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Communic'Art has created a catalog for the exhibition of Degottex at gallerie Di Meo
Galerie Di Meo has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation of a catalogue for Jean Degottex exhibition held from February 12th until April 3rd, 2010.
The opening will take place on Thursday,the 11th of February 2010 from 18h.
Jean Degottex was born in 1918 in Ain Sathonay. As twenty-one years, during a trip to Algeria and Tunisia, he begins to paint. In the immediate post-war, described the practiceof self heir of Kandinsky, lyrical abstraction movement.
He received the prize in 1951 Kandinsky and participates in the creation of the Fair in October, which defends the lyrical abstraction. In the 1970s, the painter confuses respect and support, and deletes made any concept of representation. The work is the painting itself, not what it supports.
All 15 works on display, mostly monochrome black and white, is representative of the technical report used by the artist, with three types of reports: the paper strips, the reports-and oblique lines-reports-black . This technique is detailed in a text of great poetry by Maurice Benhamou, the specialist must work Degottex.
About the painting “levitation” Benhamou says: “The lines have been stamped no removal of pigment. Black on black, they are barely visible. They guess rather they see themselves. The eye in start reading from the extreme left, scans, wondered for a moment if he does not produce itself. “
Jean Degottex 1976-1978 will be held from February 12th until April 3rd, 2010. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 11th starting at 6 pm.
