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een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
André-Pierre Arnal
The Architect of Materiality: The Visionary World of André-Pierre Arnal In the mid-1960s, a radical seismic shift occurred within the landscape of French painting, a movement that sought to strip away the pretenses of tradition and expose the raw, beating heart of the medium. At the center of this revolution stood André-𝓹ierre Arnal, a figure whose career has been defined by an unyielding commitment to deconstructing the very essence o
f what it means to paint. Born in Nîmes in 1939, Arnal emerged not merely as a painter, but as a philosopher of form. His journey was inextricably linked to the Supports/Surfaces group, an avant-garde collective that challenged the sanctity of the canvas and sought to interrogate the relationship between the support—the physical substrate—and the surface—the layer of pigment and texture. Arnal’s early involvement with this movement wa…
