RENOIR Jacques, photography, permanent artist of Galerie Capazza since 2010

Biography

Jacques Renoir, atavism obliges, (great-grandson of Auguste Renoir, nephew of Jean Renoir) asserts very early its passion for the image and the photography.

Awarded with a diploma of Photography and Film by the Technical School Louis Lumière, he is the assistant of the most renowned directors of photography and film directors (Roger Vadim, Claude Sautet, Pierre Granier Deferre, Lewis Gilbert, John Frankenheimer…) but his curiosity to discover the world pulls him in the trail of Calypso and Cousteau for 7 years to film and to realize the episodes of the famous television series.
Then he moves on with international reporting: Bangladesh, North Korea, Lebanon… for the TV.
Finally return in France to take up with the cinema and the TV dramas (Navarro)
Author of a biographical novel on Renoir and his close relations " The Loving picture" Fayard editions, which was adapted to the cinema in 2013.
His passion remains, always, the photography. Picutres seized during these trips are reborn by the magic of the digital technology. He experiments and his photos " torn up Posters " aim towards a plastic expression close to the painting but still he puts in coincidence the forms and the colors in a series of photos in APS format.
After a retrospective to the Museum of the photography of Mougins, then a thematic exhibition "Imprints" in the chapel of white penitent in Vence. He exhibits in Paris in the gallery Bernheim-Jeune then rue de Seine in the gallery " At the bottom of the yard " a series large formats, "Collisions".

Selected exhibitions

2021  Eaux vives, personal exhibition, Galerie Depardieu, Nice
Enfances, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2020  Au-delà du regard, personal exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay
Le torse d’une femme à la pureté d’un vase, grandes courbes simples d’un fruit désiré, Parcours d’art contemporain autour d’Auguste Rodin, 1 exhibition, 5 places, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2019  L’arbre, c’est le temps rendu visible, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay
Le Lavoir Saint Tropez, photo exhibition in Saint-Tropez in different places of the city

2018  Miroir des sentiments, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2017  Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoies, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2016  Vénus et Vulcain, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay
9th edition of Printemps de la photographie, collective exhibition, SUDExpo Romorantin 

2015  Matters of landscapes, La Coupole Cultural Center, La Gaude, France
The lake, J. Renoir studio, Nice, France
Reliefs: prints and Collisions, Digital Patrimoine, Grasse, France
Auguste Renoir - Jacques Renoir’s photography show, Shangai, China
Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France

2014  Reliefs of Jacques Renoir, Galerie Patries Van Dorst, Wassenar, Netherlands
Patchwork, Jacques Renoir studio, Nice, France
Pequena Ontologia Del Resto, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Saint Domingue,
Dominican Republic
Ontology of the remnant, Galerie Bogena, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Naked, Life in the Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prints, Hôtel Royal Pullman, Cannes-Mandelieu, France
Pencils and other reliefs, J. Renoir studio, Nice, France
Mouv’ance, Like Art Gallery, Mandelieu, France

2013  Matters to landscape, J. Renoir studio, Nice, France
The work of Franta, Galerie Bogena, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Olive trees of Renoir, Espace Renoir, Essoyes, France

2012  Ontology of the remnant, Galerie La Magnanerie, Seillans, France
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
Nakes, reliefs, petite ontologie du reste, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2011  Little ontology of the remnant, Centre Culturel, Saint-Raphaël, France

2010  Collisions, reliefs and little ontology of the remnant, Larcade Gallery, Paris, France
Prints, collisions and reliefs, Abbeville cultural center, France
Reliefs, Galerie Chat Rafi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Portfolio Little ontology of the remnant, Artcurial, Paris, France
Guest of Honour of the 10th European Festival of nakes photographies, Baux en Provence, France
Poles Cultural Center, Munich, Germany
French Institute of Prague, Czech Republic

2009  Galerie Plaminek, Brno, Czech Republic
Villa Aurélienne, Fréjus, France

2008  Galerie Saint-François, Megève, France
Château l’Arnaude et Beddington Fine Art, Lorgue, France
Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut de Cagnes sur Mer, France
Studio of the Chat Rafi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Renoir’s olive trees, BMCE Bank, Casablanca, Marocco
Prints and collisions, Tournus abbey, France
Renoir’s olive trees, Galerie Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan

2007  Detours, Beddington Fine Art Galerie, Bargemon, France
Triangle d’Art, Breil sur Roya, France
Renoir’s olive trees, Musée Renoir, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Interceptions, Maison des Artistes, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Compressions, Galerie Marie Laure de l’Ecotais, Au fond de la cour, Paris, France

2006  Atelier du Chat Rafi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Renoir Jacques looks at Cézanne Paul, Musée Granet, Aix en Provence, France
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
City Hall, Gillette, France
A tribute to André Villers, Galerie Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France
Empreintes, Chapelle des Pénitents blancs, Vence, France
Rythms and lacerations, Musée de la Photographie, Mougins, France