The Narrative Figuration

A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States.While in New York pop art offered a fresh perspective on an America in the throes offrenzied change, in Paris French painters and others from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany andIceland also began exploiting images [...]
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A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States.While in New York pop art offered a fresh perspective on an America in the throes offrenzied change, in Paris French painters and others from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany andIceland also began exploiting images that had their origins in advertising, cinema and thepopular press. Grouped under the umbrella term Narrative Figuration, they soon became theuncompromising critics of what was dubbed the consumer society. They were for the mostpart politically committed artists and many of them were actively involved in the politicalagitation that led up to the events of May 1968 in France.Once standard bearers, the Narrative Figuration artists have now been rediscovered bymuseums, which, like the Centre Pompidou, are dedicating increasing numbers of exhibitionsto their work. Thanks to the acquisition of major works, the collection of the FondationGandur pour l'Art in Geneva now provides what is without doubt one of the most exhaustiveselections of works by Adami, Aillaud, Arroyo, Erro, Fromanger, Jacquet, Klasen, Monory,Rancillac, Schlosser, Stampfli, Telemaque and Voss, to name a few.This catalogue includes all Narrative Figuration key works, with commentary and analysis bycurators and art historians specialising in a movement that left an indelible mark on 1960sEurope.