Jackie Matisse : Jeux d'espace
Paris: Bernard Chauveau Editeur, 2013. Softcover. White card wraps with color illus. and yellow/red lettering. Color-pictorial French flaps. 119 pp. with 100 color and several bw images. As New. Item #158269
ISBN: 9782363060983
Catalogue from the exhibition held July to September 2013 at Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Dambresis. Most text in French; some in English. "Jackie Matisse, granddaughter of Henri Matisse and daughter of Pierre Matisse who had a famous gallery in New York, was born in 1931. This immense filiation and her father’s position meant she was in contact very early with the most important artists of that period (Alexander Calder, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, …) and thereby able to nourish her research on the most experimental of the artistic 'avant-gardes'. She started working alongside Marcel Duchamp, and then worked with artists as different as the composer David Tudor, the dancer Merce Cunningham and her friends from the Nouveaux Réalistes movement. Her works, essentially kites, composed of light material and recycled objects, are both heteroclite and unexpected. Jackie Matisse’s sensitive, free-minded, lush world is perfectly described by the artist herself: 'My artistic activity enabled me to explore the elements and to indulge in my fascination with space, movement and chance, either in the air or below water. Watching and making the kites fly brought me a feeling of freedom, a means of collaborating with others and with nature, and an open door to the immensity of life through my vision. " (from the publisher's web site).
OCLC: 854991693
Price: $20.00