On view at Galerie Di Meo from April 27 to May 27, 2006 is an exhibition of thirty one drawings made in red and black ink in the 1940s by Jean Fautrier. Visual incarnations of the female body, the drawings reveal a sensual interior world and have illustrated numerous books by Georges Bataille and the poet Robert Ganzo.

The catalogue, created and published by Communic’Art, gathers an extract from “l’Alleluiah, catéchisme de Dianus” by Georges Bataille.

The delicacy and visual richness of the catalogue is enhanced by two additional texts:

an introduction by Castor Seibel, renowned art critic and a specialist of Jean Fautrier’s work, and a presentation of the exhibition by the gallery owner, Nello Di Meo.

Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898 and died in Châtenay-Malabry in 1964. His work was unknown in France for a long time, except within the artistic field, but he was then widely celebrated and many books were published on his work.

Pierre Restany, for example, wrote many articles and conducted many interviews with the artist; he considered him as the master of the informal.

This catalogue is distributed by our partner PARIS MUSÉES in 300 bookstores in France, including 50 specialized with an Art section. The catalogue will be listed in over forty (40) professional databases, including Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom as well as in online bookstores.

The catalogue will also be distributed in Europe, North America, Canada and Eastern Europe.