Jacques Grinberg, Michel Macréau, Maryan, Marcel Pouget: revisiting some artists of the “Nouvelle Figuration”

From 20 November 2014 to 17 January 2015
Jacques Grinberg
French artist (1941 - Sofia, Bulgaria - 2011, Paris). After studying at the Fine Arts school of Tel Aviv (1957—1960), Jacques Grinberg moves to Paris, and exhibits for the first time in Gent,...
Michel Macréau
Michel Macréau (1935-1995) began his career as an illustrator in the Vallauris pottery studios. In the late 1950s, he moved into an old, uninhabited château in the Chevreuse valley near Paris, where...
Maryan
Maryan’s short life (1927-1977) was marked by tragedy. A Polish Jew, he was captured and tortured by the Nazis. He was the only member of his family to survive, narrowly escaping death in a...
Marcel Pouget
Marcel Pouget was born in 1923 in Oran, and died in 1985. Originally an abstract expressionist, Marcel Pouget played a major part in launching the Nouvelle Figuration movement at the end of the 1950'...