Daniel Dezeuze

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Born in 1942 in Alès, France, Daniel Dezeuze was one of the founding members of the Supports/Surfaces group in the 1970s. His work seeks to explore and question the concepts that underpin painting, galleries and space. The artist appropriates a wide variety of techniques, offering a reinterpretation of American art, both abstract and minimalist, while constantly experimenting with what are seen as basic materials: net, metal gauze, wood, fabric and metal.





VUE DE DOS, IMAGES À CONTRE-COURANT – group exhibition



This exhibition seeks to question the subversive power of anonymity implied by the principle of “anti-portrait” embodied by the representation of someone from behind, “vue de dos”. The exhibition organized by the Namur cultural space, the Delta, takes a look at current phenomena such as “selfies” on social networks, facial recognition on surveillance devices, as well as the very recent wearing of a  sanitary mask, that has redefined our perception of public spaces.


From September 26 to January 3, 2021

Le Delta, Avenue Fernand Golenvaux, 18 - 5000 Namur, Belgium

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Mouvement Supports/Surfaces : retrouver l’économie des gestes simples – Group show



As part of the Croisements 2019 Festival organized by the French Institute in Beijing, the Meymac Center for Contemporary Art presents the first exhibition of the Supports / Surfaces movement in China. This group of artists, who emerged in France in the mid-1960s, revolutionized the visual arts through a new use of materials. Their project: to free the pictorial art from the historical and cultural straitjacket represented by the canvas.


FESTIVAL CROISEMENT, BEIJING, CHINA From 21/05/2019 to 20/08/2019

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Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976 – group show



The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will present the first exhibition in the Midwest and most comprehensive show to date of the French art movement Supports/Surfaces. This group of fourteen artists, along with several others who were closely affiliated, lived and worked in the south of France, producing artwork marked by an interest in materiality, a lyrical use of color and expansive ideas of what constitutes a painting. French society was undergoing social protests and upheavals in the 1960s that mirrored the civil rights and anti-war movements in the USA. The Supports/Surfaces artists sought new forms and methods to reflect their times: standard art materials were dropped in favor of homespun non-art materials (bed sheets, rope, dish rags) and figuration was replaced by loose, permeable grids that hinted at a more democratic method of art-making and a proposal for humane society.

Curated by Wallace Whitney


MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT, DETROIT, USAFrom 01/02/2019 to 21/04/2019

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Daniel Dezeuze, Une rétrospective – solo show



From October 28, 2017 to January 28, 2018, the museum of Grenoble will devote a retrospective to Daniel Dezeuze’s work. Organized in collaboration with the artist, it will present more than 50 years of creation, from his early works of the middle of the sixties to his most recent sculptures, showing the artworks that participated to the Supports/Surfaces movement.
Founding member of Supports/Surfaces in 1970, Daniel Dezeuze and his group questions the painting’s future and its role in the capitalist society. 
 
Thanks to a SHARP selection of artworks showing the main steps of Daniel Dezeuze’s work, this retrospective presents the complexity and the consistency of his art OVER more than five decades. It will highlight (SANS S° its importance in the FRENCH context OF VISUAL ART and also art’s capacity of moving and expanding our world’s comprehension. 

Curators : Guy Tosatto, director of the Musée de Grenoble and Sophie Bernard, curator in charge of Modern and Contemporary art collections


MUSEE DE GRENOBLE, FRANCEFrom 28/10/2017 to 28/01/2018

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Supports/Surfaces, Les origines – group show



The exhibition Supports/Surfaces: the Beginning, 1966–1970 shows which process took over the course of the 1960s up to the creation of the group. In order to gain an understanding of the short-lived but important Supports/Surfaces movement, one must plunge oneself into the years of research, confrontations and oppositions that led up to it. These four years were a time of intense and wonderful artistic effervescence in the midst of a period marked by the social and political upheavals of the events of May 1968. An examination of this history from its origins enables us to gain a new perspective on the movement by focusing on these years marked by the jubilation of artists in the midst of reinventing their work from the ground up.

The exhibition brings together major works of this period, some which have not been shown since that time, and provides insight into the profound questioning that lay behind the creations over the course of these key years: the deconstruction of painting, confrontation with Nouveau Réalisme (“New Realism”) and the certain death of painting, external exhibition, the placement of works in space, the importance of the object and its manipulation.
With Avec André-Pierre Arnal, Vincent Bioulès, Louis Cane, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, Toni Grand, Bernard Pagès, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, André Valensi et Claude Viallat.


CARRE D’ART DE NIMES, FRANCEFrom 13/10/2017 to 31/12/2017

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Daniel Dezeuze/Albert Marquet. Mise en regard – group show



As part of the season « Paysage Bordeaux 2017 », the musée des Beaux-Arts organizes temporary exhibitions to reveal the interest of its collections. This third exhibition is confronting Albert Marquet’s fragile works on paper to Supports/Surfaces French pionneer Daniel Dezeuze’s drawings never shown until now.


MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BORDEAUX, FRANCEFrom 28/09/2017 to 07/01/18

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« The Surface of the East Coast. From Nice to New York »Groupshow



‘The Surface of the East Coast. From Nice to New York’ will be gathering more than 70 works of artists from the Supports/Surfaces movement and from the New York new art scene, aiming to establish a dialogue between two different countries and generations,by showing how they can echo,feed on each other,and today tackle new formal issues and trains of thought.

Curator : Marie Maertens

With Justin Adian – André-Pierre Arnal – Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke – Vincent Bioulès – Anna Betbeze – Joe Bradley – Sarah Braman – Pierre Buraglio – Louis Cane – Marc Devade – Daniel Dezeuze – Noël Dolla – Adam Henry – Jacob Kassay – Lucas Knipscher – Erik Lindman – Landon Metz – Sam Moyer – Bernard Pagès – Jean-Pierre Pincemin – Patrick Saytour – Gedi Sibony – André Valensi – Claude Viallat.

 A bilingual catalogue will be published by Editions cercle d’art on the occasion of the show.


LE 109, NICE, FRANCEFrom 6/23/2017 to 10/15/2017

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Le prieuré de Serrabona à Boule d’Amont



Within the framework of the IN SITU show, bringing together landmarks and contemporary art, in the French region Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Daniel Dezeuze presents in the church of Boule d’Amont his grid works nefs (2010, 2011).
Set on the ground, alone or within an ensemble, the volume of these grids inhibites the space based on the concept of cutting outs and empty forms. The architectural reference in the grids seems to reflect the structure of the church.


BOULE D'AMONT (30km from Perpignan), FRANCEFrom 06/18/2016 to 09/18/2016 

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Daniel Dezeuze, Drawing Room 015



One of the founding fathers of the Supports/Surfaces artistic movement, Daniel Dezeuze is well know as one of its major theoricians. 

Just as his poetry, full of humour and wit, the artist’s drawing practice offers him a way to consider the world with more lightness.

Beyond showing how great a drawing artist is Daniel Dezeuze, the new show of the FRAC seeks to highlight the artist’s incredible freedom to think.


FRAC LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 10/07/2015 to 12/05/2015  






Robinson, ou la force des choses(Group Show)



From January 28th to May 27th 2012

L’exposition « Robinson, ou la force des choses » réunit trois artistes issus du groupe Supports/Surfaces ayant entretenu un lien privilégié avec la région niçoise. Les rencontres et expositions réalisées sur le territoire demeurent d’ailleurs fondamentales dans leur parcours artistique. Le MAMAC se devait de revenir sur leurs pratiques respectives. (…)


MAMAC, Nice

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