At the time both Prize-winners of the Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture and painting, Jacqueline Georges Deyme and Jean Marc Lange met at the Villa Medici in Rome between 1964 and 1969. It is the starting point of a fructuous, affective and professional complicity in connecting painting and sculpture, visible in exhibitions that they like to realize together.
For Jacqueline Georges Deyme, this Italian stay has brought back some familial memories anchored in Africa and in Asia. And Rome offered a sculptural substratum which enabled her to shape her faraway lands: polychromy of Etruscan terracottas, strange stone heads of Hermes in the garden of the Villa Medici, horses emerging from basins, palm trees sculptures by Bernini for Piazza Navona… Elephant will become the fetish of her work, symbol of love, exoticism and adventure. His supple forms, colossal but appealing – at the height of an unrestrained imagination – provide a primitive fascination, emphasized by the material used: white sandstone enhanced with gold.
Jean Marc Lange realized his first paintings on the Norman coastline. The Roman beaches strengthened his conviction of making them the subject of his work, natural borders of a terrestrial space and, beyond horizon line, prefiguration of another world. The hidden gardens, the hanging terraces, the windswept beaches in Ostia,where deckchairs are flying around above excessive jars, are characteristic elements of his painting. In the course of time and travel, his artwork has changed to a simplification of painting, more focused on lines and flat areas, as if evoking a memory changes surreptitiously as time goes by.
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