IVAN MESSAC

One of the singularities of Ivan Messac is that he did not wait until he was offered pictures to expose himself. In 1969, he staged a fresco on paper in the halls of the Nanterre University that marked his artistic and political commitment. No wonder that same year 69, he participates in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Two years later he exhibited three of the tables in the series "Absolute Minority" (often called the Indians) noted by the critic Jean-Louis Pradel who designates him as the youngest of the Figuration narrative while José Pierre devotes an article to him in his dictionary of Pop art. Admittedly, he was known and recognized as a sculptor but it is the painting he had embraced in his youth that seems to be the object of his concerns for more than fifteen years.