Jürg Kreienbühl⎜Maurice et Boulon

The exhibition is focused on the 1960/1970 period of the painter Jürg Kreienbühl (1932-2007) who, after leaving Basel and his native Switzerland, "settles" in the slums, quite numerous at the time in the North-West of Paris (Argenteuil, Colombes, Bezons, Gennevilliers, Carrières-sur-Seine, Nanterre). Setting up his studio in a bus' carcass and then in an old caravan, he paints from nature, both feverishly and meticulously, this suburb in chaos and the social outcasts of the Trente Glorieuses (whose symbol is the business district of La Défense very nearby): Portuguese, Algerian, Gypsies, Poles and French people - all vagrants, scrap merchants, ragmen or workers. Without pathos, moral judgment or theorization. The painting dated 1968 "Maurice et Boulon" (doubtlessly his masterpiece) contains all his art of exactitude that only responds to one rule:  "Neither God nor culture, only bare life". These are Jürg Kreienbühl's words.

April 26 - July 5, 2014