Louis Cane
Louis Cane
Born in 1943, Beaulieu sur Mer, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Education
1961 National School of Decorative Art, Nice, France
1962 National School of Decorative Art, Paris, France
Presentation
Like Jean Cocteau's "Beast", Louis Cane is the prisoner of a magical punishment: the tenderness and generosity of the man behind the Beast remains unperceived. Since the 1960s, Louis Cane has had a monstrous career. He began by ravaging the picture, destroying the stretcher and lacerating the canvas to arrive at the Sol/Mur series. Then the ogre began devouring the Old Masters by thrashing all the various styles, from baroque to japonisme via expressionism and Pop. Even the giant that was Picasso never dared embark on such disturbing subjects as the "women playing at doctor", and nor look squarely at the terrors of childbirth. As Louis Cane declares: "to paint these pictures, you need a great deal of maturity and be in excellent mental health".
Rachel Stella
Public collections
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France
Musée national d’art moderne - centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain de Nice, France
Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Frac Alsace, Sélestat, France
Frac Normandie, Caen, France
Musée de Grenoble, France
Collection Institut d’art contemporain, Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
Musée d’art de Nantes, France
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Louis Cane's Persistent Vision
In 1969 Louis Cane's first gallery exhibition (Givaudan, Paris) consisted of a group of unstretched canvases-- sheets in fact, marked only by continuous rubber stamping of his name. He concluded this exercise in personal branding with the insolently tautological series Louis Cane artiste peintre français.
By 1970 Cane was done with youthful irony, inaugurating a genre of cut-out paintings, the toiles découpées, which he would exploit for several years. Like Jackson Pollock or Helen Frankenthaler, Louis Cane painted on unstretched canvas on the ground. But Cane digested the mentor of these artists, Clement Greenberg, as fast as the avant-garde critic appeared in Peinture: cahiers théoriques, the cutting-edge magazine published by Cane and his radical associates.
Cane's incision in the canvas produces flaps which open a space on the wall. This space is not part of the painting yet remains integral to the picture. Thus, his paintings, which interact with both the floor plane and the wall, investigate the space of non-representation (what is cut out) and integrate it within the painting.
Last century, one saw these paintings as the formalist realization of a praxis. Today we are more tempted to admire the economy of means and the visual polyvalence. Back then, Louis Cane questioned pictorial space by considering Chinese painting. To liberate himself from the conventions of Renaissance perspective without renouncing pictorial space it was necessary to start with discourse. Today only the painting endures, and with it the work's persisting pertinence.
Rachel Stella
Louis Cane , Wandhaff
March 09 - May 04, 2024
Louis Cane, Paris
October 29 - December 12, 2020
Louis Cane, New York
October 02 - December 01, 2018
Louis Cane, Paris
December 14, 2017 - February 03, 2018
Vite... 2/3 de chaque, Louis Cane 1966-2016, Wandhaff
June 04 - July 30, 2016
LOUIS CANE, Paris
June 09 - July 23, 2016
LOUIS CANE, Paris
April 09 - May 23, 2015
Louis Cane , Paris
January 25 - March 23, 2014
Louis Cane, Paris
June 08 - July 28, 2012
Louis Cane, Saint-Etienne
February 02 - May 07, 2012
Louis Cane, Paris
December 09, 2010 - January 22, 2011
Louis Cane, Luxembourg
November 11, 2010 - January 08, 2011
Louis Cane, Paris
June 03 - August 01, 2009
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
The Spaces In Between, New York
September 09 - November 07, 2020
At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 26 - July 28, 2020
Spring Paris, Paris
May 18 - July 23, 2020
Guerre(s), Paris
December 18, 2019 - February 01, 2020
Le grand détournement , Paris
June 27 - August 03, 2019
Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, Offsite
February 01 - April 21, 2019
Jacques Lepage. Dossier Supports/Surfaces, Paris
December 19, 2018 - January 26, 2019
The Surface of the East Coast: Différance , New York
July 12 - September 29, 2018
10 YEARS in Luxembourg, Wandhaff
June 02 - August 04, 2018
Inflatable tear, New York
January 23 - February 24, 2018
Solo shows (selection)
2024
Upcoming, Louis Cane, Ceysson & Bénétière
Nymphéas, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
2023
Collection: Color Drops, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2020
Louis Cane. Sculptures, Villa Domergue, Cannes, France
Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2018
Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, USA
2017
Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2016
Résines, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Vite... 2/3 de chaque, Louis Cane 1966-2016, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
2015
Barley Sugar, Galerie T293, Rome, Italy
Galerie Patricia Low, Gstaad, Switzerland
Galerie B.C. Beaubourg, Paris, France
1974, Galerie Torri, Paris, France
2014
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
2013
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
2012
Galerie Marlborough, Monaco
Voyage dans la peinture 1, Mamac, Nice, France
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Saint Etienne, France
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
2011
Galerie Hélène Trintignant, Montpellier, France
La Roche Guyon, France
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
2010
Musée de la tapisserie, Aix en Provence, France
Abbaye Saint André - Contemporary Art center, Meymac, France
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
2009
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Galerie Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2008
Galerie LJ Beaubourg, Paris, France
Galerie Moderne Art, Monaco
Museum of modern Art, Monaco
Pavillon Vendôme, Aix en Provence, France
Galerie Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2007
Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Amini Art, Monaco
Le fond de scène, Université des sciences, Nice, France
Peintures résine sur grillage, Galerie LJ Beaubourg Fair, Paris, France
Galerie Moderne Art, Monaco
Galerie Trintignan, Montpellier, France
2006
Peintures, Galerie Amini, Monaco
Château Musée Grimaldi, les peintures et les véhicules libello-tractés 1995/2005, Monaco
2005
Itineris, a via Crucis for Ofena, Ofena, Italy
Couples enlacés, Ménines et Peintures abstraites sur résine, Galerie Gana, Seoul, South Corea
2004
Peinture de Louis Cane, L'Espal, Le Mans, France
Lapidation, Galerie 14, Paris, France
Peintures, Arkos, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Peintures, Galerie Carnot, Avignon, France
Nativités II,Galerie 14, Paris, France
2003
Photos-peintures, Galerie 14, Paris, France
Peintures - Sculptures, Galerie Marlborough, Monaco
2002
Une femme joue avec des Fly-Tox, Galerie 14, Paris, France
Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Les véhicules libello-tractés, Galerie 14, Paris, France
2001
Les Fleurs, Galerie 14, Paris, France
Aux alentours de Nice, Galerie Marlborough, Nice, France
L'Esprit des couleurs, Galerie 14, Paris, France
2000
Narcisse blessé, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Le Nu contemporain, Palais de l'Europe, Menton, France
Peintures, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourg-La-Reine, France
Nativité, peintures, Galerie 14, Paris, France
1999
Décoration, Musée Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Arkos, Clermont-Ferrand, France
1998
Galerie Le rire bleu, Figeac, France
Galerie Piltzer, Paris, France
1997
Museum of modern Art, Skoplié, Macedonia
Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Galerie Rachelin-Lemarié, Paris, France
Tefaf Maastricht, The Netherlands
Galerie Piltzer, Paris, France
1996
Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France
Galerie Patricia Dorfman, Paris, France
Les anges et véhicules libello-tractés, 1985/1995, Museum of contemporary Art, Issoudun, France
Manoir de Coligny, Geneva, Switzerland
1995
Institut Français, Florence, Italy
Museum of contemporary Art, Cambrai, France
Nymphéas à Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
City Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Museum of modern Art, Takaoka, Japan
Terres cuites, Musée National de la Céramique, Faenza, Italy
Les meubles et objets décoratifs, Galerie 29, New York, USA
1994
Musée de l'Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Institut Français, Galerie Bonomo, Athens, Greece
Institut Français, Bari, Italy
1993
Centre Culturel, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Museum der Bildenden Künste à Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Marianne et Pierre Nahon, Vence, France
1992
La Statengalerie, La Haye, The Netherlands
Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Westfällisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Centre Municipal Loisirs et Rencontres, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Manifeste, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1991
Musée Municipal de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain
Fondation Deutsch Belmont, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Art-Concept, Nice, France
Galerie Bjorn Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Sculptures, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
1990
Nymphéas, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany
Musée Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Exposition chez Robert Skalli, Fondation Fortant de France, Sète, France
Casa del Monte, Madrid, Spain
1989
Sculptures, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
Ménines, Galerie Haranobu, Okada, Japan
1988
Crucifixions, Galerie Gill Favre, Lyon, France
Sculptures, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France
Peintures, Galerie de la Gare, Bonnieux, France
1987
Une vue d'ensemble de dix ans de peinture, figurative et abstraite, les inédits de Louis Cane, Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France
1986
Peintures et sculptures, Galerie Brompton, London, UK
Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany
1985
Déluges, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Sculptures, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
1984
Carnifex, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1983
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
1982
Léo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Toiles figuratives, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
1979
Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf ; Munich, Germany
1978
Kunsthalle de Bielefeld, Germany
1977
Léo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
National museum of modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Saint-Damien parle à Saint-François, Dokumenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1976
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Museum of contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
1972
Sol/Mur, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Galerie Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
1971
Galerie Templon, Paris, France
1969
Galerie Givaudan, Paris, France
Group shows (selection)
2023
Onomatopée, Huberty & Breyne, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Mori no Iro, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
2021
Collection Exhibition, National museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2020
Printemps , Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2019
Back To Simple Radical Gestures - The Supports/Surfaces Movement: Within And Around, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Unfurled: Supports/ Surfaces 1966-1976, curated by Wallace Whitney, MOCAD, Detroit, USA
La source, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
2018
Monet's Legacy, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art, Hiroshima city Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Inflatable Tear, Ceysson & Bénétière, USA
Jerry, Show Me Love!, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Is this how men live? The Maeght Foundation Collection, Foundation Maeght, Saint-paul-de-vence, France
2016
Recto verso, Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy
Passages. Vers une abstraction habitée, Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les sables d'Olonne, France
2015
France-Italie, Palazzo delle Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Supports/Surfaces…et après, Abbaye de Beaulieu en Rouergue, France
Arts et Textiles, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
2014
Supports/Surfaces is alive and well, Galerie Cherry & Martin, Los Angeles, USA
Supports/Surfaces, Galerie CANADA, New York, USA
Supports/Surfaces, curated by : Wallace Whitney, Reed College, Portland, USA
2013
Bonjour Mr Matisse, Mamac, Nice, France
2012
Voyage dans la peinture 1, Mamac, Nice, France
2007
Le fond de scène, Université des Sciences, Nice, France
2002
Supports/Surfaces, Galerie Dorsky, New York, USA
Les Années 70: L'Art en cause, Museum of contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
2001
L'Esprit Supports/Surfaces, Musée d'Histoire du Shaanxi, Xi'An, Shaanxi, China
2000
Supports/Surfaces, travelling exhibit : Museum of contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brasil; Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
1999
Les Années Supports/Surfaces, travelling exhibit : Culture House, Namur, Belgium ; Museum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, Poland ; Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy ; Taidemuseo, Porl, Finland
Le Seuil de Peinture, Centre d'exposition "Della Rocca Paolina", Perugia, Italy
1998
Supports/Surfaces, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1995
With Daniel Dezeuze and Claude Viallat, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France
1993
Supports/Surfaces, travelling exhibit in Japan
Musée Denys Puech, Rodez, France
1991
Supports/Surfaces, Museum of modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France
Supports/Surfaces, Galerie Le Chanjour, Nice, France
Galerie d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, France
1990
Supports/Surfaces, Château de Chambord, France
1979
Museum of modern Art - A.R.C., Paris, France
1972
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
1970
1970
Vision 70, Perpignan, France
Rencontres, divers lieux, Limoges, France.
100 artistes dans la ville, exposition en plein air et en salle, Montpellier, France.
De l’unité à la détérioration, galerie Ben doute de tout, Nice, France.
1969
SIGMA 5: école de Nice, musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France.
Exposition en plein air au square de Palavas, ABC Productions, Montpellier, France.
Salle rouge pour le Vietnam, musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
La peinture en question, musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France.
1968
Dossier 68, Nice, France.
1966
Hall des remises en question, Nice, France.
2006
Louis Cane, Peintures 1963-2005 , Editions de la Différence, Galerie 14, Paris
1994
Curator Dominique Dupuis-Labbé, Les Nymphéas et Louis Cane , Réunion des Musées Nationaux
1991
L. Cane, Résistance de l'accélérateur vertical, Galerie d'Art et d'Essai, Paris
Marie-Hélène Grinfeder, Les Années Support-Surface
1990
Ph. Sollers Louis Cane peintre français, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris
A. Hindry Royer Louis Cane le grand bain de la peinture
Ph.Certeron, "Les floralies de Louis Cane", Le Nouvel Observateur, 1990
1985
J. Henric, Le déluge étendu jusqu'à la peinture, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
P. Cabanne, "Trois fois Cane", Le Matin, December 19th 1985
1984
D. Abadie, "Louis Cane, entretien", Beaux-Arts Magazine, n°9, January 1984
1983
Interview with L. Cane and C. Saint-Jacques, Paroles sur l'Art Moderne, Saint Paul, Fondation Maeght
M. Braudeau, "Louis Cane : la peinture et la loi", Art Press International, n°70, May1983
Ch. Bertaux, "De la sidération", Peintures, Cahiers Théoriques, n°16/17, March 1983
1982
M. Braudeau, "Louis cane", L'Express , January 1982
1977
L. Cane and M. Pleynet, La feinte de la vue, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
1976
Louis Cane, Le Métier de Peintre, l'Espace du corps, à propos de deux tableaux , Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal
1972
M.Pleynet, Quelques problèmes de la peinture moderne : Louis Cane , Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1970
M. Devade and D. Dezeuze, Les Toiles systématiquement tamponnées de Louis Cane & Notes sur un peintre opérant dans de beaux draps, Galerie Daniel Templon