NEW REALISM = NEW PERCEPTIVE APPROACHES OF THE REAL

33 & 36, rue de Seine , César, Christo, Gérard Deschamps, 75006 — FR T.+33(0)1 46 34 61 07 François Dufrêne, , , F.+33(0)1 43 25 18 80 , , , www.galerie-vallois.com , Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé [email protected]

Pilar Albarracín ES The Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois gallery Gilles Barbier FR Julien Berthier FR has been committed to defending the artists Julien Bismuth FR of New Realism since its opening in 1990. Alain Bublex FR We are not pioneers in this generation of Robert Cottingham US artists: Iris Clert, Galerie J, Galerie Rive John DeAndrea US Massimo Furlan CH gauche (with Jean Larcade), and the Iolas Taro Izumi JP Gallery were their great discoverers. Richard Jackson US Adam Janes US However, at a time when it was frowned upon to Jean-Yves Jouannais FR Martin Kersels US have a trans-generational programmation, we were Paul Kos US for a long time the only ones of our generation Zhenya MachnevaRu to claim our dedication to this exceptional group Paul McCarthy US of artists. Since 1991, Arman, Jacques Villeglé, Jeff Mills US Arnold Odermatt CH François Dufrêne, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Henrique Oliveira BR Tinguely have been exhibited in our spaces. Peybak ir César also occupied a prominent place here. Lucie Picandet FR Niki de Saint Phalle FR Emanuel Proweller PL To have personally known these artists, to Lázaro Saavedra CU continue to show their most signifi cant works, Pierre Seinturier FR to have confronted them in several group shows Peter Stämpfl ich with younger visual artists whom we are just as Jean Tinguely ch Keith Tyson GB proud to represent, is the DNA of our gallery. Tomi Ungerer FR The contemporaneity of the pieces gathered Jacques Villeglé FR in this exhibition once again demonstrates William Wegman US the need for a plural perspective that will Winshluss FR Virginie Yassef FR allow each of us to renew our apprehension about this extraordinary generation. Constitutive Declaration of New Realism, October 1960

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24.07.2021

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday June 10th 2021 from 6 p.m.

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Arman, Déchets Bourgeois (detail), 1959