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In 1960, Hantaï made a break with form, beginning his first pliage paintings, which would provide the critical basis of his work until his death. The technique of folding, knotting, painting, and unfolding the canvas, allowed Hantaï to develop an ‘automatic’ process, producing paintings that juxtaposed the naked material against bright colours, to create striking, sumptuous images.
Since the 1990s, a number of collections of his work have been assembled that incorporate examples from each of his key series. The most well-known of these collections was gifted by Hantaï to the Centre Pompidou in 2003. A second collection, acquired privately in the early 1980s, has since remained in storage, with only one of the fifteen works exhibited in the artist’s lifetime.
Timothy Taylor is honoured to bring this remarkable collection to public attention through these exhibitions and a fully illustrated catalogue, featuring newly commissioned texts by Jason Farago and Dr. Anna Lovatt. |