Simon Hantai - Time Out New York

APRIL 17, 2010

TIME OUT NEW YORK

The French Conceptualist’s paintings are surprisingly gestural, despite the absence of traditional artistic touch.

By Anne Doran

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Simon Hantai - Artnet Magazine

APRIL 19, 2010

Artnet Magazine

PLIAGE

by Joe Fyfe

"In pliage, the painting's canvas surface, previously treated with poetic delicacy, was instead subjected to a methodical violence: scattering blobs of black paint over its face, letting it dry, crunching it up, painting on it more before it was mounted. Most importantly, pliage became a kind of painting method that could be realized with only an inconstant surveillance of the artist's eye. As the art critic Carter Ratcliff put it, Hantaï mixed 'the clarities of vision with the intuitions of touch.'"


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SImon Hantai - Bloomberg.com

MARCH 30, 2010

French Dropout Hantai's Art Goes on Sale in Galleries: Review
By Katya Kazakina


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Eye on Culture: Simon Hantai

THE NEW YORKER

March 29, 2010

Eye on Culture: Martine Fougeron on Simon Hantai

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