Jérôme Delépine. Dans la lumière du monde

Jérôme Delépine. Dans la lumière du monde, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2024

1st edition
Edition of 30 copies numbered from I to XXX
The 30 copies are accompanied by an original work by the artist
Hardcover, 23 x 27,5 cm, 224 pages
French English edition
Translated in English by John Barrett
ISBN : 978-2-491901-85-1

Jérôme Delépine. Dans la lumière du monde (In the Light of the World) brings together a large selection of recent monotypes and oil paintings by artist Jérôme Delépine. This monograph is published in collaboration with the Papiers d'art gallery in Paris, the Danielle Bourdette gallery in Honfleur and the Point Rouge gallery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It accompanies the “Visions” exhibition at Galerie Point Rouge in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence from October 9 to November 24, 2024, in duo with ceramist Pierre Amourette.

“The painter chooses a timeless land, rejects all modernity, proposes the canopy as shelter and the forest as cellar. He moves forward to a time in the world when nights were black and suns fiery, calling on the ocean to fall in bubbling bundles on the nave, making trees rise from fertile plains and rivers meander in long, iridescent arms. Finally, as a painter with a torch, he illuminates the world.“ (Jean-Daniel Mohier)

Jérôme Delépine was born in Massy in 1977. He currently lives and works in the Val d'Oise. The painter's career path is almost that of a self-taught artist, as a severe visual handicap closed the doors of Parisian art schools to him. Nevertheless, he has acquired a classical technique, painting in the vein of Caravaggio, Turner and Rembrandt. In 2016, he was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Banque Populaire and the Eddy Rugale Michailov Prize from the Taylor Foundation. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in galleries such as Gallery Ysebaert in Laethem-Saint-Martin (BE), Galerie Hervé Courtaigne, Galerie Papiers d'art and Galerie Laurence Esnol in Paris, Galerie Point Rouge in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Fonds Culturel de l'Ermitages in Garches, but also in group shows at the Darren Baker Gallery in London, the Taylor Foundation in Paris, the Danielle Bourdette Gallery in Honfleur, the Lishui Museum in Liando (CN), the Museum of XXth and XXIst Art in Saint Petersburg, the Ianchelevici Museum in La Louvières and Loft 19 Suzanne Tarasiève in Paris.

Pierre Gilles is an exhibition curator and art critic.

Philippe Hersant is a French composer born in Rome in 1948. His catalog includes almost two hundred works for a wide variety of ensembles: solo instrumental music, chamber music, orchestra and choir. He is also the author of operas, ballet music for the Paris Opera and numerous film scores.

Yuri Lévy Kumata runs the Papiers d'art gallery in Paris, which she founded in 2018 and is mainly dedicated to works on paper.

Jean-Daniel Mohier is an independent curator, collector, co-founder and former president of Rémanence, an association of artists and art players.

Frédérique Oudin is an art critic. She is a regular contributor to Artension magazine.

Étienne Yver is a painter, sculptor and scenographer born in Caen in 1955. He lives and works in Paris, and has been exhibiting his work in France and abroad since 1980.