Paintings: Jean-Philippe Delhomme

A collection of works by French artist Jean-Philippe Delorme.

This book, the artist's first monograph, features 175 works created between 2012 and 2022, categorized by the locations of his studios (New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Asnieres on the outskirts of Paris, and Paris) and by his studios.

At the end of the 1980s, when painting in general and figurative work in particular seemed to be lacking in the art world, Jean-Philippe Delorme turned to print. Newspapers, magazines and posters appealed to him as more vivid media, and as a way of actively participating in society, in the same way that a composer broadcasts his music on the radio. In the 1990s, he created a series of gouache illustrations for an advertising campaign for Barneys, a luxury department store in New York, accompanied by a text by Glenn O'Brien, a poet, writer and critic who was active in the same circles as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Since then, he has written essays and novels, and contributed and illustrated his own columns for magazines in France and abroad, combining wit and social criticism. Parallel to these explorations, he has continued to create paintings of landscapes and of his friends and family. At a time when painting is once again coming into its own in the art world, particularly through narrative figurative expression, Delhomme rejects narrative and instead depicts the mere existence of people and objects without any kind of stylization.

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Title: Paintings
Artist: Jean-Philippe Delhomme
RVB Books/Perrotin, 2012
Hardcover, case binding
270 x 210 mm
304 pages
Text in French and English
First edition
ISBN: 978-2-492175-23-7
¥11,000 -