Jacques Trovic
Jacques Trovic | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 15, 1948 |
| Died | October 27, 2018 (aged 70) |
Jacques Trovic (June 15, 1948 - October 27, 2018) was a French artist.[1] Active from the 1960s, he creates tapestries using sewing and embroidery techniques on popular or folklore themes. He is generally considered as belonging to the Outsider Art movement.[2]
Biography[edit]
Jacques Trovic was born in Anzin, a mining town near Valenciennes in the North of France. Due to health issues, he attends school intermittently. He learned embroidery and sewing with his mother and two sisters, who were seamstresses.[3] As a teenager, he attends the art school of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. He lived in Anzin for most of his life, and spent his later years la Pommeraie in Belgium.[4]
Works[edit]
Tapestries[edit]
Trovic's principal themes and subjects are the mining culture of the North of France (La Jonction souterraine i[The Underground Junction], 1975), the folklore, traditional crafts (Le Cordonnier [The Shoemaker]), quotidian life (Le Marchand de ballons [The Seller of Balloons], 1974) or French regions,.[2][5]
Trovic's tapestries use hessian fabric, and are generally several meters in size, which he progressively covered with pieces of fabric and embroideries.
Catalogs and illustrated books[edit]
- Musique en fêtes, exhibition catalog, 1999[6]
- Le Petit Mousseron, by André Dubuc, illustrated by Jacques Trovic, 2004.
Collections[edit]
His work is exhibited in several museums and organisations dedicated to Outsider art.[7][8]
- Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne ;
- Art&Marges in Brussels ;
- Musée d'art naïf in Laval ;
- Musée international d'art naïf Anatole Jakovsky in Nice ;
- La Fabuloserie in Dicy ;
- The textile museum of Cholet;
- Le centre Historique Minier in Lewarde;
- Museum of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ "Décès de Jacques Trovic". Musée de la Création Franche (in French). 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
- ^ a b "Collection de l'Art Brut - Trovic, Jacques". Art Brut. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "Jacques Trovic". RTBF TV (in French). 2013-02-04. Archived from the original on 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "L'Art Brut de l'asile au marché". télérama.fr. 2015.
- ^ ASBL, PsycArt. "L'abbaye de Saint-Amand (1966) - JT01 - Jacques Trovic - PsycArt". www.psycart.eu. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "Catalogues d'expositions - Centre historique minier Lewarde". Centre historique minier Lewarde (in French). 1999. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ "Jacques Trovic - Musée du textile - Art Aujourd'hui". www.artaujourdhui.info. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- ^ "Trovic, Jacques (1948-2018)". Musée de la Création Franche (in French). 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
External links[edit]
- In 2021 the TRANS-ARTS association (Lille - France) continues its documentary project "Les Solèls de Trovic" which will be released in early 2023. The website of the project contains a wealth of information on the artist, biography, analysis, research and investigations ... A publication resulting from a part of the research for the writing of the film : Les Solèls de Trovic, the documentary (EN)
- Other documentaries about Jacques Trovic, notably available online : "Le Monde de Trovic" June 30, 2014, Documentary by Jean Michel Zazzi dedicated to Jacques Trovic. "Film Jacques Trovic" December 21, 2015, documentary by Boris Beaudenon (Le Film à Retordre)
