Jean Auguste Marembert

Axel de Heeckeren guides us through the singular universe of a painter, born in 1900, who seeks in his paintings to "create a new nature by continuing the gesture once destroyed the vision of departure, to open the roof of the castles and to make dream dancers fly "and which gives to see" magic marshes from which escape the animals of a new myth ". If Jean Auguste Marembert belongs to the second generation of surrealism, this movement of which he knew the first wave when he landed in Paris, around 1918, at no time will he join him as a disciple. We follow his journey from the Salon d fall at the Salons des Indépendants et des Surindépendants, from his exhibitions, notably within the group Les Réverbères, to his collaborations as an illustrator in various journals and bibliophile books, from his decisive meeting with the merchant Henri-Pierre Roché, to the formidable Parisian bohemian style with which it mixes. This work "is entirely a long introduction to the personality and work of Jean Marembert" .0 Forty years of research, conversations and glances exchanged with the canvases to unearth the memory of an artist, to expose in full light his works and draw up a catalog raisonné.