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Art Basel 2015 ART BASEL 2015 Booth J8 18 - 21 June 2015 36, rue de Seine 75006 Paris — fr T.+33(0)1 46 34 61 07 f.+33(0)1 43 25 18 80 www.galerie-vallois.com NOUVEAU RÉALISME & FRENCH AVANT-GARDE [email protected] FROM THE 1960s Pilar Albarracín ES Gilles Barbier FR Julien Berthier FR Julien Bismuth FR Since its opening in 1990, and besides Nouveau Réalisme has never been a Alain Bublex FR its Contemporary Programme, Galerie movement unified in style. For some, it Massimo Furlan CH Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois is just a circumstantial grouping of Taro Izumi JP Richard Jackson US has specialised in the research and artists whose existence was extremely Alain Jacquet FR exhibition of a rigorous selection of short. For others, it has never been a Adam Janes US historical works from Nouveau Réalisme. group but more a philosophy about art, Jean-Yves Jouannais FR and its legacy still carries on today. US Martin Kersels […] Created by artists whose alliance Paul Kos US Paul McCarthy US Nouveau Réalisme = New perceptive is mainly based on a desire to fight the Jeff Mills US approach of the real. sclerosis induced by the structures of Arnold Odermatt CH Pierre Restany (1960) their time and to offer an alternative Henrique Oliveira BR as joyful as possible to the submissive FR Niki de Saint Phalle academism in the ways of expression – Pierre Seinturier FR Jean Tinguely ch may it be painting or sculpture – , these Keith Tyson GB objects, these works, these images do Jacques Villeglé FR not fall under any global definition, and Olav Westphalen De are not imprisoned in any dogma. Winshluss FR Catherine Francblin (1997) Virginie Yassef FR We should not be afraid to say it, Nouveau Réalisme was on many levels in advance compared to Pop Art, less entrenched in currently at the gallery style disputes, less attached to the notion of authorship, sometimes more WINSHLUSS audacious in the composition, but most / of all, it carried a less ambiguous Project Room Alain Jacquet political project. PEYBAK Nicolas Bourriaud (2005) Forthcoming On a Thursday, the 27th of October 1960, In addition to the permanent collection was signed the Constitutive Declaration and presentation of works from this ALAIN JACQUET of Nouveau Réalisme by Arman, François movement at the gallery, Georges September - October Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois have / Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and regularly dedicated large exhibitions Pierre Restany, gathered in Yves Klein’s HENRIQUE OLIVEIRA to the members of Nouveau Réalisme. The apartment. These artists were joined October - November gallery has been representing Jacques by César, Christo, Gérard Deschamps, Villeglé (since 1997) and the estates of Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely Saint Phalle and Daniel Spoerri. Although since 2012. this movement had a very short lifespan – Arman believed it lasted roughly 20 For Art Basel 2015, our booth will be minutes, others consider the premature entirely dedicated to this movement, and death of Yves Klein in June 1962 as will present master works particularly the end of the movement – its influence representative of the spirit of Nouveau and its importance still live on, as Réalisme. A publication will accompany can testify the numerous collective and this exhibition. individual retrospectives dedicated to these artists worldwide. Today, we consider that the Nouveau Réalisme movement consists of thirteen members, but the gallery is also interested in confronting their work with that of particular artists from the 1960s French Avant-Garde, such as Alain Jacquet whose estate we represent since 2014. A lot more than a “group” and a lot better than a “style”, the European Nouveau Réalisme now appears to be an open trend. Pierre Restany (1963) Niki de Saint Phalle Jacques Villeglé.
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