Museum Mondays: Jean Dubuffet’s work is on view alongside art works by Jackson Pollack and Alfonso Ossorio at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Read about the exhibition “Angels, Demons, and Savages” which is on view until March 12th.
©Jean Dubuffet, Courtesy Pace Gallery
Reblog of the day: Happy Birthday Jean Dubuffet!
Jean Dubuffet, Springtime in El Goléa (Painted in South Algeria), gouache on paper © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Spring is in the air! We hope you are out and about enjoying this beautiful day in the city!
Jean Dubuffet, “Site aléatoire avec un personnage (F 20) 7 mars 1982”, 26 3/8 x 39 3/8 in / 67 x 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas-backed paper (with one piece of collage). Image courtesy of the Fondation Dubuffet, Paris. Copyright © artdaily.org
Waddington Custot Galleries in London will be holding an exhibition of works from the last decade of Jean Dubuffet’s life, some of which have never been exhibited before. (via Exhibition of works from the last decade of Jean Dubuffet’s life opens at Waddington Custot Galleries)
Jean Dubuffet, “Mire G 14 (Bolivar), February 23, 1983”, acrylic on canvas-backed paper © 2012 Jean Dubuffet Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo courtesy The Pace Gallery
Today is the last day to visit Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years! “To see the last works,” Harmony Murphy, Pace Gallery curator, writes, “is to see all of Dubuffet, his theories contracted into an energetic force comprised of wild, fluid brushstrokes that appear as if they could escape from the confines of any boundaries imposed upon them.”
Installation view of ”Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years” © 2012 Jean Dubuffet / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, Photo by: G. R. Christmas / Courtesy The Pace Gallery
“He told me they were his last works,” Mr. Glimcher adds. “He said, with a chuckle: ‘I have been painting for over 40 years—I don’t think it is good for my health.’ ” (via Dubuffet’s Last Blast of Provocation)
Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years will go on through March 10th at the Pace Gallery’s 510 W. 25th St. location in New York.
ArtObserved reviews Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years at 510 West 25th Street.
“These expressive acrylic paintings, with their minor figurative references, are adamantly abstract and indicative of Dubuffet’s uncompromising creative mindset during the last years of his life.”
Still haven’t had a chance to stop by Dubuffet: The Last Two Years? Here is a sneak peek…we hope you get a chance to see the show at 510 West 25th Street!
Photography by: G.R. Christmas/The Pace Gallery
Pace founder, Arne Glimcher, giving insight on a Dubuffet painting currently on display at 510 West 25th Street. Please be sure to visit Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years on view until March 10th, 2012.
Didn’t get a chance to visit Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years opening at 510 West 25th Street on Thursday?! Take an inside look! The exhibit will be open until March 10th, we hope you get to see it in person.
Reblog of the day! Thank you for the mention! This exhibit will run until March 10th, 2012, we hope you can stop by to see the show.
Opens Tonight, Jan 19, 6-8p:
Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years
Pace Gallery, 510 W25th St., NYC
During the final two years of Jean Dubuffet’s life, his canvases exploded with raw emotion. The artist’s mental landscapes described a non-place, made perceptible by fluid intertwining lines and radiant colors that seem drawn from an alternate reality. “To see the last works,” Murphy writes, “is to see all of Dubuffet, his theories contracted into an energetic force comprised of wild, fluid brushstrokes that appear as if they could escape from the confines of any boundaries imposed upon them.” After twelve years of working on his Hourloupe cycle (the longest series of his career) with a palette of primarily red, blue, and black, contained by thick black outlines, in 1983 Dubuffet unleashed an extended color palette across the canvas, removing the borders and a representational reference point. Nearly twenty works drawn from the final two bodies of work by the artist (Mires and Non-Lieux) will be on view.
Reblog of the day sometimesatourist:
modern forrest
four trees, by jean dubuffet
