FIAC 2021

For the 2021 edition of FIAC, Galerie Le Minotaure traditionally offers a journey to the heart of modernism in the first half of the 20th century. We will present the works (oils on canvas, sculptures, reliefs, works on paper, photographs) of the gallery’s leading artists, the pioneers of cubism (Fernand Léger), abstraction (Frantisek Kupka), European constructivism (Walter Dexel , Carl Buchheister), their main defenders active in movements such as Concrete Art, Abstraction Creation and New Realities: Auguste Herbin, Étienne Béothy, César Domela, Léon Tutundjian, Georges Valmier…

Among the flagship works of the exhibition, we must mention a gouache from the “mechanical” period by Fernand Léger, a large canvas by Georges Valmier (1930) part of a set commissioned from the artist by his dealer Léonce Rosenberg for its dining room and a 1920 painting by Auguste Herbin which resonates with its reliefs from the period of which he was one of the pioneers in France.

Part of the exhibition will be devoted to relief and collage which became favored forms of expression for artists seeking to renew their practices in the face of the historical and socio-political upheavals of the 1910s. We will notably present a rare relief from the 1920s by Jean Arp, others made by Léon Tutundjian in the spirit of concrete art and by César Domela – an indisputable master of the genre –, as well as collages from the 1920s and 30s by Carl Buchheister, Walter Dexel and Georges Valmier .
We will also present wooden sculptures by the Hungarian Étienne Béothy, notably the Clé des Champs, presented at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1957.

In connection with the exhibition taking place this summer at the gallery: we will present a large group of particularly accomplished gouaches with exceptional provenance by Frantisek Kupka, representative of the different periods of his work.