artist/ Viallat

France

Born in Nîmes in 1936. Enters the Beaux Arts in Nîmes. It was here that he met some of the artists with whom he would later found the Supports/Surfaces movement. The founding exhibition took place in 1969 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Claude Viallat’s style is long-lasting, characterized by a system of repetitive mark-making using a “random” form. His first museum exhibition was held in Saint-Etienne in 1974. A wider public discovered his work in 1980 at the CPAC in Bordeaux, followed two years later by a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Hardly a year goes by without an exhibition of his work. In recent years, at the Musée Matisse in Cateau-Cambrésis, in Clermont-Ferrand, Bergamo, Céret, Toulon and Perpignan, at the Château de Villeneuve in Vence, in Biarritz, Nîmes, Castres, Colmar, Hégenheim…