FRANÇOIS MORELLET

© ADAGP, Paris 2008 - Photo Frédéric Langel

 

reason and derision

François Morellet - Reason and Derision - is an exhibition that has been put together in close collaboration with the artist, based on works selected from the Würth Collection and from the artist’s own studio, in addition to loans from other collections. The title in itself, with its opposition of these two terms to form an “unnatural couple”, as Morellet puts it, sums up the spirit that has guided the artist’s work for almost fifty years: the serious faculty of “Reason” in constant competition with “Derision”, his glib, frivolous and sometimes insolent side.


To this end, the exhibition aims to explain the strategies that François Morellet has used throughout his career to introduce his surprising form of multiple meaning into concrete art: chance, absurdity, ambivalence, humour, parody and word play.

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