Jean MAS (1946) L'ombre de Van Gogh, 2015 Mixed technique, s - Lot 238

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Jean MAS (1946) L'ombre de Van Gogh, 2015 Mixed technique, s - Lot 238
Jean MAS (1946) L'ombre de Van Gogh, 2015 Mixed technique, signed and annotated on the back of the frame. 100 x 60 cm Performance / Exhibition: Musée des Beaux-Arts Chéret, 2015, "L'ombre de Van Gogh". In 1977, the Centre Pompidou invited a group of artists from the Alpes-Maritimes, called the École de Nice, for its inaugural exhibition. The prolific and colourful current crossed the movements New Realism, Fluxus and Supports/Surfaces. The School integrates a permanent questioning of the codes of art, mixing irony, humor, sometimes humorous, distance, a taste for semantic games, but above all a need for new plastic research. In his preface to the Beaubourg exhibition catalogue, Pontus Hulten wrote: "Contemporary art would not have had the same history without the encounters that took place in the Nice region". Pierre Restany, the famous art critic, places Jean Mas as the "synthesis" of this School, which he embodies through his main object: the flycage. The artist defines it as a formal absurdity. "The flycage does not contain a fly, the fly is replaced by speech. This derisory, almost ridiculous object becomes an artistic vehicle, which makes it possible to go further or go round in circles. This is why I was placed in the Nice School in the idea of "individual mythology", the cage is the place of this founding myth. »
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