Born 1952 in Neuchâtel, Jean-Luc Manz lives and works in Lausanne. His paintings, which he has been making since 1977, could be described as
geometric abstractions. However, they share very little with the Swiss
Concrete art tradition. They refer instead to the practices of
John M Armleder and Helmut Federle. Their geometric vocabulary is infused with expressive stances and
appropriation, as if they wanted to recreate, through the act of painting, a relationship with the world.
