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#361 - from 23 October 2014 to 29 October 2014


André Villers, Cut out / collage, 25 X 38 cm, signed and dated 1 - 10 1990. Courtesy Galerie Intuiti Paris - Brussels

André Villers, a tribute to Picasso

Just like Lucien Clergue, he was a very young photographer Picasso trusted and even gave his very first camera. For twenty years, André Villers (born in 1930) documented Picasso’s daily life in Cannes (at the villa La Californie), then in Mougins, his last residence, and created some truly historic photos. André Villers was undoubtedly influenced by the master’s polymorphism and had also tried to make metamorphoses (sometimes together with Picasso himself) cutting out, repainting and recomposing his own photographs. His most recent collages (essentially from the 1990s), exhibited in a gallery very near the musée Picasso, show the influence of the brilliant Andalusian artist was not dimed by time.
• André Villers at the galerie Intuiti (16, rue des Coutures-Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris), until 14 November 2014

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