Press release

« L’art de la rencontre » [The Art of Encounter] brings together works by major artists of the 20th and 21st centuries: Baya, Sidival Fila, Camille Henrot, Anish Kapoor, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Joan Mitchell, François Morellet, Judit Reigl and Ugo Rondinone. Although most of them may have never met in their lifetime, all their works, in their own way, question our vision of and our relationship with the world, in the midst of an elusive nature. Produced between the mid-1960s and 2024, the paintings and sculptures presented here form a mental landscape that echoes Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1908-1961) phenomenology of perception, which Lee Ufan invokes in his writings to evoke the revolution in seeing that results from this simultaneous interweaving of the world, our gaze and the gaze of the work.