Daniel Dezeuze
The artist
Born in 1942 in Alès, France, Daniel Dezeuze was one of the founding members of the Supports/Surfaces group in the 1970s. His work seeks to explore and question the concepts that underpin painting, galleries and space. The artist appropriates a wide variety of techniques, offering a reinterpretation of American art, both abstract and minimalist, while constantly experimenting with what are seen as basic materials: net, metal gauze, wood, fabric and metal.
Exhibitions
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Mayas
June 20 - July 20, 2024
Brussels -
Mesoamerica, Cités perdues et Derniers refuges
March 2 - April 27, 2024
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Screens/Paintings: Variations
November 6 – December 31, 2021
Paris - Beaubourg -
Sous un certain angle
January 12 - March 9, 2019
Paris - Beaubourg -
Quand le carré devient cercle
March 9 - April 15, 2017
Brussels -
Tableaux-valises et dessins
January 9 - February 20, 2016
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Battements, chemins
September 6 - October 25, 2014
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Chevaliers, prêtres, paysans
March 13 - April 24, 2010
Paris - Beaubourg -
Peintures qui perlent
January 12 > February 26, 2008
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Pavillon, nefs et peintures furtives
March 9 > April 10, 2002
Paris - Beaubourg -
Oeuvres récentes
May 19 - July 17, 1999
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1942 in Alès, France |
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| Residence | Lives and works in Sète, France |
| Education | École des Beaux-Arts of Montpellier, France Doctorat in Comparative Literature, Université La Sorbonne, Paris, France |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Mesoamerica, Cités Perdues et Derniers Refuges, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
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| 2022 | Étais pour un bel été, V.R.A.C. Vitrine Régionale d’Art Contemporain, Millau, France |
| 2021 | Écrans/Tableaux : Variations, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Sous un certain angle, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Quand le carré devient cercle, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium Une rétrospective, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France |
| 2016 | Le prieuré de Serrabona, Boule d’Amont, France Tableaux-valises et dessins, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Daniel Dezeuze, Drawing Room 015, FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France Painting Before, After with Aaron Bobrow, Galerie Paul Rodgers, New York, USA |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Less is More, Frac Sud, Marseille, France |
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| 2023 | La mélodie des choses - Regards sur la collection, Carré d’Art de Nîmes, France Quinquagesimum, Fondation CAB, Brusels, Belgium PARADE : la collection et ses invités, MAC, Marseille, France L’oeil vérité, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Libres!, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France Une histoire intime de l’art, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France |
| 2021 | SOL ! La biennale du territoire #1 Un pas de côté, MO.CO., Montpellier contemporain, Montpellier, France La beauté en partage - 15 ans d’acquisitions au musée Fabre, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France |
| 2020 | Vu.e de dos – Images à contre-courant, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium Recyclage/Surcyclage, Fondation Villa Datris, L´Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France Plan A, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France |
| 2019 | Un autre oeil d'Apollinaire à aujourd'hui, Musée de l'hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun ; Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix (MASC), Les Sables d'Olonne, France Inciser le temps, Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, curated by Alexandra Fau, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Unfurled : Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, MOCAD, Detroit, USA Supports/Surfaces, Tsinghua Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Pariétal, Grotte de Lascaux, curated by Olivier Kaeppelin, Lascaux, France |
| 2017 | The Surface of the East Coast, From Nice to New York, Le 109, Nice, France Supports/Surfaces, Cherry & Martin gallery, Los Angeles, USA Support/Surfaces : Les origines 1966-1970, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France | |
| Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France | |
| Carré d’art, Nîmes, France | |
| Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France | |
| CAPC, Musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, France | |
| Musée d’Art contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
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Press Release
Connaissance des Arts - décembre 2021
Dezeuze, écran total
La Gazette Drouot - novembre 2021
Daniel Dezeuze, l'éternelle question du tableau
Virginie Chuimer-Layen
France Culture - novembre 2021
"Les écrans ne sont pas menaçants, c'est leur omniprésence qui inquiète"
Arnaud Laporte
Midi libre - novembre 2021
A Paris, le Sétois Daniel Dezeuze crée des oeuvres calligraphiques avec de vieux skis
Art Libre (La libre Belgique) - mars 2017
Libérer, réarticuler et régénérer la peinture
Claude Lorent
Imago.Blog (Le Monde.fr) - janvier 2016
Daniel Dezeuze: qu'est-ce qu'un tableau?
Journal des Arts - janvier 2016
Daniel Dezeuze, "La question de l'air et de l'évidement me passionne"
Frédéric Bonnet
Art Press - décembre 2014
Daniel Dezeuze
Télérama - septembre 2014
Battements, chemins
Paris Capitale - septembre 2014
Daniel Dezeuze
News
Daniel Dezeuze
VUE DE DOS, IMAGES À CONTRE-COURANT – GROUP EXHIBITION
From September 26 to January 3, 2021
Le Delta, Avenue Fernand Golenvaux, 18 - 5000 Namur, Belgium
This exhibition seeks to question the subversive power of anonymity implied by the principle of “anti-portrait” embodied by the representation of someone from behind, “vue de dos”. The exhibition organized by the Namur cultural space, the Delta, takes a look at current phenomena such as “selfies” on social networks, facial recognition on surveillance devices, as well as the very recent wearing of a sanitary mask, that has redefined our perception of public spaces.
Claude Viallat
Daniel Dezeuze
MOUVEMENT SUPPORTS/SURFACES : RETROUVER L’éCONOMIE DES GESTES SIMPLES – GROUP SHOW
FESTIVAL CROISEMENT, BEIJING, CHINA From 21/05/2019 to 20/08/2019
As part of the Croisements 2019 Festival organized by the French Institute in Beijing, the Meymac Center for Contemporary Art presents the first exhibition of the Supports / Surfaces movement in China. This group of artists, who emerged in France in the mid-1960s, revolutionized the visual arts through a new use of materials. Their project: to free the pictorial art from the historical and cultural straitjacket represented by the canvas.
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
Daniel Dezeuze
DANIEL DEZEUZE, UNE RéTROSPECTIVE – SOLO SHOW
MUSEE DE GRENOBLE, FRANCEFrom 28/10/2017 to 28/01/2018
From October 28, 2017 to January 28, 2018, the museum of Grenoble will devote a retrospective to Daniel Dezeuze’s work. Organized in collaboration with the artist, it will present more than 50 years of creation, from his early works of the middle of the sixties to his most recent sculptures, showing the artworks that participated to the Supports/Surfaces movement.
Founding member of Supports/Surfaces in 1970, Daniel Dezeuze and his group questions the painting’s future and its role in the capitalist society.
Thanks to a SHARP selection of artworks showing the main steps of Daniel Dezeuze’s work, this retrospective presents the complexity and the consistency of his art OVER more than five decades. It will highlight (SANS S° its importance in the FRENCH context OF VISUAL ART and also art’s capacity of moving and expanding our world’s comprehension.
Curators : Guy Tosatto, director of the Musée de Grenoble and Sophie Bernard, curator in charge of Modern and Contemporary art collections
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
DANIEL DEZEUZE/ALBERT MARQUET. MISE EN REGARD – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BORDEAUX, FRANCEFrom 28/09/2017 to 07/01/18
As part of the season « Paysage Bordeaux 2017 », the musée des Beaux-Arts organizes temporary exhibitions to reveal the interest of its collections. This third exhibition is confronting Albert Marquet’s fragile works on paper to Supports/Surfaces French pionneer Daniel Dezeuze’s drawings never shown until now.
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.
Daniel Dezeuze
LE PRIEURé DE SERRABONA à BOULE D’AMONT
BOULE D'AMONT (30km from Perpignan), FRANCEFrom 06/18/2016 to 09/18/2016
Within the framework of the IN SITU show, bringing together landmarks and contemporary art, in the French region Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Daniel Dezeuze presents in the church of Boule d’Amont his grid works nefs (2010, 2011).
Set on the ground, alone or within an ensemble, the volume of these grids inhibites the space based on the concept of cutting outs and empty forms. The architectural reference in the grids seems to reflect the structure of the church.
