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Jacques Toussaint was born in Paris in 1947 and began his artistic career in Italy after having attended the Paris Academy of Arts,“l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts”. After first exhibitions in France and Italy he got interested in furniture design and for several years worked as consultant for important furniture producers, such as Bernini, Interflex and MatteoGrassi for whom, a part from creating and taking care of the company’s corporate image, he designed his own line of products and worked as art director.
In 1985 he founded Atelier – synthesis of his previous experiences in the design field – for the edition of projects of at that time young designers like Hans-Peter Weidmann, Wolfgang Laubersheimer, Hannes Wettstein as well as those of already famous ones, like Toshiyuki Kita, Ross Littell e Verner Panton. At the same time he re-edited works of famous masters of design, like Alvar Aalto, Alfred Roth, Werner Max Moser and Giuseppe Terragni. In 1993 he created a collection of objects in recycled paper for Arbos, Solagna. In 1997 he created “Glass Works”, a collection of mirrors and in 1998 “Connections”, a collection of art objects which underline the connections between persons and objects by whom he had been influenced.
Since 2000 Toussaint has elaborated a series of installations in-situ which are closely related to the surrounding space and, while creating a sort of estrangement in the spectator, invite to meditation. This part of his work started with the exhibition Tra sogno e realtà in the Arsenal Galleria, Palazzo Branicki in Bialystok (PL), followed by events at the Cocchi Foundations in the Water Towers of Budrio, In Itinere in the deconsecrated Church of San Francesco in Pordenone and the ambitious project …Que du bleu! curated by Luigi Cavadini at the Institut Français Milan.
He has been invited several times to present his work at the Museum Casabianca in Malo, an institution which illustrates the various phases of contemporary international art from 1960 to today through graphic works. Toussaint’s works have been shown in Italy and abroad, some of his projects are present in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and National Museum of Poznan (PL).
Exhibitions
Galleria Gasparelli Arte contemporanea, Fano
Palazzo Tiranni Castracane, Cagli (PU)
“Studio d’arte Valmore Vicenza” Art Project Fair – Verona
Ex industria Conserva Grilli – Gambettola (FC)
MACA Museo d’arte contemporanea. Palazzo Sanseverino Falcone. Acri
2014
“Studio d’arte Valmore Vicenza” Art Project Fair – Verona
Galleria Gasparelli Arte contemporanea, Fano
Institut français Milano Palazzo delle Stelline – Milano.
2013
Galleria Il Mercante d’Oriente, Verona.
Galleria Gasparelli Arte Contemporanea, Fano (Pu)
2012
Chiesa di San Francesco, Pordenone
Institut Français, Palazzo delle Stelline – Milano
Area 35, Milano
2011
Budrio, Torri dell’Acqua
2011
BCLA-Délégation Culturelle/Alliance Française
2010
BCLA-Délégation Culturelle/Alliance Française, Bologna
Eco-design. Habitare Helsinki. A cura di Ingo Maurer
2009
Eco-design. Habitare Helsinki. A cura di Yrjö Kukkapuro
2008
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona
2007
Piccolo Museo del Progetto
2006
Spazio Sette Roma*
Fondamenta Jahier Milano*
Galleria Zucca Pesaro*
Piccolo Museo del Progetto*
Mario Cumini Gemona*
2005
Pordenone legge – L’artista in vetrina, Complemento Oggetto *
Piccolo Museo del Progetto, Crespano del Grappa
2004
Piccolo Museo del Progetto, Crespano del Grappa *
Fiac – Galerie Mouvements Modernes, Paris
2003
Mobilia International, Verona *
Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padova *
Primavera del Design – Piccolo Museo del Progetto, Crespano del Grappa (Tv) *
Italian Design on Tour – Warsaw (PL)
2002
Italian Design on Tour, Colonia, Germania
Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padova *
Piccolo Museo del Progetto, Crespano del Grappa (Tv) *
Showroom Gili, Bassano del Grappa (Tv) *
Masters of World Design – Museum of Applied Art, Poznan (PL)
Materie Di Forme 2 – Fornace di Asolo
Italian Design on Tour, New York
2001
Italian Design on Tour, Zurigo
Italian Design on Tour, Milano
Piccolo Museo del Progetto, Crespano del Grappa (Tv) *
Italian Design on Tour, Facoltà di Architettura, Venezia
Italian Design on Tour, 100% design, Londra
Galleria Arsenal, Bialystock (PL) *
Galleria BWA, Wroclaw (PL) *
2000
Galleria Spazio Temporaneo, Milano *
Galerie Re-Neotu, Paris *
Showroom Avarte, Helsinki, Finlandia *
1999
Showroom Gili, Bassano del Grappa *
Spaziotemporaneo, Milano *
Showroom Simmetrie, Ponte di Piave (Tv) *
1998
Spaziotemporaneo, Milano *
Galleria Dieda, Bassano del Grappa *
1997
Les jardins intérieurs, Paris
Les jardins intérieurs, Strasbourg, Francia
Spaziotemporaneo, Milano *
Museo Casabianca, Malo (Vi) *
Galleria Blu, Milano
1996
Le giornate napoletane del Design, Napoli
1995
Grandesign, Pesaro *
1994
Showroom O’Luce, Milano
Design/Ecologia – Cimnaghi, Milano
Showroom Hi-tec-Line, Como *
Museo Casabianca, Malo (Vi) *
1993
Museo Casabianca, Malo (Vi)
Denver Art Museum, USA
Galleria Frearte, Milano
Galleria Frearte, Milano
Incontri con l’arte – Cimnaghi, Milano
Showroom Area 90, Montebelluna (Tv)
1992
Showroom Sammarredo, Prato
Spazio Fabrica, Milano
Galleria Incontri, Refrontolo (Tv)
1991
Spazio Fabrica, Milano
Spazio Fabrica, Milano
1990
Showroom Hi-Tec-Line, Como
Showroom Cappelli, Napoli
Le giornate napoletane del design, Napoli
Accademia delle Belle Arti, Napoli
Galleria Agorà, Palermo *
Galleria Cimnaghi, Milano
1989
Abitare Baleri, Albino (Bg)
Showroom Mobilia, Milano
Showroom Misura, Bari
1988
Showroom Mobilia, Milano
Pesch Wohnshop, Colonia, Germania
1986
Palazzo Bocconi, Milano
1985
Edizioni della Pergola, Pesaro
Bottega del Quadro, Bergamo
Galleria Fioretto, Padova
Arte Duchamp, Cagliari
Fabriano 85 Carte
Galleria Bergamini, Milano
1984
Galleria Arte Centro, Milano
Galleria Arser, Arte Fiera Bologna *
Bio – Biennale Lublijana, Slovenia
1982
Galleria Arser, Salone del Mobile, Milano
1981
Arte 81, Basel, Galleria Arser
Galleria Arser, Salone del Mobile, Milano
1980
Abitare Baleri, Albino (Bg)
Galleria Arser, Salone del Mobile, Milano
Galleria Vismara, Milano
1978
Galleria Arser, Bari Expo Arte *
Galleria Arser, Salone del Mobile, Milano
1977
Galerie Quincampoix, Paris
1972
Eurodomus, Torino
1969
Musée des Beaux Arts, Maubeuge, Francia
Castello di Lerici
Galleria Il Brandale, Savona
* mostre personali / personal exhibitions