Description :

Bringing together some 120 paintings, objects and films, this exhibition has been conceived as an exploration into the sources of the figurative renewal which left its mark on the Parisian art scene in the 1960s.
Narrative figuration has never been a proclaimed movement as such. It is born from the effect of the art critic Gérald Gassiot-Talabot and the painters Bernard Rancillac and Hervé Télémaque who, in July 1964, at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris together organised the exhibition “Mythologies quotidiennes”. At the same time when Pop Art was triumphing at the Biennale de Venise (the Grand Prix of painting was attributed in June 1964 to Robert Rauschenberg) and making its way into Europe, the exhibition “Mythologies quotidiennes” reunited the artists who, just like their American counterparts, placed contemporary society and its images at the heart of their works. Among them are recognised Arroyo, Bertholo, Bertini, Fahlström, Klasen, Monory, Rancillac, Recalcati, Saul, Télémaque, Voss