Simon Hantaï (1922–2008) is one of the most important representatives of international post-war painting. In 1948, the Hungarian artist emigrated to Paris, where he soon became part of the city's vibrant avant-garde community. After an early Surrealist phase, he turned to Informel painting in the 1950s and at the same time intensively dealt with the work of Jackson Pollock. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Hantaï’s work, as he now focused his radically experimental works on the so-called "pliage comme méthode" – compositions, in which he covered the folded canvas with oil or acrylic in order to produce brightly colored chance patterns. In 1980, Hantaï was awarded the Grand Prix National des Arts Plastiques, and two years later he represented France at the Biennale in Venice. With around 40 often monumental masterpieces from four decades of pictorial experimentation, the exhibition in Baden-Baden provides a multifaceted overview over Hantaï’s visionary artistic output, presenting his outstanding contribution to the development of international post-war abstraction as a deeply moving feast of color.
The numerous lenders to the exhibition include the Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Genève, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Musée d’art moderne de Paris, as well as the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne.
An exhibition of the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. With the generous support of the Archives Simon Hantaï, Paris.
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