Tachism / “Informal art”

An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".

Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.

The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.

A study of Tadini's position in the early post-war cultural debate, with a large documentation of paintings, photographic studies, drawing and collages, based on an unpublished manuscript.

Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.

Monograph dedicated to the set of 70 pieces by Arnulf Rainer constituting the Fonds Michel Foëx, of which Rainer Michael Mason presents the first study.

Hans Hartung and the cinema.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

The reference monograph deepens, for the first time in an exhaustive way, the pioneering installations created by Fontana since the late 1940s.

This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.

An improvised musical piece recorded with the friends of Herman de Vries at his 80th birthday's summer party on June 18, 2011, in Eschenau. With liner notes by Herman de Vries and photos of the event on the back sleeve.

Narrative essay developping the notion of abhumanism, a critical philosophy which questions the centrality of mankind in our relationship to the world. With illustrations by Camille Bryen and a foreword by Michel Giroud.

A well documented bilingual (English / Japanese) publication presenting ten recent paintings by the artist, and highlighting the special relationship between Pierre Soulages and Japan, where his work was exhibited very early in his career and quickly enjoyed significant recognition. A unique catalogue, published on the occasion of the opening of Perrotin Tokyo.

The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.

The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.

French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.

The art of etching in Hartung's work

All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.

Artist's book (infinity in finity, endlessly repeated).

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.

Facsimile edition of the artist book “L'Asparagus” from 1963. Book includes the poem “L'Asparagus” by Francis Ponge and 8 lithographs by Jean Fautrier.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book.

A journey through mythology, antique civilizations and cities which are cradles and of Jannis Kounellis's own artistic reflection.

A journey through mythology, antique civilizations and cities which are cradles and of Jannis Kounellis's own artistic reflection. The book is accompanied by a puddle of lead, an original and unique work for each copy, signed by the artist.

Artist's book.

A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an unprocessed and unlimitted material.

10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception.

Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, a bibliography 1995-2004, and 14 texts by Herman de Vries read by the author on an audio CD-ROM included.

Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.

Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.

Unpublished text, lithography, enhanced with pastel for each copy and signed.

Using unpublished material at the Fondation Hartung Bergman, this exhibition catalogue concentrates on the earlier phases of Hartung's career and demonstrates the critical importance of his drawings.

A presentation of Hans Hartung's painted work.

A series of “Outrenoirs” produced by Pierre Soulages between 1986 and 2018.

Catalogue of the exhibition gathering a set of eighty works, on canvas or paper, in small and very large formats, that Anna-Eva Bergman created in the wake of her two travels to northern Norway, in 1950 and 1964, from which emerges a plastic language that signs the whole of his future work.

Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.

Luxurious bilingual monograph dedicated to Hans Hartung, bringing together numerous works from 1922 to 1989. Directed by Matthieu Poirier, the richly documented publication features a full-color central section with reproductions of Hartung's paintings. Appendix includes a text by Jean Clay and an interview with Pierre Soulages by Pierre Encrevé, in which the painter discusses his friendship with Hartung.

A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

A conversation betwen the painter and the art critic and curator.

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition Hartung in China, on the relations between calligraphy and Western painting, taking Hans Hartung's work as starting point.

10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception (also available in English edition).

A original approach to the life and work of Hans Hartung through its relationship with the space of his houses and workshops, in Menorca, Paris, and Antibes.

A minimalist interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (artist's book).