Jean DuBuffet Archives

DUBUFFET X GIACOMETTI

30 April 2024 • Mark Westall

Nahmad Contemporary is to open DUBUFFET X GIACOMETTI, a long overdue tête-à-tête between two of the most significant artists of the 20th century

Phillips X Presents Different Throws of Dreams: Aboudia x Dubuffet

2 August 2022 • Mark Westall

Phillips is pleased to present Different Throws of Dreams: Aboudia x Dubuffet. In collaboration with Aboudia, this selling exhibition will present… Read More

Google forces out 10-ton Jean Dubuffet sculpture

2 August 2022 • Mark Westall

Google wants a new head office in Chicago and what Google wants it gets so even though the Dubuffet sculpture weighs ten tons and it’s been there since 1985 it’s gotta go.

On the Nature of Things, a group show tracing the key moments of Assemblage

25 July 2022 • Mark Westall

Andrew Kreps Gallery to present On The Nature of Things, a group exhibition that surveys and traces key moments in… Read More

The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in early August

1 August 2021 • Tabish Khan

The top shows to see from Deptford to Camden.

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet in over 50 years

3 May 2021 • Mark Westall

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet in over 50 years

3 December 2020 • Mark Westall

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years

Monumental work by Jean Dubuffet to be installed at Smithson Plaza

12 August 2020 • Mark Westall

This September, Jean Dubuffet’s iconic 13ft sculpture Tour aux récits is to be installed at Smithson Plaza.

NEWS

Christie’s Vice and Virtue featuring Kaws, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger

14 May 2020 • Mark Westall

Christie’s continues to expand its online-only auction calendar. VICE and VIRTUE, the latest in a series of thematic online auctions from the Post-War and Contemporary Art department.

Writings on the Wall examines the significant influence of ancient and contemporary graffiti on the practice of a group of mid-twentieth-century artists

17 May 2019 • Mark Westall

Writings on the Wall examines the significant influence of ancient and contemporary graffiti on the practice of a group of mid-twentieth-century artists Brassaï, Vlassis Caniaris, Jean Dubuffet, Manolo Millares, Antoni Tàpies and Cy Twombly

100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band

4 January 2019 • Mark Westall

The release of 100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band as a tribute to the anniversary of the You Are Here opening

NEWS

Jean Dubuffet A Festival of The Mind

30 May 2018 • Mark Westall

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Dubuffet sought to create work which shunned traditional notions of beauty and favoured immediate forms of expression.

Before Jean-Michel Basquiat there was Jean Dubuffet

2 August 2017 • Mark Westall

Pace Gallery will present the first major exhibition of Jean Dubuffet’s work at its gallery in London, made even more remarkable by the fact that 2017 marks the fiftieth year that Pace has represented Dubuffet.

GO SEE: A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense A Portrait of Robert Fraser, Curated by Brian Clarke

7 February 2015 • Staff

There is a great eclectic exhibition at Pace London titled ‘A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’that takes as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser, curated by Brian Clarke.

See Damien Hirst’s Cabinet of Curiosities online @Paddle8

22 September 2014 • Mark Westall

I love natural history and have since my first visit at age five to the City Museum in Leeds—it’s the immediate visual impact of it, the wonder, you just can’t help but go ‘wow’!

Art Previews

The Other Art Fair Artist Preview #6 JBC

12 November 2012 • Mark Westall

Then I will have a stand in a Street Market in the north of France (Braderie de Roubaix), before flying to Colombia, my wife’s country, where I’m planning to partner with locals street artists.