"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:
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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