Abstraction excentrique

Jean Dewasne, Mathieu Matégot, Nicolas Ionesco, Nino Calos,
Yves Laloy, Yves Millecamps

Consortium Museum, Dijon

From 5 December 2025 to 24 May 2026

Photos : Rebecca Fanuele © Consortium Museum

In homage to Lucy Lippard’s seminal exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery in New York in 1966, ‘Eccentric Abstraction’, curators Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim bring together six artists active in Paris between the 1950s and 1970s at the Consortium in Dijon.

Under the banner of a Frenchified ‘Abstraction Excentrique’, these figures of geometric abstraction—whose fame sometimes faded before returning to vogue—come together for a confrontation of paintings and tapestries, in the tradition of rediscoveries that the Dijon institution has mastered.

Jean Dewasne occupies a central place in this journey. An artist from the North, like his predecessor Auguste Herbin, he brought what the curators call ‘logotype-based geometric abstraction’ to its pinnacle, in perfect resonance with the visual taste of the 1960s design era. This combination of major arts, industrial design and graphic arts earned him international renown.

The exhibition also recalls how the painter boldly applied his theory of flat painting to concave or convex surfaces, such as motorcycle fairings and car bodies.

Curators: Franck Gautherot & Seungduk Kim