The roots of the strong link between Jean Dubuffet and Venice lie in the past. It is no accident that the city has hosted two famous exhibitions that marked crucial stages in the artist\u2019s career: one held in Palazzo Grassi in 1964 and another in the French pavilion at the 1984 Biennale. In both cases, the artist himself chose the setting in which he wanted his latest work to be shown for the very first time.<\/p>\n
This elegant book, published to coincide with the exhibition of the same title being held in Palazzo Franchetti, a splendid fifteenth-century palazzo directly overlooking the Grand Canal, is the result of an invaluable and fruitful collaboration between the Dubuffet Foundation and ACP, the company that runs the exhibition site.<\/p>\n
The exhibition covers the three most important cycles in the artist\u2019s oeuvre, each copiously illustrated in the book. The first is the C\u00e9l\u00e9bration du sol<\/em>series from the 1950s, in which the artist explores the infinite effects of the material of which the earth is composed, which includes his Mat\u00e9riologies <\/em>and Texturologies<\/em>. The L\u2019Hourloupe\u00a0<\/em>series, the true wellspring of Dubuffet\u2019s art, which \u201cmakes sense of what came before and was to come after,\u201d as Daniel Abadie has written, covers the years 1962 to 1974 and was first presented at the Palazzo Grassi exhibition in 1964. This is a very busy, almost riotous art, as the very term \u201cHourloupe\u201d (from the French entourloupe<\/em>, a trick) suggests, which aims to create an alternative world that is able to dig down to the core of reality. The last cycle is the Mires <\/em>series dating from the 1980s, which is made up of paintings displaying flowing, brightly coloured brushwork that extends the physical boundaries of the work.<\/p>\n There is every reason to suppose this slender book will become a collector\u2019s piece, containing as it does an array of drawings, gouaches, and other material, such as photographs, letters, and articles by Dubuffet, thus providing the reader with a full perspective on the artist\u2019s daring experiments.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sophie Webel\u00a0<\/strong>has been director of the Dubuffet Foundation since 2003. She joined the foundation in 1997 after being assistant director of Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris (1983\u201397). She is the author of Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre grav\u00e9 et des livres illustr\u00e9s de Jean Dubuffe<\/em>, which was published in 1991.<\/p>\n Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jaeger\u00a0<\/strong>was executive assistant at the Dubuffet Foundation from 1986 to 2003 and general co-director of Galerie Jeanne-Bucher in Paris from 2003 to 2010. He has also organized several exhibitions of works by Jean Dubuffet in France and abroad. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jaeger lives in Venice and Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The roots of the strong link between Jean Dubuffet and Venice lie in the past. It is no accident that the city has hosted two famous exhibitions that marked crucial stages in the artist\u2019s career: one held in Palazzo Grassi in 1964 and another in the French pavilion at the 1984 Biennale. In both cases,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22482,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[48],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18290","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-outsider-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}