François Morellet

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François Morellet (1995)

François Morellet (born April 30, 1926 in Cholet , Département Maine-et-Loire , France ; † May 10, 2016 there ) was a French artist who mainly dealt with painting , light art , kinetic art , sculpture and copper engraving . His art is generally attributed to geometric abstraction and minimalism , even if a certain proximity to Dadaism is postulated by whom? becomes. Morellet is one of the most outstanding French exponents of Concrete Art . Along with Julio Le Parc , Horacio Garcia Rossi , Francisco Sobrino , Joël Stein and Yvaral, he was one of the co-founders of the group of artists Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV) in 1960 .

life and work

François Morellet: "Sphère - trames" - Sculpture Garden Museum Abteiberg

Morellet initially worked in his parents' company from 1948 to 1975. During this time he was self-taught with painting before he also took lessons from a painter. As early as 1950, Morellet described himself as an “abstract painter” and had his first exhibition at the Galerie Creuze in Paris . In the 1960s he turned more and more to experimental art and became a member of GRAV, a group of artists who wanted to scientifically explore the possibilities of visual art experimentally. From 1963 he used neon . From the late 1960s, Morellet also began to be interested in architecture and work in public spaces. a at the Center Culturel in Compiègne , in the Paris quarter La Défense and in the sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo . In 1972 his work 2 trames de tirets 0 ° 90 ° was created for the Peter Stuyvesant cigarette factory in Zevenaar , the Netherlands . Morellet last lived in Cholet and Paris.

François Morellet took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world as part of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel and later as a solo artist. This included, among other things, taking part in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 in the famous Light and Movement department , and as a solo artist at the 4th documenta in 1968 and documenta 6 in 1977. He also took part in the 1970 Venice Biennale .

In 2010, his stained glass windows entitled L'esprit d'escalier were completed in the 19th century staircase of the Louvre in Paris , built by architect Hector Lefuel .

Awards

Exhibitions

literature

  • François Morellet: Grands Formats. Catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum 1991, ed. by Ernst-Gerhard Güse, with contributions by François Morellet and Serge Lemoine (out of French by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel), by Ernest W. Uthemann and Meinrad Maria Grewenig. 160 p., 58 illustrations, 17 of them in color, Saarbrücken 1991, ISBN 3-925303-52-9
  • François Morellet: The squaring of the square. An introspective. Exhibition catalog, ed. by Museum Ritter / Gerda Ridler, (German, English, French), 96 pages, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88423-321-4
  • François Morellet: Works 1971–1988 . Documents of Our Time - Volume VII, With texts by Max Bense, Dorothea van der Koelen, François Morellet (German, English, French) 48 pp., 35 b / w ills ., Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-926663-07- 3
  • François Morellet: Treatise on the Method . Documents of Our Time - Volume XIX, With texts by François Morellet, Dorothea van der Koelen (German, English, French, Korean) 84 pp., 47 illustrations, 39 of which are in color, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-926663-19 -7
  • François Morellet: Constructions with the number π. Documents of Our Time - Volume XXVII, texts by Jean-Hubert Martin and François Morellet (German, English, French) 72 pages, 74 illustrations, 16 of them in color, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-926663-27-8
  • François Morellet: A book with nothing to see, About works of art that don't want to say anything ; A selection of texts by the artist; translated and introduced by Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm, 112 p., bilingual: French / German, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-931876-49-7
  • François Morellet: Senile Lines and others. Documents of Our Time - Volume XXXV, texts by François Morellet and Dorothea Strauss (German, English, French) 72 pages, approx. 50 illustrations, mostly in color, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-926663-35-9
  • Francois Morellet, with contributions by Thomas McEvilley, Arnauld Pierre, Jacqueline Lichtenstein and Jean-Francois Groulier, foreword by SC Weber, bilingual: German / English, Swiridoff 2002, ISBN 978-3-934350-67-0
  • Francois Morellet · Reason and Irony, with contributions by Francois Morellet, Serge Lemoine, Sonja Klee, Daniel Abadie. Foreword by Sylvia Weber, Pierre Hugel, Peter van Etten. Bilingual: German / French, Swiridoff 2008, ISBN 978-3-89929-145-2
  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
  • Harald Kimpel / Karin Stengel: documenta III 1964 - International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications in the documenta archive), Bremen 2005, ISBN 978-3-86108-528-7
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

Web links

Commons : François Morellet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Valérie Duponchelle: L'artiste François Morellet est mort. In: Le Figaro . Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ François Morellet, French Abstract Artist, Dies at 90
personal data
SURNAME Morellet, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Cholet
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2016
Place of death Cholet