Presse mappe - Observatoire

ONIRIS -­‐ galerie d’art contemporainDirector : Florent PaumelleGallery creadon’s year: 1986www.galerie-­‐oniris.frcontact@galerie-­‐oniris.fr+33 2 99 36 46 0638 rue d’Antrain35700 RennesFrançois Morellet, 1 -­‐1 etc… ver-cal – 1-­‐1 etc… horizontal – 1-­‐1 etc… ver-cal – 2-­‐2 etc… (-ll 25), 1976. Rotring on paper, 49, 5 x 49, 5 cm © Courtesy Galerie Oniris -­‐ RennesFocus ardst : François Morellet, born in 1926Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Vera Molnar, Yves Popet, Aurelie NemoursPrices of the works: from 300 € to 24 000 €Opened in 1986 in Rennes with solo show exhibidon of François Morellet, Oniris Gallery became over the years, a landmark of contemporary art in the West of France.François Morellet belongs to that strange category of ardsts, whose mixture of humor and intelligence, character and personality decisively induces his art. Class is usually François Morellet in the field of so-­‐called Concrete Art and one could also mendon the idea of his art being near to Minimal Art if one takes into consideradon the concepdonal tendency of his works. All these ahempts to localize his art, indeed reach his work, but none of them can term and seize his art representadvely. Through the end of the sevendes François Morellet created various works, with which not only single lines or raster lines are shiged by degrees, but the canvases, the backgrounds themselves seem to have come into modon.The drawing from 1976 dtled « 1 -­‐1 etc. verdcal – 1-­‐1 etc. horizontal – 1-­‐1 etc. verdcal – 2-­‐2 etc. horizontal (dll #25) », offers despite the simplicity of the principle used, a system which from its opdcal appearance phenomenologically seems to be quieted differendated.In another exhibited series of drawings from the year 1977, all in the size of 45 x 45 cm, a simple principal formulates diverse pictorial results, simply through variadons of propordon. All the works of this serial, « Cercle fragmenté », « Triangle fragmenté », « Carré fragmenté » applies the same rule: a simple split of the frame to its own limit.Presse mappe I Seite 58