Claude Viallat
PATTERN, CRIME & DECORATION – GROUP SHOW

LE CONSORTIUM, DIJON, FRANCEFrom 16/05/2019 to 20/10/2019 

Le Consortium examines in this large group exhibition the “Pattern & Decoration” movement, formed in the 1970s and that enjoyed international success in the 1980s. Most of the artists involved were reacting against the dominance of abstract schools in the Post-War era, with a particular opposition to Minimal and Conceptual art. The group organized around “pattern and decoration” reconnected with what was widely perceived as “minor” art forms and asserted decoration as the true repressed of modernity.  The exhibition, co-organized with MAMCO in Geneva, also includes several pieces by artists associated with the Supports/Surfaces group: Noël Dolla and Claude Viallat.  

Claude Viallat
GIGANTISME – ARTS & INDUSTRIE – GROUP SHOW

FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS DE FRANCE, DUNKERQUE, FRANCEFrom 4/05/2019 to 5/01/2020 

GIGANTISM – ART & INDUSTRIE is an original collective initiative on the territory of Hauts-de-France, in Dunkerque: the creation of a new triennial art and design in Europe.
 
From May 4, 2019, an exhibition of off-scale installations created for the occasion, of in situ works, sculptures, paintings, films and performances will embody encounters between artists, engineers, designers and architects. It will unfold on different exhibition venues and urban and port sites. An original journey that rethinks at the level of the landscape of Dunkerque a history of European modernity from 1947 to the present day; between living heritage and contemporary creation.

Claude Viallat
COLLECTION. LA COMPOSANTE PEINTURES – GROUP SHOW

FRAC BRETAGNE, RENNES, FRANCEFrom 30/03/2019 to 26/05/2019

From a selection of paintings from the Frac Bretagne collection, the exhibition creates five connections with no other ambition than to interpret a posteriori and to show the reasons why these works were chosen to appear in one of the important ensembles of the Frac Bretagne.  

Daniel Dezeuze
Claude Viallat
UNFURLED: SUPPORTS/SURFACES 1966-1976 – GROUP SHOW

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT, DETROIT, USAFrom 01/02/2019 to 21/04/2019

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will present the first exhibition in the Midwest and most comprehensive show to date of the French art movement Supports/Surfaces. This group of fourteen artists, along with several others who were closely affiliated, lived and worked in the south of France, producing artwork marked by an interest in materiality, a lyrical use of color and expansive ideas of what constitutes a painting. French society was undergoing social protests and upheavals in the 1960s that mirrored the civil rights and anti-war movements in the USA. The Supports/Surfaces artists sought new forms and methods to reflect their times: standard art materials were dropped in favor of homespun non-art materials (bed sheets, rope, dish rags) and figuration was replaced by loose, permeable grids that hinted at a more democratic method of art-making and a proposal for humane society. Curated by Wallace Whitney

Claude Viallat
VINGT-QUATRE HEURES DE LA VIE D’UNE FEMME – GROUP SHOW

MAMC, SAINT ETIENNE, FRANCE From 01/01/2019 to 22/09/2019

250 works novelize the intimate and the universal. The exhibition Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme (twenty-four hours of a woman’s life) tells the story of an imaginary and multiple day. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and objects of design illustrate this fiction of everyday life, from awakening to dreaming. The works are presented differently, in a spirit closer to everyone’s everyday life, reconnecting art to the present. It’s about telling another history of art: a history of emotions and life.

Claude Viallat
DANS LE SECRET DES OEUVRES D’ART – GROUP SHOW

MUSEE FABRE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 24/03/2018 to 02/09/2018

Daniel Dezeuze
Claude Viallat
SUPPORTS/SURFACES, LES ORIGINES – GROUP SHOW

CARRE D’ART DE NIMES, FRANCEFrom 13/10/2017 to 31/12/2017

The exhibition Supports/Surfaces: the Beginning, 1966–1970 shows which process took over the course of the 1960s up to the creation of the group. In order to gain an understanding of the short-lived but important Supports/Surfaces movement, one must plunge oneself into the years of research, confrontations and oppositions that led up to it. These four years were a time of intense and wonderful artistic effervescence in the midst of a period marked by the social and political upheavals of the events of May 1968. An examination of this history from its origins enables us to gain a new perspective on the movement by focusing on these years marked by the jubilation of artists in the midst of reinventing their work from the ground up. The exhibition brings together major works of this period, some which have not been shown since that time, and provides insight into the profound questioning that lay behind the creations over the course of these key years: the deconstruction of painting, confrontation with Nouveau Réalisme (“New Realism”) and the certain death of painting, external exhibition, the placement of works in space, the importance of the object and its manipulation.
With Avec André-Pierre Arnal, Vincent Bioulès, Louis Cane, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, Toni Grand, Bernard Pagès, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, André Valensi et Claude Viallat.

Daniel Dezeuze
Claude Viallat
« THE SURFACE OF THE EAST COAST. FROM NICE TO NEW YORK »GROUPSHOW

LE 109, NICE, FRANCEFrom 6/23/2017 to 10/15/2017

‘The Surface of the East Coast. From Nice to New York’ will be gathering more than 70 works of artists from the Supports/Surfaces movement and from the New York new art scene, aiming to establish a dialogue between two different countries and generations,by showing how they can echo,feed on each other,and today tackle new formal issues and trains of thought. Curator : Marie Maertens With Justin Adian – André-Pierre Arnal – Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke – Vincent Bioulès – Anna Betbeze – Joe Bradley – Sarah Braman – Pierre Buraglio – Louis Cane – Marc Devade – Daniel Dezeuze – Noël Dolla – Adam Henry – Jacob Kassay – Lucas Knipscher – Erik Lindman – Landon Metz – Sam Moyer – Bernard Pagès – Jean-Pierre Pincemin – Patrick Saytour – Gedi Sibony – André Valensi – Claude Viallat.  A bilingual catalogue will be published by Editions cercle d’art on the occasion of the show.