Georges Mathieu. 1948 – 1969

The important works on display thoroughly illustrate the artistic career of Georges Mathieu between 1948 and 1969, twenty years which very well represent the fundamental steps of his creative language. After he founded the Lyric Abstraction movement in 1947 the artist turned his research towards a more explosive gestural art to arrive at a more geometric style in the è60s. According to Mathieu painting is meant as an art of pure passion, free from any formal constraints, which prefers improvisation and spontaneity of sign, refusing stable references and links to defined forms.