Sign of change

Shattering the boundaries

Contemporary Art | The exhibition by American artist Steven Parrino at the Gagosian gallery in Paris has taken place against a backdrop of French and Swiss artists from two generations known for their radical approaches : Buren, Mosset, Parmentier and Toroni who, in 66-67, formed the historic B.M.P.T movement, John Armleder, and two patrons of radical experimentation in painting, Simon Hantaï and Martin Barré. Each of them journeys beyond the scope of pictorial subjectivity in different ways, ultimately shattering the boundaries of painting. Such were the differences between traditional painting and this exhibition, that it also shook up the categories. From the punk culture of Parrino, the objective protocols of B.M.P.T., the elegant mayhem of Armleder and the solitary research of Hantaï and Barré, the ensemble is a strange combination of radicalism and mannerism.

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