About

Based in Nîmes in the south of France, Claude Viallat developed an artistic protocol over 60 years ago he has stayed faithful to ever since. Rejecting the notions of “picture”, “figuration” and “narration”, he has been repeating the same geometric form, suggesting a cell or small bone, on found fabrics with no stretchers and no frames. A pioneering figure in the Supports/Surfaces movement and its quest to overthrow the codes of painting, Claude Viallat has today established himself as one of the most radical painters of his generation.

The Templon exhibition offers a retrospective look at his …