Soulages. Papers.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 20104 |
| Format | 17.5 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 159 p., bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754108713 |
Official catalog of the exhibition Pierre Soulages, les papiers at the Picasso Museum in Antibes from February 20 to the end of June 2016. Pierre Soulages (born in 1919 in Rodez) is recognized as one of the major figures of abstraction. His black paintings have been exhibited in the greatest museums around the world. But it is particularly to his work on paper—originally the artist's exclusive domain for experimenting with new avenues of research—that the Picasso Museum in Antibes wishes to pay tribute. This exhibition will bring together a number of papers from public and private collections, including those from the Soulages Museum in Rodez, or those preserved by the artist and unveiled to the public for the first time. Pierre Soulages (born December 24, 1919 in Rodez), "painter of black and light," is recognized as one of the major figures of abstraction. His artistic career began in 1947, with a first exhibition in Paris, at the Salon des Surindépendants, where he presented abstract canvases. These works, with their dark tones, attracted the attention of Picabia, who predicted: "With this, you will make many enemies." Picabia was wrong. After more than sixty-five years of creation, Soulages has established himself as the greatest painter of the current French scene, as one of the main representatives of informal painting. His black paintings (a black he calls "black-light" or "outrenoir") have been exhibited in the greatest museums in the world. At 96, Pierre Soulages continues his work. But it is particularly to his work on paper that the Picasso Museum in Antibes wishes to pay tribute, through this exhibition and its accompanying catalog. For alongside his practice of painting on canvas, Pierre Soulages, since his beginnings, has developed a parallel and complementary work on paper, whether using charcoal, walnut stain, gouache, ink, acrylic or graphite. "It was with the walnut stains of 1947 that I was able to gather myself and obey a sort of inner imperative. The truth is that I felt constrained by oil. I had practiced it before the war and I didn't know what constraints it imposed. Out of impatience, one day, in a fit of pique, armed with some stain and house painter's brushes, I threw myself onto paper. This work on paper was originally the artist's reserved domain to experiment with new avenues of research. The donation in 2005 to the Rodez museum of more than a hundred drawings revealed to the general public the extraordinary diversity of this production. The exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Antibes will bring together, around a large collection from the Soulages Museum collections, a number of papers from public and private collections, or even those kept by the artist and revealed to the public for the first time.
Official catalog of the exhibition Pierre Soulages, les papiers at the Picasso Museum in Antibes from February 20 to the end of June 2016. Pierre Soulages (born in 1919 in Rodez) is recognized as one of the major figures of abstraction. His black paintings have been exhibited in the greatest museums around the world. But it is particularly to his work on paper—originally the artist's exclusive domain for experimenting with new avenues of research—that the Picasso Museum in Antibes wishes to pay tribute. This exhibition will bring together a number of papers from public and private collections, including those from the Soulages Museum in Rodez, or those preserved by the artist and unveiled to the public for the first time. Pierre Soulages (born December 24, 1919 in Rodez), "painter of black and light," is recognized as one of the major figures of abstraction. His artistic career began in 1947, with a first exhibition in Paris, at the Salon des Surindépendants, where he presented abstract canvases. These works, with their dark tones, attracted the attention of Picabia, who predicted: "With this, you will make many enemies." Picabia was wrong. After more than sixty-five years of creation, Soulages has established himself as the greatest painter of the current French scene, as one of the main representatives of informal painting. His black paintings (a black he calls "black-light" or "outrenoir") have been exhibited in the greatest museums in the world. At 96, Pierre Soulages continues his work. But it is particularly to his work on paper that the Picasso Museum in Antibes wishes to pay tribute, through this exhibition and its accompanying catalog. For alongside his practice of painting on canvas, Pierre Soulages, since his beginnings, has developed a parallel and complementary work on paper, whether using charcoal, walnut stain, gouache, ink, acrylic or graphite. "It was with the walnut stains of 1947 that I was able to gather myself and obey a sort of inner imperative. The truth is that I felt constrained by oil. I had practiced it before the war and I didn't know what constraints it imposed. Out of impatience, one day, in a fit of pique, armed with some stain and house painter's brushes, I threw myself onto paper. This work on paper was originally the artist's reserved domain to experiment with new avenues of research. The donation in 2005 to the Rodez museum of more than a hundred drawings revealed to the general public the extraordinary diversity of this production. The exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Antibes will bring together, around a large collection from the Soulages Museum collections, a number of papers from public and private collections, or even those kept by the artist and revealed to the public for the first time.