3 Lichtenstein = 1 Deschamps, 1965, private collection, Paris, courtesy of
G.P. & N.Vallois Gallery.
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Musée des beaux-arts de Dole
Pavillon des officiers
85, rue des Arènes
39100 Dole
Contact :
Tél : 03 84 79 25 85 - Fax : 03 84 72 89 46
Site : www.dole.org
Hours and price of admission :
Open everyday except Monday from 10 am to 12 am
and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Entrance free.
Free guided tour every other Sunday
Curator ;
Anne Dary, curator to the Jura Museums
Press contact :
Samuel Monier
E-mail : smonier@wanadoo.fr
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Gerard Deschamps is an outstanding painter, a creator of highly visual, exuberant and colourful works. Following his one man show in 1998 at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, and his participation in Artists Collections in Avignon in 2001, the Museum of Dole holds the first retrospective of his works, bringing together pieces from 1957 to 2003, showing the different aspects of his work, with its series, ruptures and inventions.
A free-wheeling artist
After 1955, Gerard Deschamps, who is self-taught, abandoned oil painting which, he found, lacked flexibility, and turned to collage, using photos of objects from the Manufrance catalogue, which led to explorations in all directions : tarpoline, armour plating, plastics, cloth and corsets. The youngest member of the New Realists Group, he broke with the Parisian art scene in 1971 and settled in his grand-parents' house in Berry where he continues to develop his work in direct contact with the real world. He is a free-wheeling artist, working lavishly with colour and succesfully practising the art of the"ready made", between ambiguity and denounciation.
The encounter between painting and the everyday world.
Thanks to the assistance of various museums, private collectors and gallery owners, the exhibition has gathered about fifty works, from 1957 to 2003, a wealth of forms, media, colour and diverse inventions, such as his accumulation of clothes and lingerie from the 60s, as well as metal abstractions and selected plastic materials, creased, embellished objects linked with the everyday world or fashion from the 80s. This retrospective establishes new links between painting and the everyday world, between still-life and collage which are being reinvented, often with wit and always with great accuracy.
Publication
Catalogue : "Deschamps, Retrospective 1956-2003", exhibition catalogue - Museum of Fine Arts at Dole and the Museum of the Saint-Roch Hospice at Issoudun, 2003, 83 pages, ill.
Key to illustrations
Left : Combinaison et plastique rose ,1961, courtesy of Gilles Peroulet and Cie
Right : Trade Mark , 1963, ,private collection, Paris, courtesy of G.P.and N.Vallois Gallery.
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