A Barbeau at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

07/03/2013 au 09/09/2013

Musée Guggenheim de Bilbao

L’Art en guerre (Art at War), France 1938-1947 is an exhibition of great international and historical significance, appreciated for its remarkable quality. A success in Paris last fall, the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao takes over this exhibition until September 23, in partnership with the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, which originally designed and carried out this exhibition. Just as in Paris, a small section is dedicated to the Automatistes, a group of Québécois among the artists who took part in the profound artistic revolution in the forties, to which some members of the artistic class were socially and politically committed at this period. They are represented by Jean-Paul Riopelle, Fernand Leduc and Marcel Barbeau, who all lived in Paris for several years. Marcel Barbeau’s unfailing commitment to the ideal of liberty, in the arts as in life in general, and the innovative quality of the small watercolor Nadja 2, in which the drips, the splashes and the pattern break down the barriers of the support, largely justify his presence here.

For more information about the exhibition : http://arteenguerra.guggenheim-bilbao.es/fr/