2022-01-22
HEY! LE DESSIN - Catalogue Exhibition
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Category: Coffee-table books Collection: Art catalog ("beaux-livres") Edited by Anne Richard Bilingual (French / English) 304 pages 2 papers Hardback and shaped cover 28 x 24.5 cm Published by HEY! PUBLISHING ISBN 978-2-490097-14-2 113 artists, 20 countries. Exhibition catalog Guest curator: Anne Richard (HEY! modern art & pop culture) Musée de La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France. Exhibition from January 22 to December 31, 2022 "After four seminal exhibitions devoted to pop culture (2011, 2013, 2017 and 2019), La Halle Saint Pierre and HEY! modern Art & Pop Culture magazine are teaming up once again to continue their exploration of the alternative art scene. Drawing is honored as a fundamental creative gesture and the possibilities of development it gives rise to. With the exclamation HEY! Le Dessin, the exhibition makes clear from the outset its intention: to summon surprise, curiosity, wonder, rejection, attraction, emotion and anxiety. It makes no claim to exhaustiveness, nor to a history of drawing. The exhibition brings together sixty international artists, as well as a previously unseen collection of Japanese prison art, and preparatory drawings for graffiti art seen in a new light. The exhibition offers a broad view of contemporary aesthetic art, in which the creative energy of the counter-culture is a dual force of proposition and protest. In this exhibition, you'll find the seditious figures of lowbrow art of lowbrow art nourished by the iconography of popular media, the phantasmographies of pop surrealism rediscovering the heritage of the great pictorial traditions, the free tribunes of street art and the "skin-self" of tattooing, the individual and solitary escapes of art brut and the refined, libertarian expressions of a "wild eye". Artistic otherness is presented in all its diversity and complexity as a form of resistance against the impoverishment of our collective imagination." Martine Lusardy, Director of Musée de La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France.
