Jean Louis Magana Biography
Jean-Louis Magana was born in 1950 in Algeria. In the late 1950s, his father, suffering from a serious illness, was hospitalized in France, near Paris. In 1962, following the independence of Algeria, Magana, at the age of 12, returned to France with her mother, brothers and sisters. After various meetings (including Lacan and Vasarely) and different influences, Magana begins to trace his artistic path. Faithful to his self-taught experiences, he uses his experience and memory to create; in particular he uses the metaphor of suitcases, a symbol of youth. A great work on space begins: from the intersection of suitcases, the artist discovers the horizontal, the vertical, and begins to draw on millimetric sheets of paper (series of notebooks - 1996-1998). Fascinated by the subtle interweavings that Escher depicted in his engravings (combinations in which plays of light and shadow gradually transform fish into birds and vice versa), he questions the idea of drawing and space and explores this puzzle further, mixing his work with his passion for repetitive music (Phil Glass, Terry Riley).
