Galerie Templon has entrusted Communic'Art with the creation and production of the catalogue of its first Georges Mathieu exhibition.

The previously unseen collection of work by the master of Lyrical Abstraction presented in September 2018 brings together 28 paintings from the years 1969 to 1975.

With texts by Edouard Lombard (President of the Georges Mathieu committee) and the critical contribution of American art-historian AnnMarie Perl (Princeton) the book that contains 72 pages offers a new and international vision of complex works by one of the most well-known French artists in the world.

By opening the way to Lyrical Abstraction and emphasising movement and emotion, the sign as a metaphorical image, Georges Mathieu - theoretician and artist - liberated the painter’s gesture, prefiguring ‘Action painting’ and ‘Happenings’.

He was also close to the Eastern world through the calligraphic nature of his work and his relationship to Zen; but also his role as a popular artist able to spread his style of contemporary art in the applied arts.