Simon Hantai in a group show at Gagosian, Paris

Gagosian Gallery, Paris

PLIAGE / FOLD When: February 28 - April 19, 2014  When I am folding, I am objective and that allows me to lose myself. -Simon Hantaï "PLIAGE / FOLD" brings together artists from different generations who have explored the act of folding as both concept and formal process. Folding as action, illusion, and symbol has appeared throughout contemporary art and literature, from Simon Hantaï's literal process of folding the canvas, dousing it in oil paint, then unfolding it to reveal inadvertent yet lyrical patterns; to Gilles Deleuze's influential meditation The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988), in which the world is interpreted as an infinity of surfaces twisting through time and space; to Tatiana Trouvé's recent Refoldingssculptures cast from discarded and refolded packing materials.  (Click on the image for details)