Pierre Soulages
Subtitle: une rétrospective
By: fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Suisse ; commissaires de l'exposition, Bernard Blistène, directeur, Musée national d'art moderne-centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Camille Morando, responsable de la documentation des oeuvres pour les collections modernes, Musée national d'art moderne-centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou
Contributors: Blistène, Bernard, editor; Morando, Camille, editor; Fondation Pierre Gianadda
Publisher: Fondation Pierre Gianadda; Centre Pompidou
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Martigny; Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9782884431651
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; French Painting; Black in art
Work titles: Paintings
Description: Pierre Soulages, born December 24, 1919 in Rodez (Aveyron), lives and works between Paris and Sète (Hérault). A major figure in the abstract, it is recognized as one of the greatest painters of the current French scene for his work running through the second half of the XX th and beginning of the XXI thcentury. "Soulages chooses very young color that carries all the others: black. He remains very attached to it, so that it participates in his artistic identity. Major in its art, it declines, according to the tools with which it is applied, on smooth or rough surfaces, which reveal a multiple and unsuspected light. "Interested in Prehistory and Romanesque art," Soulages develops its creation outside of any stylistic group, according to a solitary and free approach ". (Excerpts from Camille Morando, Soulages , Paris, Center Pompidou editions, 2015)
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, June 15-November 25, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136).