Iranian visa, 2001

Jean-Luc MEYER-ABBATUCCI has been traveling the world for more that thirty years: a journey that is an integral part of his work and life.
His stay in Africa, Asia and the Middle East direct his work: paintings, photographs, installations are some of the supports which investigate the notions of arbitrary borders, territories, conflicts, nationalism and identity.

In 2005, in association with his assistant Hugo HEBREARD, he created the collective Ouroboros Team, aimed at the study and realization of artistic projects in the form of installations, which raise questions about the environment and recycling and to give the future back to our planet.

In 2006, Ouroboros Team realized installations in Egypt, Jordan and Israel.

Between 2006 and 2008, the collective stayed in India and in Nepal where they submitted proposals of several projects, which have not succeed until today because of the difficulties in obtaining the governmental authorizations.

After a short stay in the Paris workshop, Ouroboros Team is presently in Costa Rica, where they prepare a water purification project and waste-recycling program associated with local organizations.

Citizens exhibition of Ealing Council, London 2005 :

Seltzer Lejeune exhibition, Paris 1999 :

Biography of Jean Luc MEYER-ABBATUCCI :

1956 Born in Brazzaville, Congo
1970 Moves to Paris
1975-79 Fine Art school, Versailles and Paris
1979-80 Art Institute, San Francisco
1981 Works on sculptures in Mexico
1983 J.K.M Gallery, Stockholm. Travels in Brazil and works on paintings staying with an afro-Brazilian religious priest, Salvador de Bahia
1984 Group show in Coliseum, New York
1985 Travels to Japan. Laforêt Museum, Tokyo. Moves to New-York. Light Gallery, New York. Travels to Congo and works in a village with traditional sculptors
1986 Travels to Japan. Laporte Gallery, Osaka. Ishii Space, Tokyo. Travels to Zaire
1987 Travels to Gabon and Cameroon
1988 Receives a grant from Parsons School of New-York, for a 6 months residence in Dominican Republic
1989 Travels in South Gabon for topographic studies with a group of scientists and Pygmies, in the Gabonese jungle
1990-92 Teaches Fine Art in a college in Paris
1993 Travels to Senegal. Starts to include maps in his art. Catherine Dreyfus Space, Paris
1994 Travels and works in Israel and Sinai
1995 Seltzer-Lejeune Gallery, Paris. Moves to Israel, works on a 3 kilometers Installation in the Neguev desert:“Faille I “, photographed by N.A.S.A, from the shuttle S.T.S 73
1996 Travels by the road from Paris to Sarajevo, Istanbul, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem. Starts to include the idea of Border in his art. Go back to Israël for 6 months, Meetings with different members of Jordan and Israel governments for the preparation of the project “Peace Symbol seen from the space”, on the border between Israël and Jordan”
1997 Seltzer-Lejeune Gallery, Paris. Go back to Israël and Jordan for the project
1998 Travels to Sinaï, Egypt. Diserns § Von Kaenel Gallery, Geneva
1999 Burford House Gallery, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, UK. Seltzer-Lejeune Gallery, Paris
2000-01 Travels by the road from Paris to Yougoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, round trip. Works on photographs, paintings, based on a geopolitical approach of conflicts and borders. Travels to New-York
2004-05 Travels to India, Thaïland, Cambodia, laos. In collaboration with assistant Hugo Hebreard, conceives « Ouroboros-team », as a collective in order to coordinate future environmental projects in several places in the world, based on recycling elements. Travels to Turkey, Jordan, Sinai, Israel: studies for the future Ouroboros projects
2005 CITIZENS group show, PM Gallery § House, London. City Gallery, Leicester. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2006 « Ouroboros Tel Aviv Israel » project is conceived, an installation of several hundred plastic bottles floating on the port of Jaffa
2007 Travels to India to plan an « Ouroboros Project » in the state of Karnataka. Travels to Nepal to plan an « Ouroboros Project » in the area of Pokhara Lake




Biography of Hugo HEBREARD :

Hugo HEBREARD has been traveling ever since he was a teenager. He lived in French Polynesia with his father for 2 years.  
He returned to France to finish an accountant degree. Shortly after his graduation he planed a trip to Asia.  
His meeting with artist Jean-Luc MEYER-ABBATUCCI in 2000 in India, was the start of a deep friendship and collaboration. 
In 2001, they traveled through West Africa on a Toyota truck for 6 months.  
In 2002, he goes back to India to meet his father in Karnataka where, for 2 years, they create and build wooden houses and beautiful garden on a fantastic property in a wild and remote area on the Arabian Sea coast south of Goa state.
In 2004, he travels to Asia: India, Thaïland, Laos, Cambodia, practicing photography and video. 
In 2005, he becomes Jean-Luc MEYER-ABBATUCCI’s assistant and helps found the Ouroboros Team, an art practice based collective to produce installations, such as large scales projects centered on environmental and recycling issues questioning the future of our planet and the way to preserve it.  
In 2006, he travels to  Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Israel. 
Ouroboros Team collective creates the first project in Israel: the Israel Jaffa project.
Recently, he went back to India and Nepal for the preparation of Ouroboros projects.