Jean Tannous - Artist Info

About Jean Tannous

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    Jean Tannous, contemporary artist whose work explores memory, transmission, and the silent persistence of origins. Born into a Mediterranean cultural landscape marked by movement and layered histories, Tannous develops a visual language where abstraction and figuration coexist in a state of quiet tension.

    His paintings are built through successive strata-gestural marks, chromatic fields, and symbolic fragments-suggesting both erosion and reconstruction. The surface becomes a site of remembrance, where traces are never erased but transformed. Earthy pigments, mineral tones, and subdued contrasts evoke a dialogue between the organic and the spiritual, the visible and the sensed.

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