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Browse through François Rouan's new catalog, published for his exhibition at Templon New York.
“Recorda” is published on the occasion of the braided artist's first exhibition at Templon's New York space. Featuring some thirty works from 1969 to 2024, this exhibition has retrospective value. The catalog includes the eponymous series of 14 previously unseen paintings, as well as woven canvases and emblematic photographic works by François Rouan.
Alfred Pacquement, Honorary Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, and curator of the exhibition, writes the introductory text. He is accompanied by analyses by Laurent Sibony, mathematician, philosopher and psychoanalyst, and Sarah Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Courtauld, University of London, who knows François Rouan's work inside out.
From the outset, François Rouan was associated with the Supports/Surfaces movement, but was not affiliated to it. Deconstructing the traditional structure of the painting, he pioneered new directions in contemporary French painting. First, Rouan works with shreds of canvas dyed in an explosive palette, from chick yellow to brick red, cobalt blue and charcoal black.
Carefully woven into the painting, he then dares to lacerate, interweave, reconsider, complete or even disintegrate the surface, only to start all over again. Behind the apparent simplicity of his motifs and colors lie some of the artist's obsessive metaphysical questions, such as painting as a work of art, the origin of the world, the image of the body and human existence.
Born in Montpellier in 1943, François Rouan has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives, notably at the Centre Pompidou in 1975, 1983 and 1994, at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Villeneuve-d'Ascq in 1995, at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse (2006) and at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier (2017). He has been exhibited worldwide, including at the StadtischeKunsthalle in Düsseldorf (1979), the Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (1997), the Beijing Institute of Fine Arts (2000), and at the Centre Pompidou-Metz as part of the group show “Lacan, l'exposition” until May 27, 2024. In 2025, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon will devote a retrospective exhibition to him.
His work is presented in prestigious collections such as the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, and MoMA, New York, USA.
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