LE TABLEAU, French abstraction and its affinities, Curated by Joe Fyfe at the Cheim and Read Gallery, New York June 24--September 3, 2010

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Notes

1. This is not the place for an exhaustive list of these shows and articles, which will need to be drawn at some point if someone is to look seriously into the history of this steady reappraisal. To these names should also be added those of the curatorial team (Armstrong, Lisbon, and Melville) of the Wexner Center of Columbus, Ohio, for their ambitious project in 2001 entitled “As painting: division and displacement,” the Andrew Kreps Gallery for its first exhibition of Martin Barré's work in the US, in 2008, and the more recent efforts by historian Molly Warnock to bring Simon Hantaï's work back into New Yorker's consciousness, at Paul Kasmin Gallery earlier this year.

2. Participating artists were: Richard Aldrich, Martin Barré, Bianca Beck, Jean Fautrier, Louise Fishman, Joe Fyfe, Hans Hartung, Daniel Hesidence, Charline von Heyl, Merlin James, Jonathan Lasker, Jean-François Maurige, Joan Mitchell, Miquel Mont, Katy Moran, Bernard Piffaretti, Serge Poliakoff, Sarah Rapson, Milton Resnick, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Kimber Smith, Cheyney Thompson, Juan Uslé, Claude Viallat, John Zurier.

3. Harold Bloom, American literary critic who maintained that in order to create new works, artist needed to wilfully misinterpret the canon.

4. Louis Khan's National Assembly building in Dhaka, Bengladesh, completed in 1974.

5. “Hans Hartung, the Last paintings—1989”, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, 29 October 2010 to 30 December 2010.

6. This interview was conducted in a series of email exchanges between the months of September and December 2010.