Pierrette Bloch - La peinture par d’autres moyens
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This book, which traces seventy years of his artistic career, is published to coincide with his first retrospective in France, organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole.
The first monograph dedicated to the artist, showcasing all of his characteristic seriousness and humor.
Pierrette Bloch est l’une des artistes européennes les plus renommées de l’abstraction d’après-guerre. Indépendante, elle s’est tournée tout au long de son parcours vers les matériaux pauvres et les motifs réduits qu’elle organise entre ordre et désordre.
Les œuvres de Pierrette Bloch se situent à la convergence d’une multitude d’itinéraires singuliers, utilisant au fil des années aussi bien la peinture, le collage et le tissage, et dans lesquelles les questions de liberté d’expression et d’abstraction sont omniprésentes.
Pour la première fois, une grande rétrospective de son œuvre sera présentée au musée MAMC+ de Saint-Étienne du 19 avril au 21 septembre 2025.
Le catalogue d’exposition, à l’image de l’œuvre de Pierrette Bloch, est protéiforme. Il offre une large place aux reproductions de la centaine d’œuvres présentées au public dans l’exposition (peinture, collage, marouflage, peinture à la plume et au crin de cheval, etc.) mais il apporte également un éclairage original sur la vie et la production de Pierrette Bloch grâce aux regards portés par six auteurs.
Aurélie Voltz, directrice du MAMC+, signe l’introduction de l’ouvrage ; Marcel Cohen, écrivain, s’empare des anecdotes de vie de Pierrette Bloch pour nous livrer un bijou littéraire ; David Quéré, ayant-droit de l’artiste et commissaire de nombreuses expositions dédiées à l’artiste, livre un texte étayé sur ses souvenirs avec Pierrette Bloch. Natalie Adamson et Camille Paulhan, toutes deux historiennes de l’art, proposent deux essais recontextualisant l’œuvre et l’artiste. La contribution de Valérie Mréjen, romancière et plasticienne, s’appuie sur le fonds photographique familial de l’artiste pour créer une biographie fictionnelle dont les règles du jeu sont à définir.
Un ouvrage monographique où l’on retrouve la gravité et l’humour caractéristique de Pierrette Bloch. Un ouvrage aussi inédit et surprenant que l’exposition.
Pierrette Bloch is one of the most renowned European artists of post-war abstraction. Independent, she has throughout her career turned to humble materials and minimalist motifs, which she arranges between order and disorder.
Pierrette Bloch's works lie at the convergence of a multitude of unique paths, using painting, collage, and weaving over the years, and in which questions of freedom of expression and abstraction are omnipresent.
For the first time, a major retrospective of her work will be presented at the MAMC+ museum in Saint-Étienne from April 19 to September 21, 2025.
The exhibition catalog, like Pierrette Bloch's work, is multifaceted. It gives pride of place to reproductions of the hundred or so works on display to the public in the exhibition (paintings, collages, marouflage, pen and horsehair paintings, etc.), but it also sheds original light on Pierrette Bloch's life and work through the perspectives of six authors.
Aurélie Voltz, director of the MAMC+, wrote the introduction to the book; Marcel Cohen, writer, draws on anecdotes from Pierrette Bloch's life to deliver a literary gem; David Quéré, the artist's beneficiary and curator of numerous exhibitions dedicated to the artist, provides a text based on his memories of Pierrette Bloch. Natalie Adamson and Camille Paulhan, both art historians, offer two essays that recontextualize the work and the artist. The contribution by Valérie Mréjen, novelist and visual artist, draws on the artist's family photo collection to create a fictional biography whose rules of the game are yet to be defined.
A monographic work that reflects Pierrette Bloch's characteristic seriousness and humor. A work as original and surprising as the exhibition itself.
Authors: Natalie Adamson, Marcel Cohen, Valérie Mréjen, Camille Paulhan, David Quéré, Aurélie Voltz
2025
French / English
304 pages
21 x 26 cm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-2-36306-359-5
© Bernard Chauveau
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