Artists

Bernard Réquichot

Press release

Despite a meteoric career (less than ten years), Bernard Réquichot (1929-1961) was a major protagonist of the 1950s Paris art scene. Marked by "Surrealism's second wind", his production around 1955 is in line with the gestural and textural abstraction that occupied a preeminent place at the time.

This chronological retrospective features over 60 works: mainly paintings, his famous Reliquaries, and some impressive collage (his "chosen papers") and drawings demonstrating strong visual impact.

Marked by "Surrealism's second wind", his production around 1955 is in line with the gestural and textural abstraction that occupied a preeminent place at the time. Mixing the material with a knife, weaving inextricable networks and allowing "graphic traces" to invade the canvas, Réquichot seems to push painting to its absolute limits. His Reliquaries and his suspended rolled canvases present exacerbated expressions of this.