December 1992. Paris.
“The Blue Stones of the Desert in Filming” Moroccan Press. November-December 1992.
” “Jean Verame or the Obsession of Infinity” by Catherine CAZALE for Next, a quarterly review of art and culture. Rome, September-October 1992.
” “Colorful Boats” Mer et Bateaux. September 1992.
” “From Wreck to Work of Art” by H.H. for Voiles et voiliers. August 1992.
“Jaqueline Brotte wrote in L’accent de Provence (July/August): “Jean Verame: Painter to the bitter end.”
“Without denying his passion for the stones of Sinai and Tibesti, the painter of wide open spaces has just created a deck of cards with magical figures.
A completely new and unexpected visual concept. Stubbornly eschewing the established trends of contemporary art, Jean Verame has continued to work
… While his interventions in Sinai, southern Morocco, and Tibesti earned him
international recognition, they were above all the foundation for new, more inventive and creative approaches, responding to his pressing need to
… 1992.
“Coques à l’huile” L.M.-GAMMA for Le Matin (the Roman daily). Lausanne, May 29, 1992.
“Two Other Projects for Jean Verame” TV
Brest, May 11, 1992.
“Cloar Carnoët: Painters Received at the Town Hall” Le Télégramme de Brest, May 8, 1992.
“Verame Brings Dead Boats Back to Life. Quimperlé: Contemporary Art Festival.” By Vincent Thaeron, Ouest France, May 7-8, 1992.
“Jean Verame: Art in the Great Outdoors.” and “Jean Verame: Painter of the Desert in Saint Maurice.” La Liberté. Quimperlé, May 7-8, 1992.
“Jean Verame: Art in the Great Outdoors.” and “Jean Verame: Painter of the Desert in Saint Maurice.” “Freedom of Morbihan. May 7, 1992.
” “May of the Avennes: Horizon Lines on Old Hulls.” by CL. LASBLEIZ. Le Télégramme, May 7, 1992.
” “Jean Verame in Saint Maurice: Boats of All Colors.” Ouest France, April 30, 1992. “Jean Verame has been hard at work since yesterday, opposite
the entrance to the Abbey of Saint Maurice, where he will paint old boat hulls. (…) While walking along the coast, the idea of painting boats took root in me, and the choice of Saint Maurice then became obvious: the site is magnificent. Once painted, the boats, currently on dry land, will be lifted into the air and placed back on
the sandbank to float on the high seas.
“Freeze Frame” L’Express. Paris, January 16, 1992.
“Jean Verame, Painter to the End” by J.B., Le Figaro Méditerranée. January 4, 1992.
“Verame” Ikebana Ryusei. Tokyo, January 1992.
“A Lua é Azul? “Os Caminhos da Terra.” Sao Paulo, Brazil, Gamma Agency
1991
“Art Inflates Us.” Paris Match, December 19, 1991.
“Aéronart, Artists’ Hot Air Balloons.” by Frederic PAUL. Art et Valeurs, December 1991.
“Jean Verame: Painting the Blue Desert.” Marseilles Côte, October 1991.
“Air at the Service of Art.” “New Republic of the Center West.” September 1991.
“Verame: The Great Game” VSD. Paris, August 3, 1991.
“Paris-Dak’Art” Georges PICQ, 4×4 Magazine, January 1991.
“From Landscape to Beyond the Land” by Augustin BERQUE, “Le Débat,” Gallimard. Paris, No. 65, May/June 1991.
1990
“The Pharaohs Exploited the Turquoise Mines of Sinai “Here is December 30, 1990. Insert by Jean Verame.
” “Wanted Pictures and a Vergessenes People” by Werner GARTUNG, Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main. No. 301, December 28, 1990
” “A Little Art in the Dakar” France Soir Ouest. Paris, November 10, 1990.
” “New York: Pierre et Paix Exhibition” Elle. Paris, December 3, 1990.
“The Dak’Art Wager of La Défense” by Philippe MARTINEAU. Figaro-La Defense CNTT, November 12, 1990.
“Jean Verame: From the Desert to the City” by Philippe MARTINEAU. Le Figaro, Paris, November 1990.
“Desert” by Bernard HEITZ, Télérama. Paris, October 17, 1990.
“Nomades” Télé-loisir. Paris, October 15, 1990.
“And there was Color. “Afrique Magazine, October 1990.
” “Jean Verame: Sand in Technicolor.” PHOTO. Paris, August 1990.
” “Verame: Painter from Nature.” by Florence Sandi, Le Quotidien de Paris. Paris, August 23, 1990.
” “Hell of the Mountains in Tibesti.” Art and Values, July/August 1990.
” “Porcelain: Modern Times.” by Colette Gouvion, Vogue Décoration, June/July 1990.
” “The Great and the Others.” “Connaissance des Arts. Paris, June 1990.
” Pascal Bonafoux’s “Jean Verame, Tibesti,” published by Skira, is not really a monograph, but one will not resist the spell cast by
” this coloring of large rocks in the desert near Bardaï. It is completely unusual and singularly poetic, and nomads accustomed
” “Roc Dancer.” by Hervé HAUSS, New Look. Paris, June 1990.
” “What do Nomads think of Verame’s Paintings? “Actuel,” Paris, May 1990.
” “French Painting on the Tibesti Rocks.” Bâtiment Artisanal, April 1990.
” “Figures: They Make Paris.” by Florence Mendel, Express-Paris. Paris, February 23, 1990.
” “Jean Verame: A Painter Sets Out to Conquer the Desert.” by Vinciane Moeschler, La Tribune des Arts, February 7, 1990.
” “Tableaux d’honneur.” ” by DEL MARLE for Demeures et Chateaux de France, January-February 1990.
” “Stic B: Paintings of Peace.” by Franck HAMAIDE, Letters of Sponsorship and Patronage. Special issue Phénix 89, January 15, 1990.
” “Geo Atlas of Nations No. 37, January 1990. Cover photo.
” ” Painting: Jean Verame the Megalomaniac.” Grandes Lignes. Paris, January 1990.
” “Operacion Tibesti.” by Jean-Claude FRANCOLON, Geo
world.
“Operation Tibesti” by Jake Fenway, Scape, U.S.A., 1987.
“Genis Genis Bir Tuval” For Men, Istanbul.
” “A Landscape Painter” by Catherine GAYNOR, The Regent Magazine. London. “French artist Jean Verame has the strange, possibly unique ability to
perceive in rocks and mountains artistic shapes and forms that he brings vividly to life with huge quantities of paint (…) His most recent mammoth
undertaking was last year, when he ventured into the heart of Tibesti, an arid volcanic area of Chad, central Africa, a country which had barely recovered
from a long period of conflict with Libya. After three months of hard labor in the desert, Verame created quite literally a monumental work of art.
“Editorial” Jacques GLENAT, Vertical, October 27 – December 21, 1989.
“In 3,000 years, this fresco will fade.” New Look. Paris, November 1989.
“Le Tibesti de Jean Verame.” Le Quotidien de Paris. Paris, October 7, 1989.
“Paris, “Jean Verame.” ” by Pierre BRISSET, L’oeil. Paris, October 1989. “We prefer Verame’s bronzes, some of which are two meters high.
… (…) No longer any connection here with his “great spectacles.”
… A
… Bardaï, on the edge of the desert, with its
… Where, before, there was nothing but the ugliness of war, Verame captured beauty.
“Colors in Tibesti.” AFP, September 8, 1989.
“Blue Like the Desert” by Gérard DUROZOI, Nouvelles Clés No. 6: June/July/August 1898. Cover photo and article.
“The Painted Desert” Scope, September 22, 1989.
“Noch Eine Geschichte” by Walter TECKLENBURG, Echo. Germany.
“20th Century Rocks” by Jean Claude FRANCOLON, Australia.
1988
“Jean Verame Exhibition” L’Humanité. Paris, June 22, 1988.
1987
“The Standing Stones of Jean Verame” by Alain PAIRE, LE PROVENCAL. Marseille, July 4, 1987.
1986
“Orsay Yesterday and Today. ” by Christian PELLERIN, CREE. Paris, 4th quarter 1986.
” “Jean Verame – New Mountains.” by Stéphane RONA, +- 0. Brussels, February 1986.
1985
” “In Saint Remy, the Man Who Painted the Desert Blue.” by Véronique PRAT, Le Figaro Provence. December 7, 1985.
” “The Musée d’Orsay in a Gift Package.” Nice Matin. Paris, November 24, 1985.
” “Paris, to send Nineteenth Century Art on American Tour. ” AFP, International Herald Tribune. October 26-27, 1985.
” “7th Arrondissement, End of a Curse.” by Raymond PRONIER, Le Matin de Paris. Paris, October 8, 1985.
” “A Verame Canvas for the Façade of the Orsay.” Le Monde. Paris, October 4, 1985.
” “A Chador for Orsay.” L’Humanité. Paris, October 2, 1985. ” “Fifteen months before its opening to the public, the Musée d’Orsay asserts its presence in
the Parisian landscape by exhibiting on its façade a giant canvas by a contemporary artist, Jean Verame. Chosen by the Museum associated with the Sari Seeri Group,
…
and give another dimension to a natural site.”
“Orsay: The Canvas Facade.” by Claude HELEU, Le Quotidien de Paris. Paris, October 1, 1985.
“A Giant Canvas in front of the Musée d’Orsay.” by Pierre BRETON, AFP. Paris, September 30, 1985
“A 1,500-square-meter Canvas on the Musée d’Orsay.” Le Parisien Libéré. Paris, September 25, 1985.
“The Gare d’Orsay covered with a painted Canvas at the end of September. “, Parisien Libéré. Paris, July 29, 1985.
” ‘Photo: Jean Verame.’, Les Cahiers de Printemps. Reims, April-May 1985.
” ‘Entriamo Nel Quadro Piů Grande del Mondo. ” by A.S., Epoca. Italy, March 15, 1985. Photographer Manuel Litran. ” Verame é un tipo aperto, un uomo
lontano of the cliché offered by the artist abituto a commerciale con i fantasmi delle cose é non con le cose. With a piccolo point of contact next: He knows
Intervento sur la paesaggio mira, infatti, a sottrarlo alla realta, a condurlo longontano, fino a farlo nothingtrare in whichever space remoto che si misura solo nel sogno o
nel ricordo “
” “Technicolor, the Magic Mountain. ” by Franco SPARAFUCILE, New Look. January 1985.
” ‘Verame: a Marvelous Delirium. ” Galerie des Arts. Paris, January 1985.
1984
” “Rocks, Marble and Brass. ” by Jeanine WARNOD, Le Figaro. Paris, December 12, 1984.
“A Painter in the Sinai.” by P.D., Le Monde. December 1, 1984.
“From Desert Art.”, International Decoration. Paris, December 1984
“Paris: “Jean Verame.” by Gérard DUROZOI, L’oeil. Paris, December 1984
“Large Stores.” by F.D., Photo Revue. December 1984
“Verame,” Le Quotidien de Paris. Paris, November 28, 1984.
“Verame,” Le Point. Paris, November 19-25, 1984.
“A Belgian Artist Paints Earth’s Crusts.”, France Soir Magazine. Paris, November 25, 1984.
“Paris: “Verame and the Enchanted Desert,” by Luc VEZIN, Beaux Arts. Paris, November 5, 1984.
“The Madman of the Desert.” by Catherine TERZIEFF, 7 in Paris. Paris, November 1984.
“The Earth is Blue like an Orange.”, Maison Française. Paris, November 1984.
“Exhibition: “Jean Verame, a Unique Landscape Painter.” ” by Pierre BRETON, AFP. Paris, November 1984.
“Jean Verame, the Painter of Still Life.”, Nice Matin, September 18, 1984.
“The Enchanted Desert.” by Manuel LITRAN, Paris Match No. 1834, July 20, 1984. “Until now, Verame used only blue and black, which he punctuated
with small touches of red. Blue was—and remains—his favorite tone. The color of the sky and the sea, it is not found on the surface of the earth.
… Here, to create this supernatural oasis, he alternated
four colors. (….) For the first visitors, amazement mingled with admiration. Unable to understand how five men alone had
… “, Le Midi libre.
1983
“The painted stones of Jean Verame.” by Elizabeth SKIDMORE SASSER, Artspace Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly. California, Winter 1983-84:
Cover photo and article. “…Verame’s dialogue with stones began two decades ago in the south of France, where he had gone to pursue
a career as a painter. Like so many artists in the restless years of the sixties, he found himself imprisoned by the limiting dimensions of his canvases, the
walls of his studio, and the enclosed spaces of galleries. He began to take long walks, picking up stones which took his fancy. (…) Corsica was succeeded by
a venture which led to West Texas and the Ranch of Stantley Marsh III (…) Verame found a valley walled in on either side by cliffs and, occasionally inhabited
by wondering cattle (…) Designated boulders were moved and set in position at the canyon bottom. The seventeen stones planted vertically in the ground
seemed to have existed in situ since the last glacier melted and left them standing like pieces on a giant chess board.”
1982
“Jean Verame: Painting “in situ” by Anne GABRIEL, Canal. Paris, No. 45-46 April 1982. Cover photo of the magazine and Article: “…Thus, Verame’s gesture
restores its full meaning to painting: transforming a
Time lived in a living space: photography also bears witness to the invitation given to us
… June 28, 1981. “… We were wrong to doubt that Jean Verame—a young artist of Belgian origin living in
… ” by Pearson PHILLIPS, Telegraph Sunday magazine. London, March 15, 1981. “To see the latest wonder of the world requires
a trek to one of the loneliest, emptiest spots on earth. In the Southern Sinai peninsula, near the mountain down which Moses is reputed to have come with the
stone tablets of the law is a large plateau littered with huge smooth lumps of granite up to 150ft. high”.
” ‘Sinai: lassů et tutto dipinto di blu. “R. d. A., Corriere della sera illustrated. Rome, March 1981.
“Sinai,” Ad Dastour. London, Vol. 11, March 1, 1981.
“Cover insert.” Al Majalla, No. 54, The International News Magazine of the Arabs. February 21-27, 1981.
“People,” Time Magazine. New York, February 2, 1981. “It was an uncontrollable, instantaneous vibration that struck Belgian artist Jean Verame, 44, in the
Sinai Desert. “The Sinai’s relief is crazy, its density is fabulous. “He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist’s plan was to decorate the desert
… “Under the transparent sky of the
… culture had the best chance of surviving to the next century if a cataclysm swept away our civilization. If such a cataclysm occurred, one might wonder
… ” Eine Stunde später holpern wir mit dem Jeep durch die Mondlandschaft zu
dem Kunstwerk, das Weltweit umstritten ist, obwohl es bisher kaum jemand zu Gesicht bekommen hat.Artist Jean Verame, 44, hat of Sinai blue
gefärbt (…) Scheich Raschid Raschidi hoft, die blauen Berge als Touristenattraktion nutzen zu Können. Stolz zieht der Beduine aus seiner Brieftasche ein
Schreiben Verames, in dem ihm der weisse Mann das Exklusivrecht für Führungen vermacht mit dem Zusatz, darauf zu achten, dass “niemand auf die
bemalten Felsen tritt “
” ‘Blue Zone. ” by Bernhard REIST, L’Illustré de Lausanne. Lausanne, 1981. “Everything in my story was a miracle,” explains J.V. “It was a miracle to have been able
… “A.P., Le Courrier de Genève. Geneva, December 13, 1980.
1979
” “Around Us: Oil Painting” by CANDIDE, La Nouvelle République du C
between West. June 22, 1979
“He wants to paint the Sinai Blue.” La Montagne, No. 63. Clermont-Ferrand, June 12, 1979.
“Sinai in Painting,” Presse Océan: The Resistance of the West. Nantes, June 8, 1979.
“Sinai in Painting by French Artist Jean Verame,” Le Progrès Egyptien. Cairo, June 8, 1979.
“Sinai in Colors,” Le Journal d’Egypte. Cairo, June 8, 1979.
“A Belgian Artist Will Paint 50 km2 of the Sinai Blue.” “, France Soir. Paris, June 7, 1979.
“The Painter of Sinai.”, Valeurs Actuelles. Paris, June 4, 1979.
“Painting the Desert.”, by Bernard Gaulin and Patrice Goulet, Interior Architecture. Paris, May-June 1979.
“Sinai in Blue.”, Famille Chrétienne. Paris, May 24, 1979.
“Painting the Sinai.” by Jean Verame, The Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem, May 16, 1979 (Reply from the artist to the author).
“Painting Sinai in Blue.”, Le Monde. Paris, April 25, 1979. “The painter Jean Verame is one of the most influential “landscape markers” around the world
… “, by Eve Ruggieri, Elle. Paris, April 23, 1979.
“Jean Verame: A Blue Peace for the Sinai.”, by Jeanine Baron, La Croix. Paris, April 16, 1979.
“Peace in Blue.” by Odile Van de Walle, Le Point. Paris, April 9, 1979.
“Symbol of Peace: A French Artist Wants to Paint a Sinai Site Blue.” Le Bien Public. March 24, 1979.
“A Sinai Site Painted in Blue.” ” by Pierre BRETON, AFP. Paris, CP 27, March 24, 1979.
” “He wants to paint Sinai blue.” Le Soir, March 23, 1979.
” “The Blue Line of Sinai.” La Haute Marne Libérée, March 22, 1979.
” “A French Artist’s Project: Painting Sinai blue.” Nice Matin, March 22, 1979.
” “The Blue Line of Sinai.” Les Dépęches, March 22, 1979.
” “Painting Sinai blue.” La Montagne, March 21, 1979.
” “Sinai’s Peace Junction. Jean Verame: Consciousness and Cosmic Memory.” by Alain MACAIRE, Canal, No. 25-26, February-March 1979. Paris.
(Photo on cover and article). “… Why Jean Verame here? Who is Jean Verame? For me, he is an artist in search of a desert,
other expanses that still allow us to understand men better than through acquaintances, declarations, or writings, in search of signs that
we have to discover outside of movements, outside of judgments. Crossing certain solitudes, certain exiles, throws us back against the wall: everything
has yet to begin. “
“Sinai Peace Junction.” by Eric ANCIAN, Associated Press, 328. Paris, March 1979.
“Art of Peace.” by Ali MAHMOUD, Associated Press, Cairo.
1977
“An artist leaves his studio…” by Catherine CHAINE, Elle. Paris, June 27, 1977.
“Jean Verame, Galerie Ratié.” Art Press. Paris, June 8, 1977.
“From Mandrake to the Cosmos.” by Pierre MAZARS, Le Figaro. Paris, April 9-10, 1977.
“Verame: Space and the Sign.” ” by Annick PELY, Le Quotidien de Paris. Paris, April 5, 1977. “… Personal cosmogony, signs of an inner space
… “Multidimensional work in the Agriates Desert” in
… He doesn’t work on the landscape. He doesn’t modify it. He makes it different, with its human/poetic dimensions added to
…
, January 1976.
1969
” ELLE magazine published on February 26: “Did you know him as a writer?”
1965
” Robert Kanters published in “La réalité”: Jean Verame “La Fortune des Fous” “Finally, a first novel that isn’t a “new novel.” Verame
” bothers little with formal research. His book is a cry of revolt, in the vein of Céline and Henry Miller.”
” Bernard Thomas published in L’Express from September 27 to October 3: “After Celine and Miller, “La Fortune des Fous” by Jean Verame.” “There was Miller; there
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