Joining forces for the first time, painter Jean-Paul Sportiello and sculptor Carl Jaunay meet at the Lavoir Vasserot in Saint-Tropez from June 12 to 18 for an exceptional exhibition that promises to be one of the artistic events of the season.
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Jean-Paul Sportiello's abundantly colorful, large-format canvases will accompany Carl Jaunay's elegant, graceful sculptures in bronze and lost-wax. Two beautiful oppositions of styles and two complementary universes that should delight discerning art lovers.
Jean-Paul Sportiello's work is in the vein of pop-culture aesthetics, comics, street-art and the spirit of jazz, from which he borrows rhythm and a taste for improvisation.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, this former journalist claims an artistic lineage that straddles the divide between primitive art and comics. From the Lascaux caves to street art, via 14th-century Italian and Flemish painting, Hieronymus Bosch and surrealism, I've based my work on graphic improvisation," explains the artist. The fusion of line and color in the service of unbridled, zany or tragic imagery, a kaleidoscope of signs and figures inspired by current events in the world as it is, my own history and nods to art history."
Carl Jaunay describes himself as a "reanimator of objects". Beneath this poetic term lies a genuine passion for working with metal, wood, glass and bronze. Preferring soft finishes, Carl creates works that invite caressing, where the magnified past conveys a dense emotion, a new soul. He likes to breathe new life into materials by revealing their substance and sublimating patinas.
Today, the Breton sculptor is an artist on the side, exhibiting in galleries all over France and the world (Dubai, Miami, New York, Paris, Nice, Brussels, Luxembourg, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Rennes, Les Sables d'Olonne, La Baule...).
His monumental galvanized metal bull was recently acquired by the town of Grimaud, where it can be admired at the foot of the Moulin. His largest work, a bench of dolphins, made up of 17 3.5-meter elements, is on display in a 5-star hotel in Hyères.
Earlier this year, the town of Bourguebus commissioned him to create a war memorial.
Jean-Paul Sportiello's work is in the vein of pop-culture aesthetics, comics, street-art and the spirit of jazz, from which he borrows rhythm and a taste for improvisation.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, this former journalist claims an artistic lineage that straddles the divide between primitive art and comics. From the Lascaux caves to street art, via 14th-century Italian and Flemish painting, Hieronymus Bosch and surrealism, I've based my work on graphic improvisation," explains the artist. The fusion of line and color in the service of unbridled, zany or tragic imagery, a kaleidoscope of signs and figures inspired by current events in the world as it is, my own history and nods to art history."
Carl Jaunay describes himself as a "reanimator of objects". Beneath this poetic term lies a genuine passion for working with metal, wood, glass and bronze. Preferring soft finishes, Carl creates works that invite caressing, where the magnified past conveys a dense emotion, a new soul. He likes to breathe new life into materials by revealing their substance and sublimating patinas.
Today, the Breton sculptor is an artist on the side, exhibiting in galleries all over France and the world (Dubai, Miami, New York, Paris, Nice, Brussels, Luxembourg, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Rennes, Les Sables d'Olonne, La Baule...).
His monumental galvanized metal bull was recently acquired by the town of Grimaud, where it can be admired at the foot of the Moulin. His largest work, a bench of dolphins, made up of 17 3.5-meter elements, is on display in a 5-star hotel in Hyères.
Earlier this year, the town of Bourguebus commissioned him to create a war memorial.
Jean-Paul Sportiello's abundantly colorful, large-format canvases will accompany Carl Jaunay's elegant, graceful sculptures in bronze and lost-wax. Two beautiful oppositions of styles and two complementary universes that should delight discerning art lovers.
Jean-Paul Sportiello's work is in the vein of pop-culture aesthetics, comics, street-art and the spirit of jazz, from which he borrows rhythm and a taste for improvisation.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, this former...
Jean-Paul Sportiello's work is in the vein of pop-culture aesthetics, comics, street-art and the spirit of jazz, from which he borrows rhythm and a taste for improvisation.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, this former...
Opening times
Opening times
From 12 June 2025 until 18 June 2025
From 12 June 2025 until 18 June 2025
Monday
09:00 - 20:30
Tuesday
09:00 - 20:30
Wednesday
09:00 - 20:30
Thursday
09:00 - 20:30
Friday
09:00 - 20:30
Saturday
09:00 - 20:30
Sunday
09:00 - 20:30
