Claude Viallat is one of the founders of the Supports/Surfaces movement in the 1970s, which called for art to renew itself through a deconstruction of traditional materials. Viallat started to work on industrial tarp, endlessly repeating the same abstract pattern, resembling a small bone, which became his signature. Stencilled repeatedly onto a range of supports, the pattern asks us to reflect on the meaning of the creative act and the status of the work of art.
“The form is of no interest. What is there is that it is not geometric, it is not symbolic, it is not representative, it is not decorative, so it has all the qualities” - Claude Viallat
The exhibition is on view at Templon’s New York location through 4/27.
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