1966
Impact 1, Musée d'Art moderne, Céret, May. Exhibition organized by Claude Viallat and Jacques Lepage (Arman, Ben, Bioulès, Biras, Buraglio, Buren, Chubac, Dufo, Eppelé, Farhi, Gali-Camprubi, Gette, Gilli, Jordi-Pericot, Kermarrec, Malaval, Miralda, Parmentier, Parré, Prosi, Rabascall, Rouan, Salvado, Stotzki, Tissinier, Toroni, Venet, Viallat).
Le Litre de Var Supérieur, Galerie A, Nice, 26October.Exhibition organized byBen and François Mérino (Alocco, Ben, Bozzi, Brecht, Chubac, Dietman, Farhi, Mosset, Klein, Oldenbourg). "Viallat's contribution described as Viallat on the oor, on the walls, on the ceiling, in the street, on the sidewalk."
1967
Vth Paris Biennial (included Toni Grand and Patrick Saytour).
Hall des remises en question, Nice,
14 December 1967 - 4 January 1968. Exhibition organized by Ben (Alocco, Arman, Ben, Biga, Brecht, Cane: rubber stamps; Charton, Dolla: drying racks; Farhi, Joe Jones, Klein, Raysse, Saytour: stomped cardboard; Spoerri, Viallat: unstretched canvas).
1968
Quelque chose, open-air exhibition on Croisette Beach, in front of the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, 18 May (Alocco, Chubac, Saytour, Viallat). Patrick Saytour unrolled a canvas (14 x 0.80 m) covered in progressive rows of blue and white stripes, and worked another canvas (8 x 2 m)
by folding in order to obtain a regular alignment of blue and red brush marks
on a white ground. Claude Viallat unfolded a canvas (13 x 2 m) on which an orange form was repeatedly painted on a blue ground.
Oltre l'avanguardia, Anfo, 28 August - 3 September (Alocco, Chubac, Dolla, Pagès, Saytour, Viallat).
Un paese + l'avanguardia, Novara, 5-18October (Alocco,Chubac,Dolla, Pagès, Saytour, Viallat).
Dossier 68, assembling multiples and serigraphs by 48 artists including: Alocco, Arnal, Ben, Cane, Charvolen, Chubac, Dezeuze, Dolla, Gerz, Messager, Mosset, Pagès, Saytour, Viallat...
1969
II Centro La Comune, Brescia,
21-27 February (Pagès showed 40 traditional arrangements of 1 cubic meter of bricks and 1 cubic meter of logs; Valensi presented a lm and photographic documents).
Louis Cane solo show at Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris.
Alocco, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat. Peinture, sculpture, architecture, École spéciale d'architecture, Paris, 14 April - 4 May. Exhibition organized by Pincemin who appointed Viallat to choose the participants. Buraglio refused to participate.
La Peinture en question, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Le Havre, 7 June - 7 July (Cane, Dezeuze, Saytour, Viallat).
The catalog for this exhibition set out a version of the rst program of the future Supports/Surfaces group.
Coaraze 69, Coaraze, 21 - 27 July (Dezeuze, Pagès, Saytour, Viallat). Open-air exhibition orchestrated by Jacques Lepage. Film by André Valensi made on this occasion.
ABC Productions, open-air exhibition, square de Palavas, Montpellier, July (Alkema, Azemard, Bioulès: six lacquered doors presented in three diptychs, Clément).
Noël Dolla, Restructuration n° 2, Authion summit in the French Alps, October (painted rocks).
1970
Dezeuze, Pagès, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat, Foyer International d'Accueil de Paris, 20 March - 5 April.
100 artistes dans la ville, Musée du Travail, Montpellier, 5 - 20 May (Anderson, Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat).
Rencontres, Limoges, 16 - 23 May. Exhibition in the city organized by Ben, Jude, Viallat, Mazeaufroid (Blanqui hall: Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat).
Noël Dolla, Restructuration n° 3, Authion summit in the French Alps (work on snow).
NoëlDolla,Restructurationn°4,Authion summit, June (traces in nature).
Intérieur-Extérieur, summer 1970 (Dezeuze, Pagès, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat). In Levens, the artists treated a eld; in Villefranche: the beach and a wall; in Aubais: a quarry;
in Nice: the forest, the dunes, the underbrush; in Cantaron: the bed of the Paillon river; in Banyuls-sur-Mer: an inlet (la Tanquade); in Le Boulou: a dead end;
in Céret: a plaza; in Perpignan: an art gallery (La main de fer); in Le Boulou: a barn;
in Maguelonne: the beach.
Marcelin Pleynet, "Contradiction principale, contradiction spéci que", Tel Quel, n° 43, autumn.
Supports/Surfaces, ARC, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville, Paris, 23September-15October (Bioulès, Devade, Dezeuze, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat).
Publications: Supports/Surfaces and Tract Vert: Cane (absent from the exhibition), Devade, Dezeuze.
1971
Noël Dolla placed cork buoys on the Tinée river, Nice, February.
Travaux de l'été 70, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris,15-22April (Dezeuze,Pagès, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat).
Supports/Surfaces, Art et Prospective, théâtre de la Cité internationale, Cité universitaire, Paris, 19 April - 8 May (Bioulès, Devade, Dezeuze, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat;
Arnal, Cane, Dolla, Pincemin participated as guests).
1st issueofthereviewPeinture-Cahiers théoriques, June (editorial committee: Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze).
Supports/Surfaces, éâtre de Nice, 15 - 20 June (Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Grand, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat). Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, exhibited in the theater lobby; Dolla, Grand, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat, exhibited in the the theater and on the stage (thereby materializing in space their recent scission). Invited, Pincemin did not send his artworks, though he created the poster.
Dolla, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat, Rivière des Outaouais, Lac des Castors, Quebec, August (organized by Gervais Jassaud).
Grand, Saytour, Viallat, interventions in the open air, Camargue, August.
Saytour, Viallat, interventions in the open air, Saint-Jean-du-Gard, August.
VIIth Paris Biennial, 24 September -1 November (Dolla, Viallat).
Pagès and Valensi appeared in the catalog but did not participate in the exhibition. Supports/Surfaces was represented only through the mention: "Supports/Surfaces; Peinture, Cahiers théoriques" followed by the names of the six artists (Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Pincemin), and through the sales of the book by Maria Antonietta Macciocchi: De la Chine.
Tract vert: La Biennale de Paris ou lorsque les ministres d'Aragon se font les commanditaires des ministères (24 September).
ClaudeViallat,open-airexhibitionina forest, Limoges, October.
1972
Jaccard, Entrelacs, outils, empreintes sur toiles contrepliées, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, May.
60-72, Douze ans d'art contemporain en France, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, May-September (included Dolla
and Viallat).
1973
Louis Cane - Marc Devade, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, March.
Réalité - Réalités, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, March (Bertholin, Cane, Bechtle, Salt, Cottingham, Don Eddy, Staiger, Flavin, Judd, LeWitt, Stella, Boltanski, Le Gac, Messager, Meurice, Viallat).
XIIth São Paulo Biennial, Brazil, August (included Arnal, Jaccard).
VIIIth Paris Biennial, September (included Arnal, Cane, Dolla, Jaccard, Meurice, Rouan).
La ri essione sulla pittura - 7a Rassegna internazionale d'Arte, Acireale,
29 September-15 October
(included Cane, Devade, Viallat).
Marc Devade, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, December.
Jean-Michel Meurice, CNAC, Paris, December.
1974
Faucher, Hantaï, Rouan, Viallat, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Louis Cane, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, March.
Noël Dolla, Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, May.
Nouvelle Peinture en France -Pratiques/ Théories, travelling exhibition, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, 21 June -
29 July; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chambéry, 5 August -15 September; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 29 September - November; Neue Galerie/Sammlung Ludwig,Aix-la-Chapelle. eexhibition was also supposed to travel to Portugal and Canada (Bioulès, Dezeuze, Dolla, Jaccard, Meurice, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat). Cane and Devade, invited, refused to show.
Claude Viallat, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, December.
1975
Nouvelle Peinture en France - Pratiques / Théories, Neue Galerie, Aix-la-Chapelle, January-February; CAPC Bordeaux, March-April; Musée de Porto, May-June; Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisboa, July- August; Fondation Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad, Hovikodden, 16 October -
5 November (continuation of the travelling show originated at Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, which included Dolla, Jaccard, Meurice, Valensi, Bioulès, Dezeuze, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat).
Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 22 April - 22 June; exhibition organized by Rini Dippel and E. L. de Wilde (included Cane).
Pittura, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, April-May (included Dolla, Viallat).
Analytische Malerei, Galleria La Bertesca- Masnata, Düsseldorf, June; exhibition organized by Klaus Honnef and Catherine Millet (included Devade, Dolla, Viallat).
12 x 1, Europalia 75, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, November-December (included Cane, Dezeuze, Meurice, Viallat). Several galleries in Brussels participated: Dezeuze and Meurice exhibited at Galerie D.; Pincemin,MartinezandValensishowedat Galerie Kirwin.
A proposito della Pittura... / Betre ende
het Schildern... / Concerning Painting..., travelling exhibition, Museum Van Bommel - Van Dam, Venlo; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam; Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, November 1975 - march 1976 (included Bannard, Cacciola, Camoni, Ceccini, De Keyser, Dolla, Erben, Fisher, Gastini, Gaul, Gri a, Guarnieri, Isnard, Morales, Olitski, Poons, Rajlich, Teraa, Van Severen, Viallat, Zappettini).
1976
Nouvelle Peinture en France - Pratiques / Théories, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, 21 February - 14 March.
Cronaca - percorso didattico attraverso la pittura americana degli anni 60 e la pittura europea degli anni 70, Galleria Civica, Modena, 18 March - 2 May (included Cane, Devade, Dolla).
Toni Grand - Bernard Pagès, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, April-May.
Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Peintures, ARC, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville, Paris, April-July.
Patrick Saytour, Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris.
Christian Jaccard, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, June. e exhibition travelled to the French Institute in Stockholm in September.
I colori della Pittura - una situazione europea, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Roma, 8july-10September (includedDevade, Dolla, Cane, Valensi, Viallat).
06 - Art 76, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Sarah Campbell Bla er Gallery, University of Houston, Texas; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, 13 November 1976 - 10 January 1977 (Aillaud, Erró, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Rouan, Titus- Carmel, Viallat).
1977
L'avant-garde1960-1976:troisvilles,
trois collections, Musée Cantini, Marseille, February-March; Musée de Peinture
et de Sculpture, Grenoble, April-May; Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, summer; Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, fall (included Bioulès, Buraglio, Cane, Dezeuze, Grand, Jaccard, Meurice, Pagès, Pincemin, Rouan, Valensi, Viallat).
Canvasses without stretchers, Gimpel Gallery, London, October (Dolla, Jaccard, Meurice, Viallat).
Unstretched Surfaces, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
5 November - 16 December (Dezeuze, Jaccard, Meurice, Pincemin, Bernadette Bour, Burchman, Delaroyère, Christopher Hill, Mac Collum, Plagens, Wudl, Yokomi).
Bilder ohne Bilder, Rheinisches Landes- museum, Bonn, 8 December 1977 -
8 January 1978 (included Cane, Devade)
1966
Impact I, Musée d'Art moderne, Céret. Text by Jacques Lepage. [Bioulès, Buraglio, Rouan, Viallat.]
1968
Jeune Peinture, La Gerbe, Montpellier. Foreword by André-Pierre Arnal. [Arnal, Bioulès, Dezeuze, Viallat.]
1969
Alocco, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat. École spéciale d'architecture, Paris. Essays by Raphaël Monticelli and Arlette Sayag; artists' writings.
Environs 1, public library, Tours. Texts by Bernard Pagès and Raphaël Monticelli. [Dolla, Pagès, Saytour, Viallat.]
La Peinture en question, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Le Havre. [Cane, Dezeuze, Saytour, Viallat.]
1970
Travaux de Dezeuze, Pagès, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat, Foyer International d'Accueil de la Ville, Paris. Texts by Dezeuze and Viallat.
100 Artistes dans la ville, Musée du Travail, Montpellier. Essays by Pierre Gaudibert and Jacques Lepage; artists' writings. [Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat.]
Support-Surface, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville, ARC, Paris. Texts by the artists. [Bioulès, Devade, Dezeuze, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat.]
1971
Supports / Surfaces, Art et Prospective,
Cité universitaire, théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris. Poster-manifesto by Dezeuze, Saytour and Viallat. [Bioulès, Devade, Dezeuze, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat; invited: Arnal, Cane, Dolla, Pincemin.]
1973
La ri essione sulla pittura, Acireale, "7a Rassegna Internazionale d'Arte". Texts by Filiberto Menna, Italo Mussa and Tommaso Trini. [Cane, Devade, Viallat.]
1974
Dolla / Isnard / Viallat , Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa. Essays by Sabine Gowa, Jacques Lepage, Raphaël Monticelli and Claude Viallat.
Dezeuze, Saytour, Viallat, Maison de la Culture, Rennes. Texts by Christian Prigent; collective text by Dezeuze, Saytour and Viallat.
Nouvelle Peinture en France - Pratiques / éories, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Chambéry; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aix-la-Chapelle; CAPC,Bordeaux. Preface by Jacques Beau et and Bernard Ceysson; presentation by Georges Boudaille; preface by Catherine Millet; essays by Mathieu Bénézet, Chantal Béret and Bernard Lamarche-Vadel; artists' writings.
[Bioulès, Dezeuze, Dolla, Jaccard, Meurice, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat.]
1975
12 x 1, Europalia 75, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Essays by Alfred Pacquement, Marcelin Pleynet; artists' writings. [Cane, Dezeuze, Meurice, Viallat.]
Analytische Malerei, Galleria La Bertesca, Düsseldorf, Genoa, Milan, 1975. Catalog published by Editions Masnata: essays
by Klaus Honnef and Catherine Millet. [Devade, Dolla, Viallat.]
Dolla, Isnard, Jaccard, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat - Peintures sans châssis, Centre national d'Art contemporain, Paris. Essays by Bernard Ceysson, Pontus Hulten, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Catherine Masson, Alfred Pacquement; artists' writings.
1976
I colori della Pittura, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Roma. Essays by Giulio Carlo Argan and Italo Mussa. [Cane, Devade, Dolla.]
Toni Grand - Bernard Pagès, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne. Essays by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel and Jacques Lepage; interview with Toni Grand by Bernard Ceysson.
06-Art 76, University of California, University Art Museum, Berkeley. Essay by Jean-François de Canchy. [Rouan, Viallat.]
1977
Unstretched Surfaces, LAICA, Los Angeles. Essays by Jean-Luc Bordeaux, Jean-François de Canchy, Pontus Hulten and Alfred Pacquement (in English and French). [Dezeuze, Jaccard, Meurice, Pincemin.]
Bilder ohne Bilder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn. Essays by Giulio Carlo Argan, Klaus Honnef and Gabriele Honnef-Harling, Filiberto Menna and Marcelin Pleynet (in German). [Cane, Devade.]
L'Avant-Garde 1960 - 1976 : trois villes, trois collections, Saint-Étienne. [Bioulès, Buraglio, Cane, Dezeuze, Grand, Jaccard, Meurice, Pagès, Pincemin, Rouan, Valensi, Viallat.]
1990
Le Bel Âge - Supports/Surfaces, Chambord. Preface by Pierre-Jean Galdin. [Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Dezeuze, Dolla, Grand, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat.]
1991
Supports/Surfaces, Musée d'Art moderne, Saint-Étienne. Essays by Yves Aupetitallot, Jacques Beau et and Bernard Ceysson. [Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Grand, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Valensi, Viallat.]
1992
Supports/Surfaces, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Essays by Yves Aupetitallot, Jacques Beau et, Bernard Ceysson, Nehama Guralnik (in Hebrew and English). [Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat.]
1993
Supports/Surfaces, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama. Essays by Jacques Beau et and Bernard Ceysson, Kiyoshi Okada, Hitoshi Morita and Gen Umezu (in Japanese and French). [Arnal, Bioulès, Cane, Devade, Dezeuze, Dolla, Pagès, Pincemin, Saytour, Viallat.]
1998
Les Années Supports-Surfaces dans les collections du Centre Georges Pompidou, éditions du Jeu de Paume - éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris. Essays by Didier Semin, Marcelin Pleynet, Éric de Chassey, Arnauld Pierre, Stéphanie Jamet, Katy Toma, Daniel Abadie.
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Dampérat, Marie-Hélène, 2000, Supports/ Surfaces 1966-1974, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne.
Grinfeder, Marie-Hélène, 1991, Les Années Supports/Surfaces 1965-1990, Herscher, Paris.
Millet, Catherine, 1987, L'Art contemporain en France, Flammarion, Paris.
Minière, Claude, 1985, L'Art en France, Nouvelles éditions françaises, Paris.
Rodgers, Paul, 1982, The subject of painting, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
Tronche, Anne, 1973, L'Art actuel en France, André Balland, Paris.
25 Ans d'art en France 1960 - 1985, Larousse, Paris, 1986 .
Supports/Surfaces, conference proceedings under the direction of Éric de Chassey. 24 June 1998, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, coll. Conférences et colloques, Paris, 2000.
Le Moment Supports/Surfaces, Ceysson Editions d'Art, 2012
Supports/Surfaces A Moment A Movement, Ceysson Editions d'Art, 2014