Eric Chantala, Antiquaire à Paris

Hans Hartung

La fabrique du geste

11 October 2019 - 1 March 2020

The visitor is introduced to the wide range of media, the wealth of technical innovations and the array of tools used during six prolific decades. For Hartung experimentation was all-important, as was the uncompromising, conceptually inflected modernism he embodied. The essays on colour and format as a rigorous studio methodology, together with framing, photography, enlargement, repetition and – even more surprising – identical reproduction of quite a few of his works, were all elements of his research into the original and the authentic and have lost nothing of their relevance today. Hartung paved the way, too, for a number of his fellow artists, among them Pierre Soulages, who was always frank about his debt to him.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

11 Avenue du Président Wilson 

75116 Paris

Tél. +33 1 53 67 40 00