Two avant-gardes of the new Paris school of Supports/Surfaces
May 03, 2024
Two avant-gardes of the new Paris school of Supports/Surfaces
May 03, 2024
From May 3 to October 13, 2024.
This exhibition presents two french avant-garde art forms of the 20th century, rarely associated with each other before.
1941, six non-figurative painters
in art following the shock, despair and the resignation of defeat and surrender to the Occupation. These painters, led by Jean Bazaine fired by a spirit of resistance, upheld their attachment to the great French tradition, which was a decidedly patriotic gesture for the time, and simultaneously defined a new way of painting inspired by the previous avant-garde movement. They also heralded the pictorial revolutions of the post-war period. They formed the core of what came to be known as ‘La Nouvelle École de Paris’ which dominated and monopolised the French art scene until the mid-sixties.
1970, Supports/Surfaces movement
Almost thirty years later, in September 1970, a dozen painters, brought together by a profound desire to revolutionise and revive their art and the art of painting, launched the Supports/Surfaces movement. Claude Viallat, Noël Dolla, Marc Devade, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Louis Cane, Patrick Saytour, Daniel Dezeuze et André-Pierre Arnal fundamentally challenged the main rules of the Nouvelle École de Paris and of all academicism with their creative works of deconstruction and innovation, making a deep impression on the history of art.