Welcome to the FAB-Paris show here in the heart of the Grand Palais Éphémère. An unmissable event for all art lovers. And among the biggest names in the history of art exhibited here, we stopped at one of them, surprisingly less known... Jean-Michel Coulon, spotted by the prestigious Françoise Livinec gallery.

It is here, alongside masterpieces by Claude Viallat, Aristide Maillol and André Marfaing, that we are challenged by these small flat areas of color, this impasto material, this strangely poetic abstraction... Canvases , compared with those of Alain de la Bourdonnaye and Olivier Debré, three friends united by family ties, having invented a new abstract vocabulary on the basis of a devastated post-war Europe. A movement that remained silent for a long time before being recognized many years later under the name of the “Second School of Paris”, reminding us that the History of art is also often a family affair.

Finally here, the work of Jean-Michel Coulon is put back in the spotlight, daring to confront a won over audience. We discover the man who at the time exhibited alongside Braque, Staël, Kandinsky and Rothko. We are finally approaching these paintings, which have remained in the shadows for too long, which have just joined the collections of the Center Pompidou. A knife painting sculpted in the material, superposition games that awaken color, lyrical compositions that invite us to see beyond the geometry of shapes... New York buildings lost in the urban gray, fields seen from the sky , the cobblestones of a Parisian alley on a rainy day...And finally, under the artist's gesture, the pattern fades, even disappears, to leave room only for the essential: the painting.{ 6}

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GRAND PALAIS EPHÈMERE - FAB PARIS
From November 22 to 26, 2023
2 place Joffre, 75007
Wed. to Sat. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. - Thu until 10 p.m. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Price: €30 - TR: €15/25 - Free under 18s
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