Mot Nu Mental — François Dufrêne

Exhibition

Installation

Mot Nu Mental
François Dufrêne

Past: March 16 → April 21, 2018

The gallery Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois present in both its spaces the work of Julien Berthier, Martin Kersels and an installation of François Dufrêne.

Dufrêne was a poet, resolutely a poet. Anyone who knew him remembers a formidable onstage presence, with his famous Scream-rhythms, oral performances with dislocated semantics. He became a plastic artist after meeting, and then being mentored by, Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé, which allowed him to further explore his letterist experiments by becoming a “poster artist”. But Dufrêne exhibited his posters stuck on backwards, calling them Dos, Dessous or Envers (back, underside, behind). This subterfuge gave a unique patina to his canvases, reversing the meaning and the readings of the words on the posters, in the form, as he put it himself, of “rearranged scraps”. A concrete and upside-down poetry.

  • Opening Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6 PM
06 St Germain Zoom in 06 St Germain Zoom out

33/36, rue de Seine

75006 Paris

T. 01 46 34 61 07 — F. 01 43 25 18 80

www.galerie-vallois.com

Mabillon
Odéon
Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Opening hours

Every day except Sunday, 10 AM – 5 PM

The artist

  • François Dufrêne

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