Sans-Titre, 2005

Pierre Buraglio   Master Artists

Pierre Buraglio's work was one of those which changed the landscape of contemporary French art in the 1960s, during the period of emergence of the Supports / Surfaces group. Close to Claude Viallat, Vincent Bioulès, Michel Parmentier and Daniel Buren, Pierre Buraglio is a protagonist in the crisis of the easel painting during this period. Socially engaged, he participated in the popular workshop of Beaux-Arts in Paris, during the events of May 1968. Painter without brush, Pierre Buraglio uses various objects whose pictorial dimension he reveals, such as windows or blue Gauloises packages. From 1976, a monographic exhibition presented the work of Pierre Buraglio at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, then at the Musée de Grenoble in 1979 and at the Center Georges Pompidou in 1983. Continuing to question the foundations of practice of painting, the artist integrates figuration into his approach from the 1980s. Since then his work has developed beyond the opposition between abstraction and figuration to question the relationship between painting and image, form and meaning, or still presence and memory. In 2008, he participated in the exhibition Traces du sacré at the Center Georges Pompidou. Among the many exhibitions of the artist in recent years, we can cite the Fabre Museum in Montpellier in 2009, the Fine Arts Museum in Lyon in 2010, or the MACVAL in Vitry sur Seine in 2014. Pierre Buraglio is also intervened for several public commissions and architectural projects such as the Cité de la Musique in Paris with Christian de Portzamparc in 1991. His work has been widely exhibited abroad in recent years, in Geneva, Los Angeles and New York in particular.