| Louis Cane | |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France |
| Nationality: | French |
Cane was born in 1943 in Beaulieu sur Mer, France. He is a painter, sculptor and furniture designer.[1] [2]
Louis Cane attended the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice then the Superior School of Decorative arts in Paris in 1961.[3]
He then studied at the Superior School of Decorative Arts in Paris and got his diploma in Interior Architecture.
Cane was a part of the Supports/Surfaces Movement in France that lasted from 1969 to 1972 and co-founded and edited the Peinture, Cahiers Theoriques.[4]
In 1978, he began sculpting again. They consisted of female figures in a traditional style.
Cane focused on the concept of deconstruction of the canvas. His series, Louis Cane artiste peintre français, he continuously stamped his name on a sheet, exploring the idea of personal branding.[5]
By 1970, Cane transitioned into a series of cut-out paintings, the toiles découpées, which he worked with for several years. His process for paintings was much like Jackson Pollock or Helen Frankenthaler, by painting the un-stretched canvas on the ground[6]
He participated in the second and third exhibition of the Supports/Surfaces group at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris.[7] [8]
In 1971, Cane had his first solo exhibition in Paris at Daniel Templon Gallery.[9] Then at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in 1972.
From 1972 to 1972, he produced a series called Sol/Mur as part of the Supports/Surfaces movement.
Until 1975, Cane continued his abstract series. These canvases were un-stretched, spread on the floor, spray painted and folded in half, then cut and staples directly on the wall.
In 1978, Cane went from abstract painting to figuration. He reflected on the history of pictorial forms. He also started integrating sculpture into his practice. The statues were almost exclusively female occasionally appearing in form of burlesque or baroque expressionism. [10]
Cane was also a furniture designer, which is an important part of his artistic creation.
1995
Museum of contemporary Art, Cambrai, France
1991
Musée Municipal de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain[11]
1971
Galerie Templon, Paris, France[9]
2019
Unfurled: Supports/ Surfaces 1966-1976, curated by Wallace Whitney, MOCAD, Detroit, USA[12]
2002
Supports/Surfaces, Galerie Dorsky, New York, USA[13]
1991
Supports/Surfaces, Museum of modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France
1979
Museum of modern Art - A.R.C., Paris, France
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France[14]
Musée national d’art moderne - centre Pompidou, Paris, France[15]
Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain de Nice, France[16]
Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France[17]
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France[18]
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France[19]
Frac Picardie, Amiens, France[20]
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France[21]
Frac Alsace, Sélestat, France [22]
Frac Normandie, Caen, France
Musée de Grenoble, France[23]
Collection Institut d’art contemporain, Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France[24]
Musée d’art de Nantes, France[25]
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France[26]