Masters of the tondo 1997

From 22 May to 28 June 1997 - Galerie Claude Lemand

  • Sam Francis, Tondo 1987

    Sam Francis, Untitled, 1987. Oil on canvas, tondo 150 cm. © The Sam Francis Foundation. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Shirley Jaffe, Mozart Kugel, 1982

    Shirley Jaffe, Mozart Kugel, 1982. Oil on canvas, tondo 150 cm. © Shirley Jaffe. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Bengt Lindström, Le baiser, 1992

    Bengt Lindström, Le baiser, 1992. Oil on canvas, tondo 120 cm. © Bengt Lindström. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Joan Mitchell, Tondo 1991

    Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1991. Oil on canvas, tondo 150 cm. © The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Jorge Camacho, Oculus n° 2, 1992

    Jorge Camacho, Oculus n° 2, 1992. Oil on canvas, tondo 100 cm. © Jorge Camacho. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Peter Klasen, Manette 023-4R-Rouge, 1988

    Peter Klasen, Manette 023-4R-Rouge, 1988. Acrylic and objects on panel, tondo 105 cm. © Peter Klasen. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Joël Kermarrec, Crâne, torse, trois couleurs, 1989-90

    Joël Kermarrec, Crâne, torse, trois couleurs, 1989-90. Oil on canvas, tondo 120 cm. © Joël Kermarrec. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Pat Andrea, Annonciation, 1997

    Pat Andrea, Annonciation, 1997. Graphite and watercolour on paper, tondo 60 cm. © Pat Andrea. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • RIOPELLE, Untitled, 1964.

    Untitled, 1964. Oil on canvas, diameter 100 cm. © Fondation Riopelle. Courtesy of Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

The eleven artists of this third exhi­bi­tion of the Masters of the tondo are from dif­ferent geo­graphic, cul­tural and aes­thetic back­grounds, but they all chose Paris, whether it be tem­po­rary or per­ma­nently, as their cap­ital of life, cre­ation and inter­na­tional growing suc­cess.

Artists. Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Shirley Jaffe, Bengt Lindström, Joan Mitchell, Shafic Abboud, Abdallah Benanteur, Jorge Camacho, Peter Klasen, Joël Kermarrec, Pat Andrea.

The use of the round format goes back to the ori­gins of painting. In Europe, some of the most impor­tant mas­ters dis­tin­guished them­selves in tondo painting, from Jean Maluel (1400) to the painters of the Italian, Flemish and Dutch Renaissance, without omit­ting the great artists of later cen­turies, from Goya and Delacroix to Ingres with his iconic Bain turc, Monet with his sig­na­ture Nymphéas (1907), Delaunay (1911), Picasso, Metzinger, Kandinsky (1923), Léger, Gleizes, Gorin, Bolotowsky, Herbin.

After 1940, a con­tin­uous re-emer­gence of the tondo took place, with Glarner, Pollock, Riopelle, Hantai, Zao Wou Ki, Stella, Télémaque, Rancillac, Wesselman, Tovar, Lichtenstein, Estève, Corneille, Doucet, Alechinsky, Belkahia, Sam Francis, Jaffe, Benanteur, Klasen, Camacho, Lindström, Kermarrec, Le Parc, Mitchell, Velickovic, Titus-Carmel, Abboud, Andrea, … and the new gen­er­a­tion of artists like Kaminer, Kochi, Corpet, ...

Beyond its tech­nical and sym­bol­ical speci­fici­ties and the variety of the tondo’s aes­thetic and social func­tions, it fur­ther­more encom­passes all the trends of XXth cen­tury painting.

Translated from French by Valérie Hess.

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