The exhibition, Libres Figurations - Années 80, curated by Pascale Le Thorel, brings together for the first time more than 50 major international artists emblematic of this scene. It brings together over 200 works and evokes this universe through paintings, sculptures, films, videos, photos and archival documents... Libres Figurations - Années 80 recounts the various episodes in this history and is a testimony to this non-academic, often provocative art, inspired by popular culture, born in the street, in clubs, in magazines as much as in studios, and which maintains a strong link with the rock, punk and contemporary art scenes.
with the rock, punk and comics scenes.
Five years after its opening, the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc in Landerneau welcomed over 850,000 visitors, who flocked to see the exceptional historical exhibitions devoted to the great masters of modern art - Chagall, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Hartung, Miró, Picasso - and the monographic presentations of contemporary artists such as Fromanger, Kersalé, Mattotti and Monory.
Today, the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc is inaugurating a program open to the major movements and artists of the late 20th century and the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an artistic movement spread throughout the world under a variety of names: Figuration libre in France (Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa, Catherine Viollet...); Graffiti in the USA (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf...); Neue Wilde Malerei (Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Groupe Normal, Salomé...) in Germany; Les Nouveaux artistes in the USSR (Afrika, Timur Novikov, Oleg Kotelnikov)...
The exhibition, Libres Figurations - Années 80, curated by Pascale Le Thorel, brings together for the first time more than 50 major international artists emblematic of this scene. It brings together over 200 works and evokes this universe through paintings, sculptures, films, videos, photos and archival documents... Libres Figurations - Années 80 recounts the various episodes in this history and is a testimony to this non-academic, often provocative art, inspired by popular culture, born in the street, in clubs, in magazines as much as in studios, and which maintains a strong link with the rock, punk and contemporary art scenes.
At the heart of the exhibition's concept is the curator's dialogue with the artists and players involved in free figurations, in selecting works from international museums and major private collections, or on loan from the artists themselves, to create a lively event reflecting the reality of this international movement.
Artists on show
Afrika ; Valeri Alakhov ; Elvira Bach ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; Ben ; Rémi Blanchard ; François Boisrond ; Roberto Cabot ; Marie-Odile Camdessus ; Luciano Castelli ; Robert Combas ; Crash ; Walter Dahn ; Hervé Di Rosa ; Richard (Buddy) Di Rosa ; Jiri Georg Dokoupil ; Rainer Fetting ; Futura 2000 ; Vassili Goloubiev ; Speedy Graphito ; Keith Haring ; Philippe Hortala ; Louis Jammes ; Oleg Kotelnikov ; Kriki ; Andrei Krissanov ; Tseng Kwong Chi ; Konstantin Latyshev ; Samantha McEwen ; Mission Totale ; Musulmans fumants ; Groupe Normal ; Timour Novikov ; Frères Ripoulin ; Ru Xiao-Fan ; Abderrazak Sahli ; Salomé ; Inal Savchenkov ; Ivan Sotnikov ; Kenny Scharf ; Igor Veritchev ; Catherine Viollet et Bernd Zimmer
