Three major exhibitions are presented at Galerie Jeanne Bucher – Jaeger Bucher.

10 major works of the artist Paul Rebeyrolle

At Galerie Jaeger Bucher - rue de Seine, 1st October to 13th November 2010

Essays of historic importance on Paul Rebeyrolle provided significant leads into the artist’s constantly changing work.

His curiosity and insatiable appetite for experimenting with the reality of matter, or rather materials that mobilize the present, led him to extreme treatments of surface and depth, yet he never lost sight of compositional unity and the control of light:

his style is effective, untrammelled by elegance in its urge to violate easy consciences.

The exhibition centres on the monumental “Chien Blanc” (White Dog), its sumptuous wealth of forms, images and tonalities, for the ears as much as for the eyes, the heart as well as the mind, in its magical intensity, instating a principal dialogue with the complex landscape titled “La Barrière” (The Barrier)—a grandiose, powerful celebration of nature in its raw state.

The dialogue continues with compositions focusing on the body, whether human or animal, their supreme sensuality intensified by the use of barbaric materials; neither is any peace found by tickling “La Grande Truite” (The Big Trout). The sculpture “Le Sanglier” (The Wild Boar) is at the centre of these vigorous exchanges: a wild beast concentrated in its fate as an unsuitable star.

Pat Steir at Galerie Jaeger Bucher,

rue de Saintonge,

9th October 2010 to 8th January 2011

Since her first exhibition at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York in 1964, Pat Steir has created a large body of works based on the ‘waterfall’ painting technique she devised in the early 1980s with “Waterfall Painted with the Chinese in Mind”.

Over time she has refined her technique in the extreme, her virtuosity remaining unparalleled today. Pat Steir’s great art lies in the delicate interaction between the forces of gravity and the properties inherent in paint. The precarious equilibrium of the fragile oscillations depends on the quantity, consistency and substance of paint, thus determining its flow and plasticity.

The artist has exhibited her work widely, most recently in the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, (architect : Zaha Hadid, 2010), the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany (2006), the Whitney Museum, New York (2004) and the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2003); she also figures in many acclaimed public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Tate Gallery in London.

For this exhibition, the gallery will publish a bilingual catalogue with colour reproductions and an essay by Doris van Drathen, art historian and critic.

For the FIAC (21th – 24th october), booth C39 – C41,

the Galerie Jeanne Bucher – Jaeger Bucher

Mark Tobey’s tribute

For the 2010 edition of the FIAC, the Galerie Jaeger Bucher – Jeanne Bucher will present significant selected works by American artist Mark Tobey (1890-1976) to celebrate the 120th anniversary of his birth. Mark Tobey joined the gallery in 1944, exhibiting on many occasions until his death in 1976.

Mark Tobey is a world renowned pioneer of American Abstraction; his work eludes all categorisation but rather seeks keys and signs in painting that both represent and signify. He endeavoured to reveal the profound structure in things. He was aware of art’s mystical worth, projecting an active space—a space in which pigments and variations in colour made up of marks or transported by fine lines interpenetrate and fuse forming an intensely vibrating visual energy. As John Cage wrote: “His paintings exist to introduce us daily to an appreciation of the world we live in”.

Alongside the homage paid to Mark Tobey’s immense talent, an open dialogue will engage with works by other artists from the gallery whether figures from the past who knew him well (de Staël, Bissière, Vieira da Silva, Dubuffet…) or other more contemporary figures who today bear witness to their profound respect for his work (Yang Jiechang, Fabienne Verdier, Hanns Schimansky, Pat Steir…). Together they will show the strength of his vision dating back more than 50 years.

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5 & 7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : + 33 1 42 72 60 42 – www.galeriejaegerbucher.com

Galerie Jeanne Bucher – 53, rue de Seine – 75006 Paris – Tél : + 33 1 44 41 69 65 –www.jeanne-bucher.com