L’invisible Vu
Opening: September 6th, 4p.m
Duration: September 7th -October 20th, 2019
(Closed every Monday)
Host:Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
Ticket Price:Free
Address:Building 3, No.210, Wenshui Rd, Jingan, Shanghai
The European painting exhibition L'invisible vu will open to public on September 6th, 2019, at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum. By showing up 44 groups works of 19 artists, the exhibition offers a look at the individual exploring road of the European artists after the Second World War. From the prevailing of lyric abstractionism over the European continent in 1940s to geometric abstractionism got its growth, exhibition follow this path to rethink the connection between their individual creation and the context of the era. Sylvain Amic is the curator of the exhibition.
L'invisible vu, the exhibition title is not about the unknown on
the layer of visual, but emphasizes the approach and the means that artists applied to their creation. Then postwar existentialist philosophy influenced the new generation of artists in that period, they started to pay attention to the free expression of individuals and reflects on the predicament of their era. They tried to redefine themselves and againsted to previous geometric abstraction and any kind of painting that was restrained and limited by any theories. “Personal feeling” and “internal need” are the main topics in their works. The exhibition conveys these creative ideas through the works of Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Arpad Szenes and Jean Dubuffet, etc.
For most of those artists, like Josef Sima said in an interview: “Painting will give us another experience of reality (not only visual sense), it leads us to listening to what we can see and drawing what is invisible.” Therefore, their works become a trace of the very personalized realities, expressing the internal inevitability. The poem for gesture, the lament for color —— embracing these faiths, artists tried to express a real impulsion, to remove the abstraction from their aesthetic inertia and to depict an antagonistic emotion.
* The exhibition will open for free on September, 7th, 2019, and will run until October, 20th, 2019.
Hans Hartung, 1961-72, oil on canvas, 65x105cm, 1962
Jean Dubuffet, Figuration XII, black felting pen on yellow paper cutting and laminated on white paper, 37.8 x 28 cm, 1974
Sylvain Amic born in 1967, a Dakar teachers family. He got his degree in art history from Lille University, after that he passed the test of the National Institute of Heritage and devoted himself into the field of museum. Sylvain Amic took in charge of the work in Montpellier Fabre Museum in 2000, and he has made contributions to the reform and development of Museum’s advanced projects for 11years. In 2011, Amic took over the management work of Rouen Museum, as well the curating work of some exhibitions at National Gallery of Grand Palace, including the first retrospective exhibition of German expressionism painter Emil Nolde (2008) and the feature exhibition Bohèmes (2012). Since 2016, Sylvain Amic has been working on cooperations between museums, which aims to gathering up the activity and operation of 8 different museums from the Rouen Normandie metropolitan area.
Alfred Manessier
André Marfaing
Antinio Saura
Arpad Szenes
Asger Jorn
Aurélie Nemours
Camimme Bryen
Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
Hans Hartung
Jean Dubuffet
Josef Sima
Karel Appel
Maria Helena Vieria de Silva
Nicolas de Stael
Pailes Isaac
Pierre Soulages
Roger Bissière
Véra Molnar
Victor Vasarely