Pictural Abstraction 1980-Today: The Tangle of Life

This book, published ahead of an exhibition, is devoted to the birth of new conceptions, of a new approach to the evolution of abstraction in painting.

Since the late 1970s, abstraction has no longer consisted of the repetition of gestures viewed as “avant-garde” or embodying the history of the “newness” of the present age. With its new proposals, abstraction has, since the discovery of the Chauvet cave and its primitive murals in 1994, become an element enriching our pictorial heritage. Ab...