jean dewasne Exhibitions

The artwork constantly struggles against cultural and sensory alienation; it operates outside the comfort zone.

Jean Dewasne

1940

 

1940

  • Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, two years of architecture

1942

  • Exhibition Galerie Jacquet, Paris

1943

  • Paints his first abstract paintings

1944

  • Exhibition Galerie de l’Esquisse, Paris
  • « Les idées pédagogiques de Klee et Kandinsky », lecture given by Dewasne at the Research Centre, Rue Cujas, Paris

1944 to 1946

  • Participation in the Salons des Indépendants, d’Automne and des Surindépendants in Paris and Linien in Copenhagen, Denmark

1945

  • Lecture « Les problèmes actuels de l’Art Abstrait » at Thorvalsden Museum in Copenhague, Danemark

1946

  • Wins the first Kandinsky Prize, which he shares with Jean Deyrolle
  • Contributes to the creation of the ‘Salon des Réalités Nouvelles’ (New Realities Exhibition), in which he participates until 1948
  • Dewasne is one of the members of the Organising Committee alongside J. Arp, Besançon, A. Delaunay, Jean Deyrolle, A. Gleizes, Gorm and A. Pevsner
  • Participates in the ‘Salon de Mai’
  • 26/02-20/03 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René Abstract paintings by Dewasne, Deyrolle, Hartung, Marie Raymond, Schneider

1947

  • 18/04-17/05 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René, Abstract paintings by Dewasne, Deyrolle
  • 11/07-30/07 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René, Abstract paintings by Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Duthoo, Hartung, Magnelli, Nouveau, Piaubert, Poliakoff, Poujet, Raymond, Reth, Schneider, Vasarely

1948

  • First mural painting « La joie de vivre »
  • 03/01-06/02 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René,  Contemporary paintings and sculptures by Arp, Burchard, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Duthoo, Dias, Domela, Gilioli, Hartung, Jacobsen, Kandinsky, Léger, Dora Mar, Magnelli, Marcoussis, Miro, Piaubert, Picasso, Poliakoff, Raymond, Reth, Rouillier, Schneider, Vasarely, Vulliamy
  • 10/04-22/04 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René and Galerie Tokanten in Copenhague, Danemark : Dewasne, Deyrolle, Gilioli, Hartun g, Piaubert, Poliakoff, Raymond, Schneider, Vasarely
  • 21/05-23/06 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René,  Sculptures by Arp, Calder, Domela, Giacometti, Gonzales, Laurens, Manès, Picasso, Descombin, Gilioli, Lardera, Jacobsen and paintings by Dewasne, Deyrolle, Vasarely
  • 22/10-22/11 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René « Tendances de l’Art abstrait », on the occasion of the 3rd session of the United Nations:  Arp, Bill, Bruce, Calder, R. Delaunay, S. Delaunay, Del Marle, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Domela, Duthoo, Gilioli, Gorin, Hartung, Herbin, Jacobsen, Kandinsky, Kupka, Lardera, Lohse, Magnelli, Mondrian, Mortensen, Pevsner, Piaubert, Poliakoff, Raymond, Reth, Schnabel, Schneider, Servranckx, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely

1949

  • 16/02-16/03 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René,  “Quelques aspects de la peinture présente” : Bloc, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Hartung, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Le Corbusier, Léger, Le Moal, Magnelli, Manessier, Mortensen, Piaubert, Poliakoff, Raymond, Schneider, Singier, Vasarely
  • 08-22/06 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René in collaboration with Galerie Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhague, Danemark : abstract paintings by Dewasne
  • Lecture « Les tendances de l’Art abstrait » in Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhague, Danemark
  • Dewasne wrote « Traité d’une peinture plane » (published in 1972)
  • Illustrations for Lautréamont’s ‘Préface pour un livre futur’ (16 lithographs), published by Sörensen Copenhagen, Denmark

 

‘Dewasne’ exhibition, Denise René Gallery - 1949

1950

 

1950

  • Dewasne founded the Atelier d’Art Abstrait (Abstract Art Workshop) with Edgard Pillet at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.
  • Courses in ‘Painting Technology’ were given there (study of colour chemistry, theory of vision, physiology, colorimetry, problems of plastic technique).
    The studio operated until 1953.
  • Meeting with Daniel Cordier.
  • 13/01-13/02 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René presenting several aspects of contemporary art: Arp, Bloc, le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Estève, Giacometti, Gilioli, Herbin, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Léger, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pevsner, Piaubert, Pillet, Poliakoff, Schnabel, Vasarely, Villon
  • 01/04-01/05 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René : « Espaces nouveaux » Arp, Bloc, Calder, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Gilioli, Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Magnelli, Mortensen, Piaubert, Pillet, Poliakoff, Proweller, Schneider
  • 15/12/50-15/01/51 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René exhibition of artists who have received the Kandinsky Prize: Dewasne 1946, Deyrolle 1946, Poliakoff 1947, Max Bill 1948, Raymond 1949, Chapoval 1949, Mortensen 1950

1951

  • First Antisculptures, lectures in Europe and America, paints ‘Apotheosis of Marat’ (260×900 cm), founds the ‘Espace’ group
  • 15/06-12/07 – Exhibition Galerie Albertine Scarlet, Paris
  • Preface to a future book by Lautréamont, illustrated with 16 colour lithographs by Dewasne, published by Denise René.
  • 15/06-12/07 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery: Formes et couleurs murales (Wall Forms and Colours) Dewasne, Jacobsen, Vasarely
  • 08/12-26/12 – Exhibition at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery organised with the Birch Gallery in Copenhagen, under the patronage of the Association française d’Action Artistique (AFAA)
  • Exhibition Klar Form, Copenhagen, Arp, Bloc, Calder, Le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Léger, Magnelli, Del Marle, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Raymond, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 18/12-30/01/53 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René: works by artists who participated in the Klar Form exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Lecture on ‘The Theoretical Writings of Kandinsky’

1952

  • 10/02-30/02 – Exhibition at Galerie Denise René organised in collaboration with Konsthallen in Helsinki, Finland. Klar Form, Arp, Bloc, Calder, Le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Magnelli, Del Marle, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Raymond, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 10/03-30/03 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery in collaboration with Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm. Klar Form, Arp, Bloc, Calder, Le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle Dias, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Léger, Magnelli, Del Marle, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Raymond, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 03/05-25/05 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery organised in collaboration with the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. Klar Form Arp, Bloc, Calder, Le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle Dias, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Léger, Magnelli, Del Marle, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Raymond, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 13/06-14/07 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery of 12 original tapestries produced by the Tabard workshops in Aubusson: Arp, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Herbin, Kandinsky, Léger, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 30/08-18/09 – Musée d’Art Wallon Liège, Belgium. Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery organised in collaboration with the Association pour le progrès intellectuel et artistique de la Wallonie (Association for the Intellectual and Artistic Progress of Wallonia). Twenty artists from the School of Paris 1951. Klar Form Arp, Bloc, Calder, Le Corbusier, Dewasne, Deyrolle Dias, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Lapicque, Léger, Magnelli, Del Marle, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Raymond, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 14/11-10/12 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery “Diagonale ” Arden-Quin, Arp, Baertling, Bloc, Carlstedt, R. Delaunay, S. Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Domela, Dimitresco, Guevara, Herbin, Istrati, Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Leuppi, Magnelli, Mortensen, Nunez, Picabia, Pillet, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • Publication of Pierre Descargues’ book Jean Dewasne by Presses Littéraires de France
  • Dewasne represents France at the Venice Biennale with three murals and ‘Antisculptures’
  • Lecture at the Atelier d’Art Abstrait in Paris, ‘Abstract Art and Dialectical Materialism’

1953

  • 23/01-17/02 – Exhibition at Galerie Denise René presenting Dewasne, Deyrolle, Jacobsen, Mortensen, Vasarely. Recent works
  • 17/06-14/07 – Exhibition at Galerie Denise René organised in collaboration with the Völkerkundemuseum, Hamburg. Die Gruppe Hamburg, Die Gruppe Denise René Paris: Arp, Bloc, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Domela, Herbin, Jacobsen, Magnelli, Mortensen, Vasarely
  • 26/06-13/07 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery featuring: Arp, Baertling, Battistini, Bloc, Bozzolini, Breer, R. Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dias, Domela, Gonzalez, Gilioli, Estève, Herbin, Istrati, Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Légeri, Magnelli, Mortensen, Navarro, Poliakoff, Raymond, Schnabel, Schneider, Stahly, Vasarely
  • December Publication of an article on Dewasne by critic Léon Degand in Art d’Aujourd’hui
  • Lecture by Dewasne, ‘Natural Structure of Language, Living Reality of Classical Expression,’ at the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen
‘Dewasne’ exhibition, Denise René Gallery - 1953

1954

  • Exhibition Galerie Monclea, Lima, Peru.
  • Exhibition and lecture at the School of Architecture in Lima, Peru
  • Exhibition Galeria del Fiore, Milan, Italy, featuring 12 original tapestries created by Ateliers Tabard in Aubusson. Arp, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Herbin, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Léger, Magnelli, Jacobsen, Mortensen, Pillet, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
  • 16/06 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René 1946-1948: works by Dewasne, Deyrolle, Jacobsen, Mortensen, Vasarely
  • 22/10-10/11 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René: ‘Art d’aujourd’hui’ presents its second album of silkscreen prints. Bloc, Bozzolini, Breuil, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Dimitresco, Istrati, Jacobsen, Lacasse, Leppien, Raymond, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Vasarely
  • 16/10-28/10 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René Paris organised in collaboration with the Association pour le progrès intellectuel et artistique de la Wallonie, Belgium and L’Emulation Liège, Belgium Bloc, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Herbin, Mortensen, Poliakoff, Vasarely

1955

  • Exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and lecture given on ‘Ethics for Abstract Art’
  • Exhibition at the Galerie Denise René, Paris, organised in collaboration with the Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden. Aubusson tapestries. Arp, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Herbin, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Léger, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pillet, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
Dewasne, Exhibition catalogue at the Palais des Beaux Arts, 1955

1956

  • July – Exhibition at Galerie Denise René, Paris, organised in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Abstract Tapestries. Arp, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Herbin, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pillet, Vasarely
  • October-November – Among other national selections, the French selection is presented by Denise René. Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, Internationale Sezession Arp, Bloc, S. Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Ernst, Herbin, Magnelli, Mortensen, Tinguely, Vasarely
  • 01/12-06/01/1957 – Among other national selections, the French selection is presented by Denise René. Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany. Internationale Sezession Arp, Bloc, S. Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Ernst, Herbin, Magnelli, Mortensen, Tinguely, Vasarely
  • 18/12/1956 -12/01/1957 – Exhibition Galerie Daniel Cordier Paris. Paintings by Dewasne, Dubuffet, Matta
Invitation card for the ‘Dewasne & Jouve’ exhibition, Le Pigeonnet, Aix-en-Provence, 1956

1957

  • 10/02-17/03 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René Paris organised in collaboration with the Musée d’Art et d’Industrie de Saint-Etienne, France. Twenty modern tapestries woven by Tabard Frères & Sœurs in Aubusson and published by Galerie Denise René Paris
  • December – Exhibition Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris. Paintings and gouaches by Dewasne

1958

  • 19/04-03/05 – Exhibition Grattacielo Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • 06/06-23/06 – Exhibition Denise René Gallery, Paris, in tribute to Léon Degand: Arp, Bloc, Bozzolini, R. Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Gonzalez, Gilioli, Hartung, Herbin, Jacobsen, Kandinsky, Lardera, Magnelli, Mortensen, Pillet, Poliakoff, Reth, Schneider, Seuphor, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely
    Dewasne gives a lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris entitled ‘Objective Art’

1959

  • Dewasne gives a lecture at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, alongside an exhibition of his works
  • Publication of a text by Dewasne in Quadrum 7 magazine: ‘Reflections on Abstract Art’

1960

 

1960

  • 31/03-04/06 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René, Paris in collaboration with Galerie Chalette, New York, USA ‘Geometry in painting from Malevich to tomorrow’

1961

  • Exhibition at the Lorenzelli Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • 08/06-15/07 – Exhibition at the Denise René Gallery, Paris presentation of works by Arp, Baertling, S. Delaunay, Dewasne, Herbin, Kassak, Mortensen, Mondrian, Seuphor, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely, as well as recent sculptures by Arp

1962

  • Exhibitions Galerie Daniel Cordier and Galerie Ekström, New-York, USA

1963

  • Exhibition Hybler Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 14/02-18/03 – Exhibition Daniel Cordier Gallery, Paris ‘Jean Dewasne Baroque’, paintings
Dewasne Exposition Daniel Cordier 1963

1965

  • Exhibition La Polena Gallery in Genoa, Italy
  • 18/06-11/07 – Exhibition Denise René Gallery Paris in collaboration with the Muzej za umjetnosti obrt in Zagreb. Francuska Tapiserija, Arp, S. Delaunay, Dewasne, Deyrolle, Magnelli, Mortensen, Taeuber-Arp, Vasarely

1966

  • First retrospective of Dewasne at the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland

1967

  • 14/12/1967 – 02/01/1968 – Exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris of murals commissioned for the Grenoble Ice Stadium, France, for the 1968 Winter Olympics.

1968

  • Dewasne, Arman, Kowalski and Schoffer represent France in the French pavilion at the 34th Venice International Art Biennale, Italy, General Curator Michel Ragon
  • Exhibition of works by Jean Dewasne: Le tombeau d’Anton Webern 1952, la Victoire de Samothrace 1 1967, la Victoire de Samothrace 2 1967, les Royaumes combattants 1967 (Centre international d’art contemporain Paris), Trois Rois 1967, l’Or Antipode 1968, la Grande Europe 1968
  • September Publication of a text by Dewasne in Nouvelle Critique issue 16, ‘Abstract Art and Objectivity’.
  • November – Dewasne participates in the publication of lithographs in collaboration with Prisunic stores.
Jean Dewasne, Biennale de Venise, 1968
Jean Dewasne, Biennale 1968 L'Or Antipode

L’Or Antipode

Biennale 1968

1969

  • 30/01 – Publication of an article in Le Monde entitled ‘Jean Dewasne or the integration of modernism’
  • February-March – Exhibition at L’ARC, Museum of Modern Art in Paris, of the monumental painting ‘La longue Marche’ (L 100 m x H 2 m), created for the University of Lille, France
  • April-May – Exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, of ‘La longue Marche’
  • November – Publication of ‘Jean Dewasne, painter of the industrial age’, an article by Michel Ragon in the magazine ‘Jardin des arts’
  • Dewasne is selected to exhibit at the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil but declines this privilege in view of the domestic situation in his country

He occupies an essential place. Dewasne is unmissable.

 

In the history of abstraction, he is truly a guiding and emblematic figure of this great painting by abstract painters of the 20th century.

Lydia Harambourg
Historienne de l’art

1970

 

1970

  • Exhibition of ‘Europe Match’ (18-metre-long painting) at the Pavillon Baltard in Paris
  • Exhibition by the Lahumière Gallery at the Internationale Kunstmesse Basel, Switzerland, of the silkscreen prints ‘La longue marche’ and the Antisculptures
  • March – Exhibition at the Bobigny Cultural Centre
  • December – Exhibition at the second Biennale de l’Estampe at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, France
Exposition de Peinture Murale de Jean Dewasne au Centre culturel de Bobigny - Février-Mars 1970
‘Dewasne 70’ exhibition at the Grenoble Museum, June–October 1970

1971

  • September-October Publication of a text by Jean Dewasne in the magazine L’œil, issue 201-202. ‘Le problème du mur’ (The problem with the wall), interview with Jacques Putman
  • 12/05-30/06 – Exhibition of ‘Environnement Mythia’ (painting, 38 m long) at the Galerie Creuzevault in Paris, then at the I.U.T. in Nancy, France

1972

  • October – Publication of an article in Opus International issue 37. ‘From Theory to Concept,’ excerpt from a dialogue with Jean Dewasne and Emmanuel Mavrommatis
  • Exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, ‘Habitacle rouge’ (Red Interior), a three-dimensional penetrable work (10 x 5 x 4 m)
  • Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Lefèvre Gallery, New York, USA
  • Publication by the Institut de l’Environnement of ‘Traité d’une peinture plane’ (written in 1949)
  • Conference-debate at the Musée d’Art Moderne, ARC, Paris with students from Nanterre ‘Les idées pédagogiques de Kandinsky’ (Kandinsky’s educational ideas)
  • 7/11 – 2/12 Exhibition Lefebvre Gallery New York

 

1973

  • Painting (6 x 3 m) in the entrance hall of the Danish Television House, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Creation of ‘Stella’ (10 x 3.33 m) for the Soto Museum in Ciudad de Bolívar, Venezuela
  • Exhibition Galerie Françoise Tournier, Paris
Invitation card for the exhibition of thirty gouaches by Jean Dewasne - Artel Gallery, 1973
Catalogue of the Marais Festival 1973

1974

  • 30 March–12 May – Exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark
  • 2 May – Exhibition at the Vismara Gallery in Milan, Italy
  • 22 June–11 August – Exhibition at the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg, Denmark
  • Exhibitions Benjamino Gallery, San Remo, Italy, Artel Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Exhibition FIAC Paris, Lahumière Gallery
  • December 74-February 75 – Exhibition of ‘The Long March’ L 100 m at Orly-Ouest Airport, France

1975

  • 07/03-10/04 – Exhibition at Galerie Denise René Paris of Kandinsky Prize winners, including Dewasne.
  • 29/04-14/09 – Exhibition at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, USA
  • June – Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Maxi paintings, removable murals (3×4 m)
  • June-September – Exhibition Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris. ‘Antisculptures, cerveau-mâles’ (Antisculptures, male brains). Publication of a text by Jean Dewasne, ‘Sur les Antisculptures’ (On Antisculptures), in the exhibition catalogue.
  • September-October – Exhibition at the Kustverein, Hanover, Germany
  • 18/09-11/10 – Exhibition Galerie Attali, Jean Dewasne maxi paintings
  • 20/09 – Inauguration of ‘Jet Underground’, dedicated to Leibniz, two mural works (110 m long), installed in the main metro station in Hanover, Germany
  • Creation of four ‘Cantor’ murals (10 m long) for the Renault computer building
  • Exhibitions Galerie Lucien Durand in Paris and Galerie Mark in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dewasne is listed in the Universal Dictionary of Painting, Le Robert
Invitation card for the exhibition ‘Jean Dewasne - Maxi-Peintures’ - Attali Gallery, 1975

1976

  • Juin – Exhibition  Centre d’Art et de Communication in Vaduz, Liechtenstein

1977

  • January – Exhibition at the Maison de la Culture in Annecy, France
  • January-February – Exhibitions at the Groningen Salon and the Charlottenborg Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Exhibition at the Aesbaeck Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (gouaches and drawings)
  • Exhibition at the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg, Denmark, Antisculptures and gouaches
  • April – Exhibition at the Kolding Art Centre, Denmark, Antisculptures and gouaches
  • April-May – Exhibition at the Atelier du Grand Hornu in Mons, Belgium, Antisculptures and gouaches
  • 18/08-18/09 – Exhibition at the Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad Museum in Oslo, Norway, Antisculptures, gouaches and maxi-paintings
  • Exhibition of the antisculpture ‘Anton Webern’s Tomb’ for the inauguration of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou Paris
  • Creation of murals and Antisculptures at the Gori Vaerk factory in Kolding, Denmark

1978

  • 25/01-12/03 – Exhibition Kulturhuset (House of Culture) in Stockholm, Antisculptures, maxi-paintings, gouaches
  • 25/01-12/03 – Exhibition at the French Institute in Stockholm, Sweden
  • 14/06-19/06 – Exhibition Galerie Denise René at Art 9’78, Internationale Kunstmesse Basel, Switzerland
  • 16/11-16/12 – Exhibition Galerie de Seine Paris
  • Exhibition Centre Culturel Noroit in Arras, France
  • Exhibition at the Basel, Chicago, Cologne and Paris art fairs with the Lahumière gallery

1979

  • 16/02-09/03 – Exhibition at Galerie Sapone in Nice, France
  • 01/08-31/08 – Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Venezuela
  • Creation of a three-dimensional painting along 7 km of pipes and 20 tanks at the second Gori Vaerk factory in Kolding, Denmark

1980

 

1980

  • 15/08-28/09 – Exhibition at the Amos Anderson Museum in Helsinki, Finland

1981

  • 01/03-04/04 – Exhibition at the Castle Museum in Kolding, Denmark
  • 07/03-30/04 – Exhibition at the Flaine Cultural Centre, France
  • 08/10 – ‘L’art construit’ (Constructed Art), lecture given by Dewasne at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, as part of the ‘Paris-Paris’ exhibition
  • Exhibition at the Veranneman Foundation in Krojshutem, Belgium
  • Exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘L’Ecole de Paris’ (The School of Paris), works ‘Paris-Paris’ and ‘L’Apothéose de Marat’ (The Apotheosis of Marat)
Cover of the catalogue for the Jean Dewasne exhibition at the Verannemann Foundation, Belgium, 1981

1982

1983

  • Issue of a stamp by the French Post Office based on the ‘Aurora set’ designs
  • 21/03 – 23/04 Exhibition at the Postal Museum in Paris
Issue of a stamp by the French Post Office based on Jean Dewasne's ‘Aurora set’ designs
Invitation card for the ‘Dewasne’ exhibition on the occasion of his ‘Aurora Set’ stamp, at the Musée de la Poste, 1983

1985 to 1989

  • Preparation and execution of the painting project for the Grande Arche building in La Défense, designed by architect Otto von Spreckelsen. The four murals (H 100 x W 70 m) are distributed throughout the interior of the building’s 32 floors.

1987

  • 08/07-31/07 – Exhibition Galerie de la Prévôté at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France

1988

  • Publication of the anti-sculpture ‘Dr W. Hoffmann die Dritte Dimension’ in the catalogue of the collections of the Kunstalle in Hamburg, Germany
  • Exhibition on tour until 1989. ‘Les Grand Travaux du Président’ on the forecourt of La Défense, in New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Copenhagen. Manuscripts, drawings, models and works on the Grande Arche fresco

1989

  • Completion of monumental tapestries begun in 1978 (156 m²) by the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Mobilier National
  • Exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Les années 50’ (The 1950s), works ‘L’Apothéose de Marat’ (The Apotheosis of Marat), ‘La joie de vivre’ (The Joy of Life) and ‘Prométhée’ (Prometheus)
  • Completion of the Daniel Cordier donation to the Centre Georges Pompidou, which includes works by Dewasne

 

1990

 

1990

  • Exhibition in Zeevenaar, Netherlands: Monumental anti-sculptures ‘Homage à Spinoza’
  • Daniel Cordier donation to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris “Prométhée”, 10 gouaches from the ‘Olympic Games’ cycle and a painting from 1948
  • Exhibition ‘Art dans le Metro’, the “Souterrains” cycles, and the Hanover Metro project, Germany
  • Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Italy: work ‘Le Tombeau Anton Webern’
  • Exhibition at the Chicago Fair, USA

1991

  • Travelling exhibition at the Noroit Cultural Centre in Arras, France, ‘50 ans de réflexion en Art Contemporain’, then in Le Touquet, France, Air-sur-Lys, France, and Wizernes, France
  • 27 October–8 December – Exhibition at the Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany
  • 8 June–15 September – Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Libourne, France, ‘Les Antisculptures’ 1968–1975
Exhibition invitation card "Jean Dewasne, Les Antisculptures, 1968-1975" at the musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Libourne, 1991

1992

  • Exhibition at FIAC Gallery 44 Phoenix USA

1995

  • Creation of a painting (800 m²) for the ceiling of the Politiken newspaper in Copenhagen, Denmark

1996

  • 19/11/1995-18/02/1996 – Exhibition ‘Dewasne. Arche de la Défense / Rondes-Bosses’ at the Centre Noroit in Arras
Exhibition catalogue « Dewasne. Arche de la Défense / Rondes-Bosses » at the Centre Noroit d’Arras

Nothing is symmetrical, and yet everything is in perfect balance.

That is the miracle of Jean Dewasne.

Patrice Trigano
Galeriste

2000

 

2000

  • Exhibition / inauguration of a mosaic in the Rome underground, Italy, at Piazza di Spagna station

2001

  • Retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Lahumière in Paris, ‘Genèse d’une peinture1945-1975’
  • Exhibition FIAC Paris, Galerie Lahumière ‘Dewasne One Man Show’
Invitation card for the retrospective exhibition « Genèse d’une peinture 1945-1975 », at the Galerie Lahumiere - 2001

2008

  • 14/02-30/04 – Exhibition at Galerie Lorenzelli Arte in Milan, Italy
  • Exhibition ‘Abstraction Géométrique – Abstraction Lyrique’ at the Ingres Museum in Mautauban
Jean Dewasne , exhibition at the Galerie Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, 2008
Invitation card for the exhibition "Abstraction géométrique - Abstraction lyrique" at the Musée In gres Montauban - 2008

2010

 

2012

  • Art Paris and 42nd Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, Galerie Lahumière Paris

2013

  • 12/09-31/10 – Exhibition ‘Dewasne Antisculptures’ Galerie Obadia Paris
  • April 2013 – Exhibition Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, France ‘La donation Jean Dewasne’
  • Exhibition Art Brussels Belgium ‘Jean Dewasne, Pol Bury, Henri Michaux’ Galerie Laurentin Brussels
Invitation cardboard for the exhibition "Jean Dewasne, Antisculptures" at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia - 2013

2013-2014

  • 17/10/2013-10/01/2014 – Group exhibition ‘Paris 50 Years’ Galerie Lahumière Paris
  • 25/09/2013-06/01/2014 – Exhibition Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France ‘La donation Jean Dewasne’

2014

  • February 2014 – Exhibition at Musée Mac-Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France: ‘La donation Jean Dewasne’
  • 22/03-09/06 – Exhibition at the Matisse Museum, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France: ‘Dewasne la couleur construite, de l’Antisculpture à l’Architecture’. Browse the catalogue
  • 28/06-28/09 – Exhibition at the Cambrai Museum of Fine Arts, France: “Dewasne vers une peinture plane‘
  • 19/09-31/10 – Exhibition Galerie Laurentin Paris: ’Gouaches & Laques‘
  • 11/10/2014 -15/02/2015 – Exhibition Musée d’Art Moderne de Dunkerque (LAAC) France, ’La donation Jean Dewasne’
  • 17/10-20/12 – Exhibition at the Lahumière Gallery, Paris: ‘Revoir Dewasne’; 44th Basel Art Fair, Switzerland; Art Cologne, Germany; Art Paris Presentation of the sequel to ‘La Longue Marche’
  • Obadia Gallery, Paris: Art Paris, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Art Brussels
Carton d'invitation de l'exposition « Dewasne la couleur construite, de l’Antisculpture à l’Architecture » au Musée Matisse-Le Cateau Cambresis - 2014
Carton d'invitation de l'exposition Musée d’Art Moderne de Dunkerque (LAAC) France, « La donation Jean Dewasne », 2014-2015

2015

  • 45th Basel Fair, Switzerland Galerie Lahumière Paris: presentation of ‘L’Apothéose de Marat’ (painting H 168 x W 568 cm).
  • 21/04-18/07 – Exhibition ‘Gouaches & Laques’, Galerie Laurentin Brussels
  • May 2015 – Exhibition Jean Dewasne, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
  • Art Brussels, Art Paris, Art Luxembourg, Art Geneva, Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris

Exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
May 2015

2016

2017

2018

Exhibition « L’aventure de la couleur – Œuvres phare du Centre Pompidou »
at the Centre Pompidou Metz
24/02/2018 – 29/07/2019 –

2019

Jean Dewasne Galerie Laurentin 2019

2020

 

2020

2021

  • 07/11-18/12 – Exhibition « Jean Dewasne – Panoramas » Galerie Lahumière Paris
  • 09/09-12/09 – Art Paris, Galerie Patrice Trigano Paris

2022

2022-2023

  • 09/06/22-06/03/23 – Exhibition Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris « Dewasne une Abstraction Rationnelle », as part of the museum’s new contemporary exhibition

2023

Jean Dewasne Galerie Laurentin 2023

2024

2025

2026

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Carton de l'exposition "Jean Dewasne" à la Galerie Almine Rech Paris Matignon, du 10 janvier au 14 mars 2026

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