Paris, Centre Pompidou

Pierre Soulages will reach his 90th birthday year in December and this, the Centre Pompidou’s first major retrospective of his sixty-year career, celebrates Soulages’s enormous contribution to abstract art. The exhibitions spans over a hundred major works dating from 1946 to the present day, including his seminal work l’Outrenoir (1979) as well as his more recent paintings, many of which are being shown for the first time.

Known as the “painter of black and light”, Soulages has had at least four major exhibitions in Paris. The Centre Pompidou held its first large-scale exhibition in 1979, and he is notably the first living artist invited to exhibit at the state Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Abstract and serene, his works are a masterful marriage of hand and spirit, “pure nothingness” and perceptual balance.


October 14, 2009 – Mars 8, 2010
Galerie 1 niveau 6
Place George Pompidou
75004 Paris
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