For its seventh exhibition dedicated to an artist, the Hôtel du Doyenné continues the path traced since its opening in 2018: opening its rooms to the work of major personalities who are, each, pillars of modern or contemporary art. In 2025, it will be Jean Dubuffet. The news was announced this Monday, January 6, on the occasion of the wishes of the mayor of Brioude, Jean-Luc Vachelard.
“It’s a choice that was made very quickly,” confides Thomas Wierzbinski, curatorial director of the Brivadois modern and contemporary art space. Dubuffet represents an angle that had not yet been addressed at the Doyenné: art raw. Hartung, it was abstraction. There, we wanted to return to figuration, but on a treatment which had not been addressed at all. And we are still one of the pillars. French having built our history of art.”
Take the visitor on Dubuffet’s creative journey
And here again, this is an artist with whom the exhibition curator, Jean-Louis Prat, had the opportunity to work. “He did the Dubuffet retrospective at the Maeght Foundation. An exhibition that they worked on together before the artist died suddenly of a heart attack and which opened two months later.” If the works for the 2025 Brivadoise exhibition, which will take place from June 28 to November 2, have not yet all been chosen, the director can nevertheless reveal a clear axis:
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