For its twelfth participation in BRAFA, the A&R Fleury gallery unveils a set of paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the 20th century, rigorously selected for this event.
A first space is devoted to post-war art and brings together works by Karel Appel, Sam Francis, Hans Hartung, Alicia Penalba, Serge Poliakoff, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva. The visitor is welcomed by Opt for the Spirit, acrylic on kraft paper mounted on canvas, created by Pierre Alechinsky in 1966. Drawing his inspiration from Nordic stories, the artist plunges us into a truly distressing “extraordinary” world where the spectator is invited to a sort of wild celebration of shapes and colors. Hans Hartung, who is enjoying a major retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2019, is present through a body of work from the 1940s to 1980s, including an exceptional oil on canvas T1952-34 from 1952 including the spontaneous gesture prefigures lyrical abstraction.