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A founder and leading member of the Supports/Surfaces group in the 1970s, Claude Viallat has spent the last 50 years exploring the limits of abstract painting through variations around his signature “shape” – a small bone form – reproduced on a wide variety of fabrics and tarpaulins, hung unmounted and unimpeded in space.

With this new exhibition, carefully installed by Claude Viallat himself, the artist unveils a handful of his latest experiments.

In a number of works, the shape, rather than being repeated as an endless sequence, is diluted to the point where it forms large spots of watery …