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JACQUES / MAO / MARYAN

Three characters - Three visions

 

October 2019

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On the occasion of the launch of its activities, the Kaléidoscope gallery brings together three artists from the second half of the 20th century endowed with a still burning topical vision:  Jacques GrinbergMao To Lai et Maryan.

With more than fifty works - paintings, drawings, lithographs - distributed in the seven rooms of 24Beaubourg, the exhibition offers a rare introduction to the work of three unclassifiable painters.

Three painters who have exile and the “deterritorialization” of their creation in common; pictorial virulence and the courage to confront violence to better understand it; a remarkable mastery of drawing to express their visions more spontaneously; a strong character and a life force that marked those who knew them; the choice, rare and significant,   to sign with their “first names”: JACQUES, MAO, MARYAN.

The audacity, creativity and imagination of JAMES and MARYAN  make them major figures in the pictorial scene of their time. In the current period of rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s, both are enjoying renewed interest from museums and collectors. We must now go further to offer the public a real knowledge of these fascinating works, in all their facets.

By presenting at their side MAO, artist of Vietnamese origin, of great originality in his way of creating a dialogue, through painting, between Asia and the West, the ambition is to establish an unexpected and fertile rapprochement.

Created on the principle of itinerancy and variable geometry partnerships, the Kaléidoscope gallery wishes to concentrate in the future on a limited number of artists to give itself more luck and more time to defend them. With this exhibition and the following ones, she intends to contribute to widening the gaze by giving these works and these artists the opportunity to make their way into the imagination.

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