The close connection between Dubuffet and Venice told in a retrospective at Palazzo Franchetti

Palazzo Franchetti in Venice will host from May 10 to October 20, 2019 the exhibition Jean Dubuffet and Venice, dedicated to the close relationship between one of the most important French artists of the postwar period and the city of Venice.

The exhibition, curated by Sophie Webel and Frédéric Jaeger, aims to pay homage and remember two famous exhibitions that were staged in the lagoon and marked Jean Dubuffet’s artistic journey: the exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in 1964 and at the French pavilion of the Biennale in 1984.

The artist’s three most significant cycles will be exhibited: from the series Célébration du sol, in which he deepened his research into the infinite effects of matter in the 1950s and to which Matériologies and Texturologies belong, to the cycle L’Hourloupe, the true “core” of Dubuffet’s research, developed between 1962 and 1974 and first presented in the exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in 1964.
About twenty works that reveal how the normal perception of the world is challenged by the visual stresses of the sinuous graphisms of this series; it is a crowded, richly evocative art that creates an alternative universe capable of penetrating reality itself. The itinerary closes with the Mires series made in the 1980s, consisting of about fifteen paintings with vibrant colors and fluid brushstrokes.

There will also be drawings and documents testifying to the 1964 and 1984 exhibitions, accompanied by photographs, letters and articles.

The exhibition is organized by ACP with the collaboration of the Dubuffet Foundation. The exhibition is enhanced by prestigious loans from Fondation Gandur Pour l’Art (Geneva) , Waddington Custot (London) and Fondation Beyeler (Basel).

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Image: Jean Dubuffet & Venice with Palazzo Franchetti in the background © ACP - Art Capital Partners

The close connection between Dubuffet and Venice told in a retrospective at Palazzo Franchetti

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