Supports/Surfaces. Notre collection à l’affiche

Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, Luxembourg

On the occasion of major recent acquisitions emblematic of the Supports/Surfaces collective, the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart in Luxembourg is taking a closer look at this artistic movement by presenting all its works.

By radically opposing the major trends of their time, both ideologically and aesthetically, the members of Supports/Surfaces rejected traditional mediums, deconstructed the codes of painting and explored new forms and techniques. They focus on the materiality of the medium, moving beyond the canvas to produce unusual and highly inventive works. Come and discover the forerunners of contemporary art in France!

Curators & authors of the exhibition catalogue
Michel Polfer, Director of the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart
Bernard Ceysson, art historian and curator

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Lucio Fontana | UN FUTURO C’È STATO. IL Y A BIEN EU UN FUTUR.

Musée Soulages, Rodez

An Italian art historian once said that there were three essential twentieth-century artists in his country—the founding fathers, as it were: Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico and Lucio Fontana.

The exhibition “Lucio Fontana. Un Futuro c’è stato” was born out of a conversation with Pierre Soulages in 2020, during which these very different artists were compared, but linked by their relationship with time and space. Alongside Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana was an artist—more a sculptor than a painter, no doubt—whom Soulages hoped would one day be exhibited in his museum.

This event stands as the first major exhibition on Fontana since his retrospectives at the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou in 1987 and the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2014. This one in Rodez is in keeping with the museum’s mission of presenting the great names of modern art, and offers a journey through Fontana’s entire œuvre, before and after the War, in Argentina and Italy, an evocation of his creative variety: paintings, papers, sculptures, ceramics and light, and space installations.

Exhibition catalogue (240 pages) bilingual, French and English. Edited by Professor Paolo Campiglio. Published by Gallimard.

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InformELLEs

Hessen Kassel Museum, Germany

From 11 October 2024 to 26 January 2025, Hessen Kassel Heritage will be paying homage to women artists and Informalism from the 1950s/60s with “InformELLEs”, a special exhibition at the New Gallery.

Between the early 1950s and the early 1960s, art informel, or informalism, became the dominant art movement in Europe. Completely beyond the classic principles of form and design, the works focused on the open creation process. At first glance, this abstract movement appears to be dominated primarily by art produced by male artists. However, this exhibition now examines art informel from a new perspective, and pays homage to sixteen of its leading female proponents, including Maria Lassnig, Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, Judit Reigl, Mary Bauermeister, Marie-Louise von Rogister and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. It will not only feature works by these well-known names, but also by rediscovered other long forgotten female artists. On the basis of questions about networks, exhibition participations and reception from a sociology of art perspective, it will also explore the mechanisms of the art business.

The exhibition is a collaborative project organised by Hessen Kassel Heritage, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen in cooperation with the Research Centre of Art Informel at the Art History Institute of the University of Bonn.

Œuvrer pour la sculpture

Museum of Art and History of the City of Meudon

The Choice of Painting

Tessé Museum, Le Mans

The Tessé Museum is presenting the exhibition “The Choice of Painting, Another History of Abstraction, 1962-1989” from February 10th to June 9th, 2024. It offers a panorama of three decades of abstract painting in France, from the 1960s to the 1980s.

How did artists kept on painting when the trend, starting from the 1960s, gazed towards pop art, non-art, conceptual art, or minimalism? Through about sixty works, the exhibition explores this interrogation by reflecting the diversity of new pictorial approaches based on a different conception of gesture, the role of colour, and the notion of painting.

Victor Vanoosten, exhibition curator

Musée de Tessé
2 avenue de Paderborn
72000 Le Mans

Free Admission
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Catalogue: THE CHOICE OF PAINTING Another history of abstraction in France 1962-1989.

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Americans in Paris | Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962

Grey Art Museum, NYU

Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. “Americans in Paris” explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more during the period from 1946 to 1962.

While the U.S. art scene was dominated by the rise of Abstract Expressionism, Americans working in Paris experimented with a range of formal strategies and various approaches to both abstraction and figuration.

Showcased here are some 130 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles, and works on paper by nearly 70 artists, providing a fresh perspective on a creative ferment too often overshadowed by the contemporaneous ascendency of the New York art scene.

Debra Bricker Balken, Lynn Gumpert, curators

Travelling exhibition: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy: September 3, 2024–January 5, 2025; The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery: February 11 2025, –June 1, 2025

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Léonce Rosenberg’s apartment. De Chirico, Ernst, Léger, Picabia…

Musée Picasso, Paris

The Musée national Picasso-Paris presents its new temporary exhibition, “Léonce Rosenberg’s apartment. De Chirico, Ernst, Léger, Picabia…”. In the form of evocation of a vanished setting, the exhibition will bring to light a previously unpublished and little-known pictorial ensemble, by major artists of the inter-war period.

Claude Viallat, Et Pourtant Si…

Carré d'Art, Nîmes

For the first time, Le Carré d’Art in Nîmes, Viallat’s birthplace, presents an exhibition dedicated to this artist, founder of the Support/Surface movement. The exhibition focuses on recent works by Viallat, taken directly from the artist’s studio. Paintings, sculptures and assemblages are presented to demonstrate the talent of this exceptional colorist.

A founding member of the Supports/Surfaces group and historic figure of French abstract art, Viallat is tirelessly developing a body of work which is at once instantly recognisable and constantly on the move. In addition to his paintings, the exhibition will feature numerous objects, somewhere between sculpture and fortuitous assemblage that are always at once precariously balanced and consummately elegant. Their playful simplicity dialogues constantly with the intense formal and chromatic pleasures of his painting.

CARRÉ D’ART-MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
PLACE DE LA MAISON CARRÉE – 30000 NÎMES

Open daily except monday, from 10 am to 6pm

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Miró – Picasso, Celebración Picasso 1973-2023

Picasso Museum and Miró Foundation, Barcelone

On the occasion of the “Celebración Picasso 1973-2023” program, a total of fifty events celebrating Picasso are being organized around the world, including an exceptional collaboration between the Picasso Museum and the Miró Foundation. Focusing on two themes, the friendship between the two artists and their attachment to Barcelona, the exhibition brings together over 250 works to be discovered at both the Picasso Museum and the Miró Foundation.

The exhibition is organised around six major chronological and thematic axes and will bring together a set of more than 250 works from public and private collections from all around the world with the aim of exhibiting, one beside the other, two artists who transformed 20th century art with their own voice and an unprecedented plastic intensity. From the time they met in 1917 in Barcelona to their last monumental projects, including the episode of the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic in Paris in 1937 or the interest in the ancestral technique of ceramics, the visitor will also discover how these two artists and friends shared many transcendental moments of their careers.

Miró-Picasso forms part of the events of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, which includes a total of 50 exhibitions dedicated to Picasso that will take place around the world between the autumn of 2022 and the spring of 2024.

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