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André Marfaing, 1966, huile sur toile, 162 x 130 cm © Bertrand Michau, courtesy Galerie Be

"BLACK IS BLACK"

 

July 3  - July 30 2020 

Opening Thursday July 2 from 6 p.m.

Opening on Sunday July 5  on the occasion of Paris Gallery Week-End 

 

The artists of the exhibition:

Eric Anthony

Marie-Claude Bugeaud

Jean Degottex

Valerio Fasciani

Marc Ferroud

Mario Giacomelli

Hans Hartung

Bertrand Hughes

André Marfaing

Henri Michaux

Vera Molnar

Francois Morellet

Antonio Saura

Antoine Schneck 

Jean-Pierre Schneider

Pierre Tal Coat

Etienne Viard

Zao Wou-Ki

Visit of the exhibition: click here 

Matisse declares “black is a color” and this assertion will have a following.

This is the title taken by the exhibition at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1946, which brought together the greatest colourists of the last century: Bonnard, Braque, Matisse...on the other side of the Atlantic, black also became late 1940s a favored medium for artists like Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline.

This popular colour, material for experimentation, takes many forms. “Blacks are plural, writes Gilbert Lascault, blacks are variously changing, precious, shimmering…” Medium with which the artist merges, with which he reveals in a direct, authentic way, without deception, the essence of his thought.

For some artists everything is said with black, all colors are evoked. Soulages constitutes a range of blacks, associating in particular with his name that of the extreme blacks, the Outrenoirs. Black becomes an evocation of light; real light and spiritual light. This is how André Marfaing embraces black throughout his career. Black, he writes, "is for me the most natural means of expression."

Our exhibition associates around André Marfaing, emblematic figure of black, painters, photographers, installers for whom black is raw material, food for thought.

 

Berthet-Aittouares Gallery
14 and 29 rue de Seine


Tuesday Saturday
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
T: +33 (0)1 43 26 53 09

contact@galerie-ba.com

VIDEO

BLACK IS BLACK - ETIENNE VIARD
BLACK IS BLACK - ANTOINE SCHNECK
BLACK IS BLACK - BERTRAND HUGUES
BLACK IS BLACK - ERIC ANTOINE
BLACK IS BLACK - VERA MOLNAR
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