Ernest Pignon-Ernest
20 May - 13 June 2020
David Hockney
David Hockney has been practicing the art of the portrait and the self-portrait for more than 60 years. Under the title, Drawing from Life, the National Portrait Gallery in London recently brought together a wide selection of portraits of five of his favourite subjects produced over these six decades: the artist himself, his mother and three of his closest friends, Celia Birtwell who was already a luminous presence in the famous painting entitled Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy; Maurice Payne, his printing assistant with an aquiline profile; and Gregory Evans who was held in high esteem by the artist as each of the portraits drawn of him shows.
30 April - 27 May 2020
Karel Appel / Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky and Karel Appel have known each other since 1949 and their CoBrA years. The artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam enjoyed the emulation of works produced in collaboration, often combining poems, drawings and paintings. Appel and Alechinsky had each notably worked with Christian Dotremont, but it wasn’t until 1976 that they found themselves together in Pierre Alechinsky’s studio in Bougival, outskirts of Paris to embark on a series of ink works with two brushes.
12 March - 30 May 2020
Antoni Tàpies
At 38 avenue Matignon - Renowned worldwide from the end of the 1950s for his substantial paintings, often in monochrome, Tàpies (1923-2012) was incorrectly seen at the beginning of his career as a purely abstract painter. In fact, he never ceased to observe reality and attempt to render it in an unfettered way.
12 March - 30 May 2020
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (San Francisco, 1939) is one of the great contemporary sculptors, whose determination to build a substantial, rigorous (always black) and innovative body of engraved work is particularly remarkable. Having explored the resources of lithography then screen-printing in the 1970s and 1980s, for the last 30 years he has focused on etchings in small, medium and then especially in very large format.
12 March - 24 July 2020
