Hans Hartung and Art Informel

1 Oct 2019-18 Jan 2020

Overview

Hans Hartung is a renowned figure within Art Informel movement and of gestural abstract painting. The London exhibition examines the origins of Hartung’s work and investigates the discourse between the diverse circle of artists present in Paris during the 50s and 60s. Works by artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi; Hisao Domoto; Jean Fautrier; Toshimitsu Imai; Henri Michaux; Georges Mathieu; Serge Poliakoff; Jean-Paul Riopelle; Gérard Schneider; Pierre Soulages; Wols and Zao Wou-Ki, will be presented with the aim to elucidate the artistic relationships which embraced tachisme and lyrical abstraction. The main section of the display focuses on works by Hartung from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, tracking the evolution of his particular visual language to reveal an artist who was continually striving for the unfamiliar and the original.