Fire Beneath the Ashes, 2005-06, Musée Maillol, Paris.
The exhibition takes its name from a phrase once used by the American painter Mark Rothko, who made it his own: “If you seek fire, you will find ashes.”
‘Fire Beneath the Ashes’ presents a broad range of trends in the history of modern art that. What the artists in this exhibition share is a profound exploration of the depths of involuntary memory, drawing from it the inspiration for their work.
Torrés Garcia’s initiatory itinerary in which he will follow a strange course, from Greek art to Mondrian, and which will open a second category, the tabula rasa, the table bare from all forms of culture.
This new destiny of modern art takes body in art brut.
Dubuffet, Chaissac created a new vision that owes nothing to the primitivism from which Picasso had drawn the forms and ideas of modernity. In parallel, we can witness through Louis Soutter’s work the emergence of the subconscious and its plastic translation. The fire under the ashes drifts away from expressionism to anchor in silence.
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