FRANCE IN THE 80S AND 90S + STREET ART (LIVE)

In France in the 1980s and 1990s, artistic production production was abundant, reflected in various currents: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus and Fluxus, whose foundations had been theorized since 1960, a return to free or narrative figuration. These artistic productions, diverse in inspiration and form seem to find common ground in the new freedom of expression of expression in their subjects and mediums. César's compressions, transgressive in the 1960s, have now been are now accepted as sculptures, and appreciated as much for their for both their plastic qualities and their value as material testimony to the society the society in which they were produced, in this case cans of common beverage cans (lot 5). The recovery of materials diverted from their original use is also at the heart of Albert Féraud's by Albert Féraud, who gives discarded objects a sculptural dignity sculptural dignity (lot 6). Erro's reuse approach exploits and combines and combines characters and figures, real or fictitious and figures, real or fictional, that populate our popular culture. These unexpected confrontations sometimes give rise to new meanings, which the which the artist leaves to the viewer's appreciation (lots 7 and 8). Figuration, once relegated to an outdated form of painting, is now back artists, including Robert Combas (lot 1) and Jean-Charles Blais Jean-Charles Blais (lots 3 and 4) in a contemporary form of "free figuration". "free figuration". From this freedom of form comes freedom of practice, with the beginnings of Street Art in the 1980s. These urban artists, whose recognition was rapid and popular, soon abandoned the street return to the canvas, like Mr.Chat (lots 11 to 13) or Jonone, who delivers or Jonone, who delivers compositions that owe as much to popular culture as much to popular culture as to lettrism and grand abstraction (lot 10).