Jean-Marc Hild (1956, Mulhouse)

Jean-Marc began his training as a ceramist, passionate about the calculation of enamels and the mastery of forms and colors. This initial path led him to sculpture, where he created works in enameled ceramics, but especially in marble (in Carrara, Italy) and bronze. He developed this creative phase in Alsace, Switzerland, Italy, and the United States. His time at the Mukha Academy (now the National Academy of Art and Industry Stieglitz) in St. Petersburg also influenced him, pushing him to work with mosaic.

However, this experiment and the search for nuances and transparencies, combined with matter and volumes, found their best expression in painting, which Jean-Marc Hild has never ceased to cultivate and to which he has devoted himself more exclusively in recent years. With particular sensitivity, he explores the fluidity of water and sky, the aquatic and ethereal waves, the light, the condensations, and the nebulae from which arise and flare, vague indices of life.

This exploration gave rise to cosmic-aquatic landscapes, such as those in his Hundun-Space Wave series. Hundun is the Chinese term for the original chaos, conceived as the constant state of the nebula-aquatic flow of the universe before the separation of the elements. It is an eruption emerging in contact with subtle, warm, and fertile light—in his dawn landscapes, such as those in his Indian Summer series.

Permanent artist in Artevistas Gallery