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Denise René in 2012, the gallery has continued its specific work to inscribe the present of contemporary creation in a historical reference by showing the relationship between the heritage of constructive abstraction and kineticism and the most recent productions of emerging artists on the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.
Denis Kilian
Albers
Jean Arp
Baertling
David Bill
Jakob Bill
Max Bill
Blanchet
Bolognini
Boto
Bury
Cahn
Claisse
Crespin
Cruz-Diez
Sonia Delaunay
Demarco
Dias
Duarte
Equipo 57
Franque
Garcia Rossi
Gerstner
Gordillo
Gorin
Herbin
Heurtaux
Ikeda
Jacobsen
Jeltov
Kujasalo
LAb[au]
Pe Lang
Leblanc
Le Parc
Leroy
Lilly
Luque
Macaparana
Mack
Moutashar
Naraha
Nemours
Paternosto
Perez-Flores
Picelj
Rey
Schöffer
Sobrino
Soto
Stazewski
Stein
Sunagawa
Taeuber-Arp
Thery
Tomasello
Santiago Torres
Tsaï
Ullrich
Vasarely
Yvaral
Zimoun
