until Saturday January 03 2015

Galerie Perrotin
T : +1 (212) 812 2902
909 Madison Avenue & 73rd Street
10021 New York
United States

“In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault

Galerie Perrotin, New York is pleased to present a collection of works by Claude Rutault, the artist’s first solo exhibition in America following four-decades of prominent and influential practice in France.

Rutault’s work, beginning with a 1974 show staged at the office of a Parisian psychoanalyst, has
consistently approached painting as a social practice embedded in the living relationships between artwork, artist, gallery, collector, museum and auction house. The present exhibition features twenty de-finition / methods, including early works such as “positive / negative 2” 1975 and “formats at the limit 2” 1974 (shown at the artist’s studio during a residency at PS1, New York in 1979), as well as three new pieces: “charity begins with others” 2014, “the exhibition” 2014 and “suicide-painting 11” 2014.