Simon Hantaï at Villa Medici, Roma

Villa Medici, Roma

SIMON HANTAI When: February 12 - May 11 2014 From 12 February to 11 May 2014 (opening 11 February 6.30 p.m.-8.30 p.m.) Villa Medici is presenting the first important Italian retrospective dedicated to Simon Hantaï, curated by Éric de Chassey. This exhibition has been devised and realized six years after the artist's death in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, following the exhibition presented there from 22 May to 2 September 2013, which was curated by Dominique Fourcade, Isabelle Monod Fontaine and Alfred Pacquement, former Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre de Création Industrielle. Forty various sized paintings realized between 1958 and 2004 will be displayed in the Grandes Galeries of Villa Medici. The exhibition is divided into two sections linked by a selection of small paintings that helps understanding the artist's itinerary in the 1960s and 1970s. (Click on the image for details)