Exhibition - “Partenaires Particulaires. Supports, surfaces, dissémination.” at Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence

We are please to announce Mélinda Fourn’s participation in the collective exhibition “Partenaires Particulaires. Supports, surfaces, dissémination.” at Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, curated bu Hugo Vitrani. The exhibition will run from March 14th to November 2nd, 2025.

The Partenaires particulaires exhibition acts like a field of (sometimes bad) seeds, starting with a knot bringing together a dozen historic works by Supports/Surfaces. This code name for a short-lived but still highly topical avant-garde movement marked the history of the French art scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s through a return to abstract painting in a raw version, augmented by a healthy dose of savoir-faire. Brushless paintings, stretcherless pictures, folded and burned canvases, assembled wood, stamped prints… These lines serve as a manifesto for La peinture en question, the first exhibition of a group that has continued to grow and self-criticize, only to leave each other in public. In 1969, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Patrick Saytour and Claude Viallat asserted: “The object of painting is painting itself, and the paintings exhibited relate only to themselves. They do not appeal to an “elsewhere” (the artist’s personalitý, biography, art history, for example). They offer no escape, because the surface, through the ruptures of form that are operated upon it, prohibits the viewer’s mental projections or dreamlike ramblings.

Credit: Antoine Lippens