Background
Jean-Claude Silbermann was born in 1935, in Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France. He broke with his family in 1954.
Jean-Claude Silbermann was born in 1935, in Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France. He broke with his family in 1954.
In 1954 Jean-Claude Silbermann declared himself a poet with his first publication in 1959. From 1958 to 1969, he participated in the activities of the surrealist movement. The surrealism as the experience of unconscious knowledge occupied his whole mental life and his practice. He began to paint in 1962. He knew nothing and had only his talent as the courage of his clumsiness. But he liked and knew the painting well enough to guess abstract scheming.
In 1972, Jean-Claude Silbermann run a workshop in the psychiatric ward of Beaujon Hospital. He kept from that episodic frequentation of madmen the memory of quality people whose torment, which was shared by others, relieved him in part of his own. From his exhibition in 1973 at the ARC, at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, he established formal links with contemporary art: he adopted, for a part, the great casualness that often gave its draw.
Between 1978 and 1982 Silbermann wrote songs for the group Dog of Earthenware. He also had a concert in 1979 at the auditorium of the ARC at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris. In 1982, he created the Franck Bordas lithography workshop, with the help of the Incentive Fund for Creation. From 1985 to 2000, he worked with Francis Soler on the meaning of architecture.
Jean-Claude also taught to earn a living, first at the Alsatian School, then at the Ministry of Culture, with this beautiful administrative profile of "Traveling Artist Responsible for Pedagogical Experience", and finally from 1981 to 2000 at the National School of Art of Paris-Cergy. Released, by age, from academic activities, he currently writes, paints, and takes notes.
Recently, with the help of Frédéric Le Clair, he directed a film entitled "But who salted celery salad?" presented at the Pompidou Center on March 1, 2018. This film, accompanied by an autobiographical booklet, is a part of the Phares collection, published by Aube and Oona Elléouet-Breton and Seven doc, and dedicated to surrealist artists and poets.
Jean-Claude Silbermann adheres to the artistic traditions of Surrealism.
