Installation of a monumental canvas of 14 meters by 4 of Simon Hantaï, surrealist artist of Hungarian origin, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Orleans. The work will be one of the attractions of the new rooms devoted to modern art. Jacques HOURRIERE, restaurateur Musée national d'art moderne de Paris, talks about the difficulties of hanging this painting.
Exhibition of works from 1958 to 1968 by the painter Simon Hantaï at the Maeght Foundation. Explanation of the latter’s technique, adapted for some of Pollock’s gestural paintings.
In his studio, the Hungarian painter Simon HANTAI, in front of his immense works, evokes the question of color in art and the rupture that represents on this subject the work of Cézanne, especially with his painting on the Sainte-Victoire Mountain. He talks about a "full space break".
The Hungarian painter Simon HANTAI has been experimenting for twenty years with a technique of folding the canvas. It shows the process of creating a work.
In his studio, the Hungarian painter Simon HANTAI, in front of his immense works, evokes a project that is close to his heart: to enlarge by the quantity of color the luminous intensity, in connection with Matisse’s assertion that a square centimetre is less blue than a square metre.
The Hungarian painter Simon HANTAI explains why he adopted the folding process. According to him, "it is a historical necessity", "an obscure need to do something that is the elemental material of painting". He also evokes the painter Pollock.
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