Exhibitions

Let meet us again in January 2020 for our next exhibition

We are lending a work by Jean Gorin at this exhibition in Dunkerque

An exhibition dedicated to the work of Herbin on the theme of volutes? A paradox! Is not Auguste Herbin one of the painters most strongly identified with geometric abstraction, whose compositions consist entirely of squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and half-moon shapes, their forms marked out using a ruler and compass and strictly ordered within a vertical-horizontal grid? This is certainly true of Herbin at the prime of his career—the period after 1945 in which he towered over the world of European art due to the beauty of his compositions and the force of his ideas.

We participate to this exhibition, that promises rich discoveries

The gallery close its doors to the public for the summer but invites you to travel to the exhibitions related on our website.

Some will be surprised to find here the link to a André Masson (1896-1987) exhibition, to which the gallery lends a few works.

After having participated in the festivities by lending some major works from the Lahumière collection to the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt and the Pompidou Center in Paris as well as showing them at the gallery, we are delighted to be featuring a fine set of works by Vasarely on our stand at Basel this year. The Stadel Museum show retraced Vasarely’s painterly career from the early days up to his “op”(or “kinetic”) period. The Pompidou show focused above all on the “Vasarely phenomenon” when he was at the height of his fame in the 1960s and ‘70s.

After the great success of the two previous editions in 2017 and 2018, we are pleased to announce the third and final show “Vis-à-vis, Fernand Léger and his friends. Part 3”. Focused on creative friendship and collaboration, this cycle of exhibitions puts together two artworks: one piece from the museum’s collections next to one made by another artist, painter or sculptor, with whom Fernand Léger (1881-1955) became friends or developed artistic relationships during his career.

Hans Jörg Glattfelder is one of the foremost exponents of Concrete Art and has been a decisive force in its continued development. Museum Ritter has taken his 80th birthday as the occasion to present a selection of choice works that highlight his oeuvre from the1960s to this day. Almost 30 paintings and reliefs from over five decades, together with around 50 collages and drawings grant deep insights into the various phases of his work.

For this exhibition at Galerie Lahumière, Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz and Moon-Pil Shim lead us into a dialogue about space, light, and movement. While their works differ in the media they use, they share a strong focus on their surrounding space, that of the wall or the gallery (indeed, both artists have created many monumental commissioned works), as well as the intrinsic space of the work itself—that is, what takes place between its various elements and what is the relationships between these elements? Different methods are employed to respond to these questions, inviting us to reflect on the permanence of painting as an eternal window onto the world and, a subject that has always preoccupied abstract painters, how can painting make visible that which is invisible?

With the white she covers exclusively her sculptures, Nathalie Delasalle works to reconcile the material (the sculpture) to the intangible (the light).

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This is the year of Vasarely! After a show of his paintings at the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt from September 2018 to January 2019, to which we contributed works, another Vasarely exhibition is currently underway at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

We are featuring works by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), echoing the ongoing shows at our gallery and the Pompidou Center (to which we lent works). Another part of the stand will reflect our January show of Sole Sisters, devoted to the works of Ode Bertrand, Marcelle Cahn (1895–1981), Isabelle de Gouyon Matignon, and Aurelie Nemours (1910–2005). The catalogue raisonné of Nemours’ paintings in oil and in vinyl, edited by Serge Lemoine, has just been published, and to celebrate the event we will organize a signing of copies on our stand in presence of Serge Lemoine.

The worlds of Vasarely are many, reflecting the diversity of visual experiences that inspire them. Their common denominator is that they all take observation as their starting point. Only scale varies: for Vasarely, abstraction is simply the consequence of adjusting perception to different levels of reality. In 1945, he created a series of collages using shapes cut out from microphotographs. Here in lies one of the keys to his approach to abstraction—it is less a matter of breaking the ties with nature than of seeking out new forms from deep within what he called nature’s "internal geometry." In this way, the world of cells and crystals opened up to him.

The exhibition who opened in Barcelona at the Pedrera, finds a stop at the MACA of Alicante,

Discover the first major French retrospective devoted to Victor Vasarely. Explore the "Vasarely continent" with three hundred works, objects and documents.

“Neither my studies, my work, nor my life was influenced by painting of any sort. I was too removed from the experiments of the time. I kept going deeper into my solitude.” Thus wrote Aurelie Nemours to me in November 2005. A few weeks later she died. Should this comment be taken as words written on the brink of life, or understood as the path taken by every artist—and perhaps every human being? The expression “go deeper into solitude” reminds us that Nemours was also a poet, even as it assumes a special meaning in this exhibition.

Let meet us again in 2019 for our exhibition ’Sole sisters’ four women in the geometric abstract art

L’exposició «Obres obertes. L’art en moviment, 1955-1975» reuneix una àmplia i acurada selecció d’obres de 37 artistes internacionals que busquen una transformació profunda del rol de l’espectador a través de la participació i la interacció amb l’obra d’art.És una de les últimes avantguardes artístiques del segle XX, però és més vigent que mai. És el cinetisme o l’art del moviment.

This exhibition where we are lending works will be more about the progression of Vasarely’s painting. It will analyses his researches through

When Dewasne discovered the model for the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1970 in the company of Mr Bordas, Germain Viatte and the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, he protested against the gray color envisaged to cover the building