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André-Pierre Arnal (1939–2024) ‘Pliage losange’ 1970 Charcoa…
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André-Pierre Arnal (1939–2024) ‘Pliage losange’ 1970 Charcoa…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
André-Pierre Arnal (1939–2024) ‘Pliage losange’ 1970 Charcoal on folded paper, signed and dated on the reverse 50 x 50 cm Born in 1939 in Nîmes, André-Pierre Arnal, alongside Claude Viallat, Noël Dolla, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Louis Cane, Bernard Pagès and others, played a founding role in the Supports/Surfaces movement. In their 1969 manifesto exhibition ‘La Peinture en question’, they declared: “Painting is a fact in itself, and it is within its own realm that we must pose the questions. This is neither a return to the roots nor a search for an original purity, but simply the laying bare of the pictorial elements that constitute the pictorial fact. Hence the neutrality of the works on display, their lack of lyricism and expressive depth.”
To reveal the support, André-Pierre Arnal chooses the technique of folding (echoing Simon Hantaï’s origami): he then applies the colours, which themselves form the patterns on the canvas—his way of returning to the primitive gesture, of going ‘upstream of the creative process’.
Similar explorations of the relationship between the artwork and the creative process emerged in Japan in the late 1950s (the Gutai movement), in the 1960s with American Minimal Art, and in Italian Arte Povera. Here we present two historic works by André-Pierre Arnal, characteristic of the research he undertook during those decisive years: an oil and ink on paper from 1965 in which he explores the notion of traces, and a famous and significant folded work from 1972!
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