Raymond Hains

1926 - 2005
Born in 1926, in France

Raymond Hains, Sans titre, 1990 © Adagp, Paris, 2019

A leading figure of the post-war art scene, Raymond Hains’ unclassifiable body of work is rich with encounters, discoveries, perambulations, voyages, and stories.

Biography

Rooted in a Dadaist approach, his practice is based on a system of association, coincidences, and analogies between beings, words, things, objects, places, and images. In the early 1950s, during a stroll through the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood of Paris with artist Jacques Villeglé, Raymond Hains removed the first in a long series of posters that he would peel, rip, slash, or tear from public spaces before mounting them on canvas or leaving them on their original background, to modify, or not, the original composition created by the manipulations of an anonymous crowd. In the spirit of Duchamps, Hains continued to experiment with the principle of appropriation and distortion.

Bibliographic resources

Bompuis, Catherine ; Dabin, Véronique ; David, Catherine, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (Paris). Raymond Hains : guide des collections permanentes ou mises en plis : [exposition] Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries contemporaines, Paris, 6 juin-19 août 1990. Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 1990. 978-2-85850-485-5

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris). Raymond Hains : les 3 Cartier : du Grand Louvre aux 3 Cartier : [24 septembre 1994-19 février 1995, Paris], Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Paris : Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1994. 978-2-86925-045-1

Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (Nice). Raymond Hains : œuvres récentes : [exposition], Nice, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, 22 juin-10 septembre 2000. Nice : Musées de Nice, 2000. 978-2-913548-16-9

Leguillon, Pierre, Macel, Christine. Raymond Hains : j'ai la mémoire qui planche : [exposition, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Galerie Sud, du 27 juin au 3 septembre 2001]. Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001. 978-2-84426-062-8

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Sans titre, 1990

Raymond Hains

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From 20 February 2019 to 26 August 2019

A Vision for Painting

The Fondation Louis Vuitton displays a new selection of 70 works from the collection and gathers 23 international artists from the 1960s to the present day around one main theme : painting.

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