About the work

The work Fruit de Garance is a charcoal drawing. It is a still film image of Garance, and an image of her portrait. With Baptiste and Pierre-François, Garance is one of the three characters who, with reference to the film Enfants du Paradis by Marcel Carné, allows the artist to put into practice a “back-and-forth between history and representation”, between reality and fiction. She embodies a 21st century child from which Jérôme Zonder explores many storytelling possibilities and graphic metamorphosis.

The Fruits series constitutes the matrix of a complex tapestry of images and the artist’s primary source material. These are small, standardized drawings that form an introductory step of drawing which allows us to “cleanse ourselves of the fascination of images.” Gleaned from diverse iconographic repertoires, they are spaces of testing and can be seen as a catalogue of writings, an atlas of feelings transcribed to drawing. They mark the first moment of questioning the representation of drawing.

Date and country of birth

1974, FR>

About the artist

Jérôme Zonder (b. 1974, Paris) lives and works in Paris. Graduated from The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2001). Select solo exhibitions include Des Homo Sapiens, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2018); Devenir traces, Domaine de Chambord, Loire-et-Cher (2018); The Dancing Room, Musée Tinguely, Basel (2017); Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Diepenheim (2016); Au village, Le lieu unique, Nantes (2014); and Puppet Show Dust, One And J Gallery, Seoul (2009). Select group exhibitions include Une saison dessin: XVI ème siècle à nos jours, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen (2019); Guernica, Musée Picasso, Paris (2018); Le Massacre des Innocents: Poussin, Picasso, Bacon, Musée Conndé, Chantilly (2017); Winter group show, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (2016); Genre Humain, Palais Jacques Cœur, Bourges (2015); and Prendre le temps d’un morceau d’odalisque, Aeroplastics, Brussels (2014). His works are held in public and private collections including Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul; Collection Antoine de Galbert, Paris; Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Paris.