Marc DEVADE (1943-1983) - Lot 218

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Marc DEVADE (1943-1983) - Lot 218
Marc DEVADE (1943-1983) Paradis n°2, 1981 Acrylic on canvas, signed, titled and dated twice on reverse Slight indentation top left 116 x 155 cm Provenance: Catherine Millet and Jacques Henric collection Marc Devade (1943-1983) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Supports/Surfaces group, a collective that explored the relationship between material, color and support, in order to deconstruct the fundamental elements of the painting. Influenced by both Maoist thought and the philosophy he studied, the self-taught artist sought to free painting from all representational constraints. His work Corpus V (1966) fully embodies this ambition: stripes and discreet chevron patterns subtly refer to geometric abstraction, yet cohabit freely with figurative elements. For Devade, painting is at once a material, existential and ideological experience. He theorizes about this in several essays. However, beyond this intellectual reflection, his work is distinguished by a great poetic sensitivity: forms and colors become an autonomous language. Marked by illness, he found in painting a way of expressing the failure of words in the face of suffering, making his work inseparable from his biography. His final canvases, such as Paradis n°2 (1981), from the Écho des lumières series, mark a return to oil painting after several years of material experimentation. These works use the same motif in subtle variations, composed of a dense material, sometimes crossed by translucent light, giving the whole a floating, undulating movement. They are an extension of a creative process imbued with the artist's emotions, manifested in this dialogue between geometric order - here marked by an axis of symmetry - and the movement of uncertain surfaces. Selected bibliography: Marie-Hélène Grinfeder, Les années Supports Surfaces. 1965-1990: Des voies analogues, Paris, Éditions Herscher, 1991, 432 p.; Karim Ghaddab, Beate Reifenscheid, Stéphanie Gilles (et. al), Devade, cat exp. Tourcoing, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Koblenz, Ludwig Museum, 2003-2004, 143 p.; Marion Daniel, Marc Devade, Artistes ou lettrés? Marc Devade pratiques contemporaines, Brussels, Lienart éditions, 2009, 170 p.
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