François Morellet
Work
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Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
Réinstallations, 2011 • installation view Centre Pompidou Paris, France -
L'esprit d'escalier, 2010 • installation view Musée du Louvre, Paris, France -
L'esprit d'escalier, 2010 • installation view Musée du Louvre, Paris, France -
Lamentable Ø 820 cm blanc, 2006 • 8 fluorescent tubed white, dimensions variable
News

OTHER EYES, FROM APOLLINAIRE TO TODAY
Sep 22, 2018 – Mar 24, 2019
For this exhibition to be presented at three consecutive sites – the LAAC in Dunkirk, the Saint-Roch Museum in Issoudun and finally the Sainte-Croix Abbey Museum in Les Sables-d’Olonne – Daniel Abadie has chosen nearly 150 rarely or never before exhibited works that offer a new perspective on the past century’s artistic movements and their often-surprising inter-relations, while also echoing and shedding light on the LAAC collection.
This project was inspired by Daniel Abadie’s shock discovery in 1991 at the Albright-Knox Museum of Buffalo (New York), when confronted with the juxtaposition of three fundamentally different paintings dating from 1913, by the artists Vassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay. He suddenly understood that what links the painters of any given generation is the lesson drawn from their predecessors, with each artist answering in his or her own manner the questions raised by the previous generation. This new approach to 20th-century painting differs from the established practice of observing multiple incompatible movements in a state of cohabitation.
Indeed, the exhibition underlines this fascinating paradox. “Other eyes, from Apollinaire to today” begins following the Second World War, in resonance with the LAAC collection and evoking the artistic explorations of the early 20th century.
The exhibition shows how successive approaches form unexpected ensembles, when one looks beyond their apparent contradictions. It links the questions raised with the proffered solutions, thereby offering a new view of this so-close century. And it reveals the extent to which each generation – within a context of uncertainties, debates and contradictions – reacts, echoes, resists or pursues the research and searchings of its predecessors.


Art 32 Basel Unlimited
Jun 13 – Jun 18, 2001
Gallery Exhibitions
Tango Them Basel
Jun 11 – Jul 23, 2016
La Confusion des Genres
Nov 28, 2015 – Jan 9, 2016
More Morellet at Mark Müller
Jun 13 – Jul 25, 2015
Group Show (Adieu Gessnerallee!)
Jan 15 – Mar 12, 2011
Jun 12 – Jul 17, 2010
Accrochage
Oct 24 – Dec 19, 2009
Room 3
double trouble
Jun 2 – Jul 14, 2007
Zeichnungen
Apr 20 – May 24, 2002
Room 3
Lunatiques, πrococos, πpuissants, πcycles
Apr 17 – May 29, 1999
Neonly
Jan 13 – Feb 24, 1996
Nov 23, 1991 – Jan 11, 1992