WHEN THE PISCINE REFLECTS ITS OWN COLOURS
This particular poster fascinated me. The man didn’t look totally French nor totally anything I knew. It was an exhibition on at the Piscine in Roubaix which we have visited together in the past. I love the place and Laurent had told me he wanted to go there again - after xx years. Jean Martin (1911-1996) looked like a good proposition. The Exciled - I talk about it below... It was quite an odd title « From the workshop to the theatre ». That also intrigued me. Were we to see theatrical costumes and why from this artist? Jean Martin was born in Lyon, the son of a laborer. Self taught he developed an assiduous talent for drawing and painting and soon caught the attention of a painter and sculpter I didn’t know either. Lucien Féchant and Georges Salendre. Some of his work was presented for the first time at the Salon d’Automne in 1933 and other salons as well before he went to Paris. There he joined up with other (and unknown) artists and they formed what was called «