Galerie Denise René

A pioneer gallery, known since its creation for the extreme coherence of its aesthetic choices, the name of the Denise René Gallery is inseparable from the history of modern art. It has revealed and ensured international recognition for the currents of geometric abstraction and kineticism – Op Art in the USA – whose developments it follows today through new generations of artists.

Born in 1944 in the effervescence of the Liberation, with Vasarely’s first exhibition, the gallery entered definitively into the history of modern art in 1955, with the exhibition Movement. A generation of artists such as Agam, Soto, Bury, Tinguely or Jacobsen met Duchamp, Calder, or Vasarely, at the origin of the Yellow Manifesto, which marked the official birth of cinetism.

In 2001, the Centre Pompidou paid tribute to the Gallery in the exhibition Denise René l’intrépide, une galerie dans l’aventure de l’art abstrait.

Since the death of Denise René in 2012, the gallery has continued its specific work to inscribe the present of contemporary creation in a historical reference by showing the relationship between the heritage of constructive abstraction and kineticism and the most recent productions of emerging artists on the international scene who, like Elias Crespin, Pe Lang, Vincent Leroy, Bolognini, Anne Lilly, Théry, Rey, Santiago Torres, Ikeda, or the LAb[au] collective, inscribe their work in the continuity of the gallery’s aesthetic line.