Jean Dubuffet: Mêle moments, 1976
Acrylic and collage on paper mounted on canvas
Private Collection, Photograph courtesy Pace Gallery
© 2015, ProLitteris, Zurich
Jean Dubuffet: ‘Metamorphoses’ at Fondation Beyeler The exhibition “Jean Dubuffet – Metamorphoses of Landscape”, on view from 31 January to 8 May 2016, features around 100 works by the French painter and sculptor.]]>
Source: Fondation Beyeler
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) is one of the defining artists of the second half of the 20th century. Stimulated by the work of artists on the margins of the cultural scene, Dubuffet succeeded in liberating himself from traditions and in reinventing art. Dubuffet’s influence can still be felt today in contemporary art and street art, for example in the work of David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
In the first large-scale Jean Dubuffet retrospective in Switzerland this century, the Fondation Beyeler presents the artist’s richly faceted, complex and multilayered oeuvre on the basis of some 100 works. The exhibition focuses on Dubuffet’s fascinating idea of landscape, which in his hands can transform itself into a body, a face or an object. The artist experimented in his works with new techniques and materials, such as sand, butterfly wings, sponges and slag, thereby creating a wholly individual and unique visual universe.
Alongside important paintings and sculptures from all the major phases of the artist’s oeuvre, the exhibition is also showing Dubuffet’s spectacular “Coucou Bazar”, a multimedia work of art combining painting, sculpture, theatre, dance and music.
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