Yves Clerc (1947-) French
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Yves Clerc took his first steps into the world of images at an early age through photography, influenced by the very creative dynamic of Vogue magazine in the 1970s-1980s. He worked notably with the fashion photographer Yann Romain.
While attending medical school, he also studied at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris, where he practised drawing and comic strips under the guidance of Yves Got, the creator of Baron Noir.
As a student, he published his first illustrations in the medical press and participated in the Nancy University theatre festival, which had an important influence on the theme of representation that runs through his work.
From 1975 to 1990, he published drawings in various magazines, including Pariscope and Autrement. He aban- doned abstraction to concentrate on figurative painting in Christian Zeimert's studio, a painter who loved to integrate puns into his work, and was involved in a think tank on "critical figuration". This led him to reassess the work of art, not only as a concept but also as an object. In place of titles, he began to chronologically number each of his paintings to highlight this position.
Since 1990, the Parisian gallery Charles Bailly has regu- larly hosted exhibitions of his work in France, elsewhere in Europe and in the United States. Concurrently, Clerc designed the set for a haute couture fashion show in Moscow, exhibited his works at Hermès and was present alongside top couturiers at the Lesage embroiderer's ju- bilee, and his works have been displayed in museums and at numerous art fairs.
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