Paris: Shirley Jaffe and León Ferrari at the Centre Pompidou
An American woman meets amiable cruelty
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is showing two new temporary exhibitions from 20 April. In the Galerie d'art graphique and the Galerie du Musée, the abstract art of the American painter Shirley Jaffe can be seen, while the Galerie 0 and the Espace prospectif make room for the art of the Argentinean Léon Ferrari.
April 18, 2022
US-born Shirley Jaffe (1923 - 2016) moved to France in the late 1940s and left much of her life's work to the French state after her death: an extensive collection of her abstract paintings. The exhibition An American Woman in Paris chronologically traces Jaffe's artistic development: Originally beginning with Abstract Expressionism, she turned away from gestural drawing in the 1960s and moved towards geometric forms. The museum complements the exhibited pictures with personal studio notes and further archive material of the artist. The exhibition can be seen from 20 April.
At the same time, the Centre Pompidou is also dedicating an exhibition to the Argentinian artist León Ferrari (1920 - 2013), a contemporary of Shirley Jaffe, entitled Amiable Cruelty. The focus is on Ferrari's impressions of violence, especially at the time of the Vietnam War. In protest against the war, he created the work La civilización occidental y cristiana (Western Christian Civilisation) in 1965. With his work, Ferrari pointed out the barbarism of the Western world and always warned that art embellishes and trivialises violence. He called this mechanism Amiable Cruelty. The artist was known for his conceptual art, collages, paintings and sculptures. Both the Jaffe and Ferrari exhibitions end on 29 August.
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