Yvon Prével

Yvon Prével (1943-2002) is a French artist, painter and sculptor of bas-relief woven in hessian, listed in the Bénézit Encyclopedia of painting.

From 1968 to 1975, he was the painter of abstract geometry with his inks and pastels. From 1975 to 1993 his painting became volumes or bas-reliefs in burlap, sculpted, nailed, glued, frayed, pleated, and painted. If Vera Szekely is confronted with wood, Klamerus with sisal, Prevel digs the furrow of creation with the bas-relief in jute stretched on wood. The art critic Pierre Brisset describes his work as "unclassifiable", "a work of which the pictures are neither quite paintings nor quite reliefs of thick canvases".

Pierre Restany, art critic in 'The Eternal Wandering of the Gaze' for his 1986 exhibition at the Galerie l'œil Dense in Paris, writes: 'Prevel, this sober and restrained painting is the painting of the gaze. "'He exhibited in numerous national and international galleries and museums, including in 1971 Galerie Birkdam, Copenhagen, Denmark 1972 Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris 1974 Galerie du Lion, Place des Vosges, Paris 1981 Lynn Kottler Galleries, 33 E, 65th Street, New York, USA 1983 Galerie Muck, Bienne, Switzerland 1987 Galerie Diva, Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie l'Oeil Dense, Paris 1989 1990 Galerie Lainé, Gordes 1996 Galerie Alain Selmersheim, Paris, 1997 1998 Galerie du Square Louvois, Paris, 1997 Museum of Fine Arts, Jinan, China.