until Monday November 30 2015

Palazzo Grassi
T : +39 0 41 523 16 80
Campo San Samuele, 3231
30124 Venice
Italy

This major show dedicated to Raysse, one of the most important living French painters and winner of the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, takes over the atrium and both floors of Palazzo Grassi. It is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist outside of France since 1965.

Curated by Caroline Bourgeois in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brings together more than 300 works from 1958 to the present day—paintings, sculptures, videos and neon works—almost half of which have never been shown to the public (some are works in progress to be displayed for the first time at Palazzo Grassi). The course of the exhibition, which is non-chronological, offers a new point of view on the work of Martial Raysse by underlining, on the one hand, the multifaceted nature of his artistic production, and, on the other hand, the continuous dialogue and echo he has established among his works throughout his 60 years of career.