Art Of The Day Weekly

#537 - from 13 December 2018 to 19 December 2018


Joan Mitchell, Untitled, ca 1952-1953, oil on canvas, 182,8 x 172,4 cm. Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Genève. Photo M. Aeschimann © Estate of Joan Mitchell.

IN THE AIR

Mitchell-Riopelle, fatal attraction

LANDERNEAU – Till death do us part… for the love of art. Passion, excesses, and violence marked the relationship between American artist Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) and Canadian artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002). The two abstract expressionists chose France to create, love one another, fight, and self-destroy. While Riopelle often had the best part of the cake, the recent explosion of Mitchell’s rating (in particular at the last edition of Art Basel at Basel, at Lévy Gorvy) puts them back on an equal footing. This mano a mano, based on large formats, follows them over their relationship that lasted a quarter of a century, from 1955, when they were in their early thirties, and which ended in 1979, when both were bumped up by life and alcohol, but both were just as creative.
Mitchell Riopelle, un couple dans la démesure at the Fonds Etienne et Hélène Leclerc pour la culture , from 16 December 2018 to 22 April 2019.

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