Jean Leyris (born in 1939)

Jean Leyris' work is distinguished by his bas-reliefs composed of still lifes on table corners, figures on beds, landscapes or trees alone; subjects that traditionally take up more space on the canvas. A strong sense of frontality emerges from his works with points of projection, the relief of a fruit, the diagonal of a knife. He also creates figures in the round, with worked matter, which have an authority, a presence, and a monumentality that evokes Giacometti.