A founding member of the Supports/Surfaces group in the early seventies, Daniel Dezeuze has for the past forty years questioned painting, gallery settings and space. Working in a wide range of techniques, Dezeuze’s work offers a new reading of American art; abstract and minimalist, yet always involving experiments with materials considered “poor”: mesh, lattices, wood, fabric, metal, etc. His latest show explores our relationship with the worlds of knights and warfare, priests and the sacred, peasants and production.

The main room at the gallery is hung with a series of paintings whose formats copy shields, coat of arms and bows. Alongside are wooden mesh and lattices suggestive of a life of rurality. Further away is an arrangement of boxes and drawings against a black background, evocative of an ancient (Gnostic) religion. Daniel Dezeuze’s works explore ideas of forms, be they pictures or sculptures. Here, he revisits a forgotten genre, the History Painting, revitalizing it by avoiding anecdotes and a documentary slant in favour of a poetical evocation.