The Musée d'Art Moderne Hosts Major Marc Desgrandchamps Retrospective

Written by Jerónimo Enbétontête Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:52

Paris.- The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris is devoting a solo exhibition to Marc Desgrandchamps, contemporary French painter from May 13th until September 4th. Consisting of forty large paintings and a large selection of works on paper (watercolors, drawings, collages, lithographs and wash), the exhibition traces the artist's works from 1987 until the present day and will be the largest retrospective of the artists work yet held. This retrospective is an opportunity to discover many new and paintings showcase works already present in many public and private collections. Easily recognizable by his evanescent figures, broken objects and undefined space, Desgrandchamps's work is primarily a visual experience. Despite their architectural compositions, the artist's paintings are comprise layers of differing opacity. Fluid colors that appear to be almost liquid and blurred contours combine to give forms an unlikely materiality. The figurative elements seem more juxtaposed than in communication with each other, as if suspended in the pictorial space. They establish doubt and questions in the viewer's mind, rather than provide any certainty.

Born in 1960 in Sallanches, Marc Desgrandchamps lives and works in Lyon. Trained in fine arts at Aix-en-Provence and Paris, the artist was showcased for the first time in 1987 at the Centre Pompidou in paris. Desgrandchamps is represented in France by the Paris Gallery Zürcher. Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes narrative, his works blend body and evanescent landscapes, past and suspended time. They question what the artist describes as 'probably the figure, the presence of doubt, doubt of painting', as they explore the effects of transparency, opacity, and overlay. They are anchored in movie, graphics, photographic, literary or musical work sources, these blurry images alternate dark and nebulous, in an enigmatic atmosphere. Since 2004, he has had solo shows at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, the Musée d’art contemporain in Lyon, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Germany, the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2006). In 2007, his work was shown in New York and at the Creux de l’Enfer art centre in France.



The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris is located in the eastern wing of the Palais de Tokyo (constructed for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937). the museum itself was inaugurated in 1961. The museum collections include over 8000 works illustrating various trends of the art of the 20th century. Exhibitions on the major movements and artists highlights from the European scene of the 20th century, but also monographic and thematic exhibitions present the main trends of today's art. Temporary exhibitions run every six weeks. The museum collections include, among others, works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Francis Picabia, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Kees van Dongen, Pierre Bonnard, Chaïm Soutine, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, František Kupka, Juan Gris, Hans Bellmer, Jean Fautrier, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages. Visit the museum's website at ... http://mam.paris.fr

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