To renew oneself on the rubble

How to say the unspeakable? How to signify the trauma in the face of the unfathomable human cruelty? What if not a cry when you are a survivor or a child of the rubble? At the end of the Second World War (45 million dead including 6 million Jews and more than 200,000 Gypsies), any painting, any art, even, is it still possible? In Caen, the Memorial dedicated to the history of the twentieth century delivers a response - the most radical no doubt - in 75 paintings, drawings and sculptures. Building on his success last year with a first painting exhibition (the only presentation outside the United States of the iconic series that Norman Rockwell produced on the call for freedom launched in 1941 by Roosevelt), the director Stéphane Grimaldi has had the strong and judicious idea of ​​proposing to the Geneva collector Jean-Claude Gandur that he show within his walls the best of the “postwar” part preserved by his rich Foundation.

Bubbling informal art

First observation: in these years 1945-1962, in front of the work of this

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