Jean Faucheur Exhibits 200 Unframed Drawings at Galerie Mathgoth in Paris

Key facts

• Exhibition « à suivre » runs from 24 September 2026 to 24 October 2026 at Galerie Mathgoth, 1 Rue Alphonse-Boudard, 75013 Paris, with free entry.
• 200 A4 drawings are displayed unframed, held by magnets on metal rails, except a few in the corridor facing Rue Alphonse-Boudard.
• Jean Faucheur has made almost one drawing per day since 2022, totaling 777 works kept in personal binders.
• The show is Faucheur's first solo exhibition in seven years; the selection was proposed by Mathilde and Gautier Jourdain.
• Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1956, Faucheur graduated as top student from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.
• In 1983 he pasted 4 × 3 meter paintings on Paris advertising billboards; in 1984 he founded the Frères Ripoulin collective with Nina Childress, Claude Closky and Pierre Huyghe (PiroKao).
• The Frères Ripoulin occupied the Dupleix metro station, were invited to New York by Tony Shafrazi, and met Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Futura 2000; agnès b. devoted several exhibitions to them.
• Faucheur founded the M.U.R., which has shown 410 artists renewed monthly, and helped create the Fédération de l'art urbain in 2018, which he presides.