Gérard SchneiderSans Titre
1986
Acrylic and collage on paper, laid down on board
Signed
57.09 x 40.55 in ( 145 x 103 cm )
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Certificat

Certificate from the archives Schneider

Provenance

Galleria Michelangelo, Bergamo

Private Collection, Italy 

Galleria Open Art, Prato

Literature

M. Ragon, Schneider, Paris, Angers - Expressions Contemporaines, 1998, p. 303 - 304
R. Bellini, Atelier Cosmopolita - Tradizione ed Avanguardia, Parigi 1900-1970,  Centro Culturale S. Bartolomeo, Bergamo, 2005, p.76

Exhibited

Centro Culturale S. Bartolomeo, Bergamo, 2005

Artwork's description

In 1983, Gérard Schneider undertook a series of large gouaches/acrylics “of astonishing luminosity and mastery” (Loïs Schneider) for his dealer Philippe Trigano. His works will be exhibited during the Fiac at the Grand Palais.

"Paper is a permanence in time that completes itself available and in perpetual evolution, a set of shapes, signs and colored confrontations." Here, the artist creates a composition, where shapes and tones adapt to each other. These lines of colors, which are superimposed, attempt to capture the fleeting moment of the artistic gesture. Black structures the composition by interacting with the dominant orange, the other colors are flamboyant and subtle. Schneider applies all these colors by superposition and in transparency thanks to the glaze technique. The painter also sticks colored metal surfaces that are almost reflective.

Artist's biography

Gérard Schneider is a Swiss painter born in 1896 in Sainte-Croix and died in Paris in 1986. He is an artist who has done all his classics, first trying out the figurative world, still life and even surealism. From the Second World War, he moved towards a style that never left him: abstraction.

Powerful canvases, so-called action paintings where the artist creates in a very spontaneous way, with a gesture of a lively and fleeting brush. Gérard Schneider does not seek to represent something real but rather to bring out intense emotions in the production of his works. Indeed, we find in the abstract compositions, forms and movements specific to the artist, with the use of many colors that meet his taste and which gives him a certain effect that he cannot do without, while giving a richness to his works to bring out a certain sound taste.

A musical will of the touch that we find in the name of his works (indeed, all these pictorial compositions have the name "Opus", (as if he had produced his own music). Let us not forget that he was a musician and devoted many hours to musical improvisation.

Gérard Schneider first shone abroad, before being considered a recognized leader in abstraction in France.

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