MAY 3 TO OCTOBER 13, 2024

TWO AVANT-GARDES
FROM THE NOUVELLE
ÉCOLE DE PARIS
TO SUPPORTS/SURFACES

Musée du Niel - Deux avant-gardes

Bazaine / Bertholle / Estève / Lapicque / Le Moal / Manessier / Arnal / Cane / Dezeuze / Devade / Dolla / Pincemin / Saytour / Viallat 

Antoine Villeneuve, art curator,
Éric Morin, set designer et Françoise Oppermann, art director

This exhibition presents two french avant-garde art forms of the 20th century, rarely associated with each other before.

1970, Supports/Surfaces movement

A word from the curator

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Musée du Niel - This exhibition presents two french avant-garde art forms of the 20th century, rarely associated with each other before.
Alfred Manessier, Chant du matin, 1952, huile sur toile
Collection Musée du Niel - Photographie F. Joncour - Adagp Paris 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.

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Musée du Niel - 1970, Supports/Surfaces movement
Daniel Dezeuze, Claie, 1974, peinture sur bois de placage
Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière - Photographie F. Joncour - Adagp Paris 2024

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.

To complete these two visions of art and painting, discover during your exhibition’s visit three exclusive interviews with Claude Viallat, Louis Cane et Daniel Dezeuze that will be free download using QR Codes.

main_title - Viallat 1974, colorant sur papier blanc

Claude Viallat, 1974/PP009, 1974, colorant sur papier blanc, 102 x 70 cm
Claude Viallat, 1974/PP008, 1974, colorant sur papier blanc, 102 x 70 cm
Collection Musée du Niel - Photographie F. Joncour - Adagp Paris 2024

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Antoine Villeneuve, art curator, january 2024

‘This exhibition offers an examination and an observation of the outcome and production of the two avant-garde movements. Two generations, two contexts, two sorts of influence and two visions, with a theory that reaches far back into history and a fierce counter theory, resulting in a testimony to the French creative and artistic reality of the latter half of the 20th century. However, in hindsight, there are also points in common that are found in the avant-garde movements such as the ability to transcend the challenges of figurative and abstract art as well as the inclination to share the same tastes, desires and the hunger for colour.’

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