Eight artists around Jazz1 by Henri Matisse: Etel Adnan, Agnès Thurnauer, Pierre Charpin, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Isabelle Ferreira, Claire Trotignon, Alexandre Benjamin Navet, Tania Mouraud.
Group exhibition.2
Matisse’s Jazz sets the tempo for this selection of works, which all revolve around cut-out color, the color that gives rhythm to and constructs space, whether on the page or in a volume.
Coming from different worlds, fashion, design or the visual arts, each plays his part according to his affinity with Matisse, a filiation that blossoms into so many distinct but not totally unrelated expressions.
The surprise comes from the discovery that everyone, at some point, has thought of Matisse, of that liberating yet simple gesture of cutting color and drawing.3
- In 1947, Henri Matisse published an album of twenty colored plates with handwritten ink aphorisms, considered one of the pinnacles of twentieth-century artist’s books. ↩︎
- Commissariat Claudine Grammont ↩︎
- Location : Drawing Lab, 17 rue de Richelieu, 75001 Paris ↩︎
