DANIEL POMMEREULLE - 1977

De l’heure de l’étoile à l’étoile du regard

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Born in 1937 in Sceaux, France. Died in 2003 in  Paris, France.

Daniel Pommereulle , French painter, sculptor, film-maker, performer and poet, has had a unique life and artistic adventure.  

Associated with the "Objecteurs" by Alain Jouffroy in 1965, and linked to the major players on the European artistic and intellectual scene of his time, Daniel Pommereulle forged his own path. In the multiplication of forms, he invented an aesthetic of violence and cruelty, marked as much by his painful experience of the Algerian War as by the legacy of Surrealism and the thought of Antonin Artaud. 

Known for his role as a dandy in Eric Rohmer's film La Collectionneuse (1967), he presented his first object encircled by blades, which gave rise to the famous Objets de Prémonition series (1974-1975). From the 1980s onwards, Daniel Pommereulle forged a new kind of sculpture, "the praise and martyrdom of glass" (Philippe Dagen), using all the powers of the material to combine sharpness and softness, calm and vertigo. 

Two major exhibitions during his lifetime ("Fin de siècle" at the C.N.A.C. Georges-Pompidou in 1975 and the retrospective at the Dole and Belfort museums in 1991) contributed to the growing popularity of his work, one of the most important of the second half of the twentieth century in France, which nevertheless remains secret and little-known. 

A resolutely avant-garde artist, Daniel Pommereulle has also made two films(One more time in 1968 and Vite in 1969).

Artist

DANIEL POMMEREULLE

Year

1977

Materials

Pastel and gouache on paper

Size

19 x 25,5 cm

Edition

-

Gallery

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Christophe Gaillard.

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