The Juan March Foundation in Madrid currently has on display two beautiful works by Georges Mathieu in its exhibition entitled Lo Nunca Visto. De la pintura informalista al fotolibro de postguerra (1945-1965) [Never Before Seen: from informalist painting to the postwar photobook (1945-1965)].
Those two works are a 1951 painting (128.5 x 196 cm) in black and red on a white background, and the seminal Évanescence from 1945 (97 x 80 cm) which offers an early illustration of the dripping technique two years before Jackson Pollock.
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The Swiss collector and entrepreneur Jean Claude Gandur, president of the Gandur Foundation for Art which has loaned these two works, describes his interest in postwar European painting, of which he has constituted one of the most important private collections, according to the following terms:
I have known this European painting for a long, long time. I grew up with it and I have great esteem for it. I had the desire to bring together a major corpus of significant postwar works in order to rehabilitate the abstract European expressionism that had been unfairly relegated to the shadow of its American counterpart.
The Madrid exhibition, which opened on February 26, will go until June 5, 2016. Georges Mathieu will be shown alongside other major artists like Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Burri, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages and Nicolas de Staël.
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🇫🇷 L'exposition des œuvres sur papier de Georges Mathieu chez Perrotin est ouverte du mardi au samedi, de 11h à 19h, jusqu’au 30 septembre, au 2bis avenue Matignon.
« Georges Mathieu, fondateur de l'Abstraction lyrique, est reconnu internationalement pour ses œuvres sur toile énergiques, parfois monumentales. Il est aussi renommé en France pour sa production d’artiste total, dans les domaines les plus variés, des affiches aux médailles et pièces de monnaie, en passant par les tapisseries des Gobelins, les porcelaines de Sèvres et même l’architecture d’avant-garde.
Au sein de cette multitude de supports et de techniques, ses œuvres sur papier, qui furent souvent exposées au côté de ses peintures, ont rarement fait l’objet d’une présentation dédiée. Elles méritent pourtant qu’on leur prête une attention particulière, à la fois en tant qu’illustrations supplémentaires du talent protéiforme de Mathieu, et par leurs qualités propres, leurs caractéristiques distinctives qui nous offrent un récit sur l’évolution du style de l’artiste, parallèle à celui que nous offrent ses peintures. » – Édouard Lombard, Directeur du Comité Georges Mathieu
🌏 ‘Georges Mathieu, the founder of Lyrical Abstraction, is internationally renowned for his dynamic, sometimes monumental works on canvas. In France, he is also known as a total artist, working in a wide variety of fields, from posters to medals and coins, from Gobelins tapestries to Sèvres porcelain and even avant-garde architecture.
Amidst the vast array of media and techniques, his works on paper, although often exhibited alongside his paintings, have rarely been the subject of a separate exhibition. Yet they deserve special consideration, not only to showcase Mathieu's protean talent but because of their unique qualities that demonstrate the evolution of his style in parallel with his paintings.’
On view until September 30 at 2 bis avenue Matignon
Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-7PM
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Views of Georges Mathieu’s exhibition at Perrotin 2 bis Matignon, 2023
Photo: Tanguy Beurdeley
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