Tousled hair, large forehead, cavernous eyes and inquisitive gaze, Simon Hantaï welcomes you in his fierce way to the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
The 1953 photo booth has become a giant portrait surmounted by the six yellow letters of his surname, preceded by a black and white site-specific installation by Daniel Buren.
Hantaï (1922-2008) is the spiritualist who takes you into a whirlwind of squared colors, where white springs from flaws, in a code of painting that he invented, explored, refined, multiplied.
It is the inhabited guide of this "Centennial Exhibition", a meeting of more than 130 works by the artist, many of which have never been exhibited, less poetic than that of the Center Pompidou in 2013 but spectacular and dizzying in its scale in the architecture of Frank Gehry.
As a declination to increasingly complex cases,
he invites the viewer, series after series, to approach and move away to feel the vibration of an often immense canvas.
To compare it...
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