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Gérard Deschamps

Homo Accessoirus

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Sat 11 Apr → Sun 31 May 1998
Gérard Deschamps Homo Accessoirus 1998
Vue de l'exposition Gérard Deschamps, Homo Accessoirus, 1998 © Gérard Deschamps / Adagp, Paris Photo © Clérin-Morin

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

Piled up, draped, knotted or simply left as they are, rags are put to a variety of uses in the work of Gérard Deschamps, who in the early 60s discovered that Japanese rags and other textiles could be used as a natural extension of the abstract painting he was engaged in at the time. 

Under the title Homo Accessoirus, the Fondation Cartier exhibition brings together three tarpaulins of the American Army from 1961 and a series of colorful “mixed packages” inspired by surfing and fluorescent-colored plastic objects, and symbolizing a new sense of color in the world.

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