Painting is dead, long live painting! Painting masterpieces from the Yvon Lambert Donation
It was upon this equally sad and erroneous observation that young artists decided in the 1980s to celebrate once again this practice that is inseparable from the very notion of art. With a certain irony, the death of painting spurred some to play with its remains in a frantic dance and, for many, was the best time to start painting.
This painting of a new beginning, whose heroism and vitality lay at the heart of the 1980s creative abundance, soon seduced Yvon Lambert. Driven by an unwavering passion for novelty, his gallery has welcomed a multitude of painters who, if they aspired to blow a fresh wind, shared with the artists of the previous generation 鈥 not without a certain jubilation 鈥 the gallery owner鈥檚 unique programme.
Some have seen in Yvon Lambert鈥檚 choices a complete and condemnable break with what is the soul of the gallery. This was a misunderstanding of the vision of a man very attentive to the historical evolutions of his time, just as the observation that painting had irremediably died over the past decades neglected too quickly an entire part of the most avant-garde creation.
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It was upon this equally sad and erroneous observation that young artists decided in the 1980s to celebrate once again this practice that is inseparable from the very notion of art. With a certain irony, the death of painting spurred some to play with its remains in a frantic dance and, for many, was the best time to start painting.
This painting of a new beginning, whose heroism and vitality lay at the heart of the 1980s creative abundance, soon seduced Yvon Lambert. Driven by an unwavering passion for novelty, his gallery has welcomed a multitude of painters who, if they aspired to blow a fresh wind, shared with the artists of the previous generation 鈥 not without a certain jubilation 鈥 the gallery owner鈥檚 unique programme.
Some have seen in Yvon Lambert鈥檚 choices a complete and condemnable break with what is the soul of the gallery. This was a misunderstanding of the vision of a man very attentive to the historical evolutions of his time, just as the observation that painting had irremediably died over the past decades neglected too quickly an entire part of the most avant-garde creation.
Artists on show
- Agnes Martin
- Anselm Kiefer
- Bertrand Lavier
- Brice Marden
- Edda Renouf
- Enzo Cucchi
- James Bishop
- Jean Charles Blais
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Julian Schnabel
- Loïc Le Groumellec
- Louis Jammes
- Miquel Barceló
- Niele Toroni
- Olivier Mosset
- Richard Serra
- Robert Barry
- Robert Combas
- Robert Mangold
- Robert Ryman
- Yvon Lambert