Born in 1941 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Alain Clément grew up in Montrouge before training in drawing at the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière and in printmaking at S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17, in the heart of 1960s Paris. In 1965, he settled near Montpellier, in Sainte-Croix-de-Quintillargues, where he set up a workshop specialising in intaglio printing and typography to publish illustrated poetry. A close friendship with the poet Frédéric Jacques Temple led to the creation of numerous art books, from L'Hiver in 1966 to Meschacebé in 2020.
A founding member of the ABC Productions group in 1969 alongside Tjeerd Alkema, Jean Azémard and Vincent Bioulès, he contributed to the memorable event ‘100 artistes dans la ville’ in May 1970. His works then travelled between Paris and the provinces, from the ARC to the Salon de mai, from Perpignan to Grenoble.
From 1984 onwards, Alain Clément explored new dimensions: monumental paintings and ceiling decorations for the Ludwig Museum in Aachen, oak stave sculptures in the 1990s, followed by polychrome steel reliefs and monumental sculptures exhibited notably at the Cologne Art Fair in 2000. For nearly forty years, his work has woven a subtle dialogue between expressive abstraction and compositional rigour, where paintings, sculptures and engravings combine sensitivity, visual pleasure and structure. He now divides his creative life between Nîmes, Paris and Berlin.
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