Bernard Buffet, Table et Chaise, 1950
‘The Tightrope Walker’ at Timothy Taylor Gallery Bernard Buffet, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, Georges Jouve, Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouve, Germaine Richier… Borrowing its title from an essay by Jean Genet, The Tightrope Walker will explore the interface between fine art practice
14 July – 4 September 2010
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July 11, 2010 – Source: Timothy Taylor Gallery
This exhibition represents a very rare meeting of art and design in agallery context. It will explore how artists and designers soughtsimplicity and honesty amidst a growing appreciation of the ordinary andthe everyday during this key transitional period in European history.
From 1945, artists and designers needed a way to renew art and culturehaving emerged into a blasted and impoverished landscape, haunted byhorrific imagery of death and destruction on an unimaginable scale.Post-occupation Paris was Europe’s primary artistic and intellectual hub,packed with a rich mix of artists, designers, philosophers and poets.Artists and designers wanted to work both with and beyond the scarringeffects of the recent past – they valued utility and practicality andcelebrated the mundane and the everyday. Developing new forms of realism,they created interior and private worlds, and found inspiration inuncontaminated natural and primitive forms.
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