Artists

Lynn Chadwick

Press release

Curator: Matthieu Poirier

“Hypercycle” is an exhibition presented across three continents in three chronological chapters. It traces the artist’s career, with “Scalene” as the first chapter, showcased simultaneously at Perrotin in Paris and at the Hôtel de Sully by the Centre des monuments nationaux.

Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) was one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century, alongside Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, and Louise Bourgeois. “Hypercycle,” proposed by art historian Matthieu Poirier, is a series of exhibitions at several sites across three continents from 2024 to 2026, with three chapters, each tracing a part of the artist’s career. The first chapter begins on October 12, 2024 in Paris, at the Centre des Monuments Nationaux–Hôtel de Sully and Perrotin. It brings together sixty key works produced between 1947 and 1962, a time when the artist defined his unique approach and achieved international recognition. Lynn Chadwick’s sculptures are held in some 150 public collections worldwide, and this is the first time such an extensive selection of his work has been shown in France since his exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1957. The second chapter covers his mature period, from 1963 to 1979, and will take place in New York in 2025. The third chapter, focused on his late work, from 1980 to 1996, will be held in Asia in 2026. A monograph is forthcoming in 2025, providing a full overview of Chadwick’s career and offering various perspectives on his work.