From April 12th, 2015, to December 31st, 2015, Palazzo Grassi will host a monographic exhibition of Martial Raysse.
This major show dedicated to Raysse, one of the most important living French painters and winner of the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, will take over the atrium and both floors of Palazzo Grassi. It will be the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist outside of France since 1965 and will be the perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover France’s hidden master and to explore the dedication and proximity between a collector and an artist.
Curated by Caroline Bourgeois in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will bring together more than 300 works from 1958 to the present day - paintings, sculptures, videos and neon works - almost half of which have never been shown to the public (some are in work in progress to be displayed for the first time at Palazzo Grassi). The course of the exhibition, which is non-chonological, will offer a new point of view on the work of Martial Raysse by underlining, on the one hand, the multifaceted nature of his artistic production, and, on the other hand, the continuous dialogue and echo he has established among his works throughout his sixty years of career.