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Martial Raysse. The Dessins
Exhibition
Martial Raysse. The Dessins
30 Jan 2020 – 7 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 6, rue du Pont de Lodi
- Paris
Paris - 75006
- France
It’s easy to imagine him arriving at the gallery with a big box of drawings and a spur-of-the moment notion of putting on a show.
About
This exhibition provides an intimate glance into the work of Martial Raysse, making available for the general public a body of work that has been little known until now. The lens offered by drawing often gives one the impression of having surprised the artist in his studio. There is a bit of that here, in the spontaneity of the compositions and poetic assemblages, but it’s not everything. There is also the image of work, control, straightening and fixing up, of past time and the surprising alignments this allows for today. [...]
Raysse’s drawings say much about his practice. Everything is permitted, all the pencils, all papers and collages, including photocopies, all the pirouettes and acrobatic turns imaginable. [...]
He is one of those artists who has always drawn, who is always drawing. In the box he brought to the gallery was a selection traversing different periods of his life. [...]
Since the end of the 1950s, Martial Raysse has never stopped questioning his works in progress, never stopped developing them in spite of the risk of criticism. This has lent multiple faces to his whole body of work. But there are also invariables, themes and forms that regularly reappear, but made-up and costumed in what are sometimes slightly misleading resurgences from the past.
© Anaël Pigeat
