Jérôme Marroc-Latour

Jérôme Marroc-Latour was born in Marseille to a dockworker father and a stay-at-home mother. His earliest aesthetic emotions were sparked by cranes, giant gantries, construction sites, and ships in the city's autonomous port. It would take several stays in New York and Tokyo to solidify an attraction to large urban complexes and their diversity. Since his adolescence, he has been painting with encouragement from his paternal great-uncle. Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin are some of his bedside painters. Quickly followed by African primitive sculptures, those of Brancusi, or more recently, Oscar Tuazon. The works of Charlotte Perriand, with her "fan-shaped" view of nature, open him up to modern design. The Bauhaus, the creations of Anni and Josef Albers, the architecture of Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, or the more democratized work of Fernand Pouillon... So many leading artists guide the first steps of a self-taught and instinctive creator, finding his way between a certain radicality and a search for harmony.