François Morellet
| Type | Male Artist |
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| Associated person(s) |
Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) Horacio Garcia-Rossi Julio Le Parc Francisco Sobrino Joël Stein Jean-Pierre Vasarely |
| URLs | Wikipedia (german) Institutions/museums Réinstallations, Centre Pompidou, 2011 (French) Youtube This short film follows François Morellet as he tours his remarkable exhibition DASH DASH DASH at Blain|Southern Berlin for the first time. Document Pages: 9, 11, 12, 31, 33, GRUPPI STRANIERI - GRAV, - François Morellet, Julio Le Parc (Italian) |
| Awards | |||||
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| 2012 | Komtur des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication | Paris | ||
| 2008 | Preis Peter C. Ruppert für Konkrete Kunst in Europa | Stiftung Peter C. Ruppert – Sammlung Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945 | Würzburg |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Solo exhibition | 2016 | François Morellet. 1970 - 2016 | Galerie m | Bochum | |
| Solo exhibition | 2016 | François Morellet | Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst | Unna |
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| Monography | 2003 | Ein Buch, in dem es nichts zu sehen gibt, Über Kunstwerke, die nichts sagen wollen | François Morellet | 3-931876-49-7 | Mainz | |||||||
| Monography | 2008 | Swiridoff | Francois Morellet · Vernunft und Ironie | 978-3-89929-145-2 | Sylvia Weber, Pierre Hugel, Peter van Etten |
Died
Stirbt 2016 in seinem Geburtsort Cholet.
Research and teaching
Paris, France
First solo exibition of Morellet at Creuze Gallery.
Exhibitions
Paris, France
He create the GRAV "Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel" with Horacio Garcia Rossi, Julio Le Parc, Joël Stein, Francisco Sobrino et Jean-Pierre Yvaral.
Projects
Paris, France
Foundation of the group GRAV (with Julio Le Parc, Jean-Pierre Vasarely, Francisco Sobrino, Joel Stein and Horacio Garcia-Rossi)
Education
Paris, France
Morellet arbeitete zunächst von 1948 bis 1975 im Betrieb seiner Eltern. Während dieser Zeit beschäftigte er sich erst autodidaktisch mit der Malerei, bevor er sich auch von einem Maler unterrichten ließ.
Born
Cholet, France
François Morellet wurde 1926 in Cholet, Département Maine-et-Loire, geboren.
Places of work / studios
Cholet / Paris, France
is a painter, engraver, sculptor, and light artist associated with Minimalism and Conceptual Art, as well as geometrical abstract art. Born in Cholet, Morellet taught himself to paint while working for his father’s company. In 1950, he created his first abstract works, and held his first solo show at Galerie Creuze in Paris.
Cited: artnet wd.wa. URL: http://www.artnet.com/artists/fran%C3%A7ois-morellet/biography January 13, 2016
In the 1960s, Francois Morellet joined Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (Visual Art Research Group, or GRAV), an experimental group that made installations using non-traditional art materials. Morellet rejected the idea of the individual genius-artist and adopted a stance that artists are facilitators. “By the early Sixties, my friends in the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel and I had become convinced that the age of painting, of canvases and sculptures had come to an end, over forever,” Morellet explains. “We were passionate about modern materials that hadn’t yet been ‘polluted’ by traditional art. We particularly liked anything that could produce movement or light.” Working primarily in neon, which appealed to Morellet because it combines line, light, and, when blinking, movement, Morellet gave his enigmatic pieces incongruous titles, using puns and palindromes, to keep them from appearing too solemn.
Cited: Artsy wd.wa. URL: https://www.artsy.net/artist/francois-morellet-2 January 13, 2016
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L'Avalanche | 1996 | François Morellet | |
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Néon dans l’espace | 1969 | François Morellet | |