Whether it is about countries of Africa, Asia or South America, or themes like Circus, Carnival, Volcanoes… During his different exhibitions in France, or abroad, Jacques Mazière, as usual, always invites us to a means of escape from our environment and to a voyage. Till life is not his style. This will be a surprise to no-one, as he spent most of his life abroad, overseas, and as he still intensely travels. A great collector of Negro Art, his passion for ethnology and the animistic religions explains his interest for civilisations which have disappeared or are getting eliminated.

Mazière, a painter, engraver, sculptor whose creative movement is served by a fertile imagination, combines, in a very personal approach, a deep sensitiveness to an acute sense of observation. Thai is why he has different look upon things and beings, the inner look of the artist coupled with that of passionate man, sometimes flayed alive.
In his particular style, which, according to the periods, will appear more or less figurative, fantastic, expressionist, caricatural, indeed even naïve, or bearing symbols, he evolves, being never fixed, always searching for new sensations. Through the profusion of the colours and characters which is his own, he makes us forget, for a moment, the dullness of our daily environment and the greyness of our modern existence which is too organised and asepticized.

Like a precious bowl of oxygen, Mazière offers you to cool wind of the Inca Altiplano, the shiver of Eastern Island mystery, the breath of the African adventure, a cosmic parcel of escape and dream. Those who own some of the artist’s canvasses in their home, become aware that through these coloured works, they keep going to discovery, as if they left their material body for a while, dividing themselves for a magic tour.
These amateurs know it and recognize it willingly, as they realise that a certain complicity has established itself between themselves and the work which by then share their privacy or their immediate surroundings. Thus, every day, they notice some new unsuspected figure, or hidden symbols. Then they are lucky enough to infinitely prolong a voyage which is oneiric, ecstatic or sometimes initiatory, thanks to vibrating pictures, served by the brilliance of chatoyant colours, the deep of which at last takes from the beaten tracks.