- Title: Jean Dubuffet's 'Art Brut' featured at NYC Pace Gallery exhibition
- Date: 21st March 2025
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 20, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY AT THE PACE GALLERY’S EXHIBITION OF FRENCH ARTIST JEAN DUBUFFET’S HOURLOUP CYCLE (SOUNDBITE) (English) PACE GALLERY, FOUNDER, ARNE GLIMCHER, SAYING: “At a time in history when we're involved in such chaos, we have an artist who was always interested in the idea that the
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- Keywords: Art Brut European Jean Dubuffet Pace gallery artist painter post-war
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,North America
- Reuters ID: LVA001945817032025RP1
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- Story Text: A major exhibition of the post-war French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet is now on display at New York City's Pace Gallery.
The colorful show features paintings, sculptures and architectural installations from Dubuffet’s Hourloupe cycle, which he created during the period 1962 to 1974.
Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher told Reuters in an interview on Thursday (March 20) that Dubuffet’s work speaks to the present day.
“At a time in history when we're involved in such chaos, we have an artist who was always interested in the idea that there is no hierarchy, that every painting, every object that he paints, has its own identity and nothing is more important than anything else.”
The Pace gallery has represented Dubuffet since 1967 and was the first American gallery to exhibit sculptures from Hourloupe in its inaugural exhibition of the artist’s work in 1968.
“Dubuffet is one of the foundations of this gallery,” Glimcher said. “He came very early when my gallery was little and I didn't deserve him, and it was also a kind of perversity. He could have gone to any of the big galleries, and he chose this little gallery that didn't have, that just had Nevelson [sculptor Louise Nevelson] but had all young artists. And it was a great honor, and one of the great memories of my life.”
The Hourloupe cycle exhibition coincides with the 65th anniversary of the Pace Gallery and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Foundation Dubuffet last year.
The show includes works from private and public collections, notably a 26-foot-long painting – "Nunc Stans" – that is being loaned from the Guggenheim for the very first time.
Dubuffet, who coined the term '"Art Brut", was known as an innovator who challenged convention, questioning prevailing notions of beauty and good taste. For inspiration, he looked to the margins of society – to the art of outsiders, mediums, the incarcerated and the institutionalized.
“This is one of the most influential artists because he gives permission to younger artists to conceive of the different kind of art that is clumsy and awkward and has all of the qualities that we dismiss as unacceptable, and Dubuffet changes the history of art in that way,” Glimcher said.
The Pace Gallery exhibition runs through April 26.
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