Focus on Robert Malaval
Robert Malaval (Nice, 1937 – Paris, 1980) crossed life with the fulgurance of a comet, on a background of rock music, guitar riff. His brief history is based on the spirit of an era: the Comics universe, the Glamrock spirit of the Rolling Stones and the birth of punk. Born with the school in Nice, he remains unclassifiable, flirting with raw art, pop art and happening.
Malaval has produced ink drawings, writing, meticulous graphics, humour, poetry, stains and collage.
In 1961-1962, inspired by the Carnivaliers of Nice, an informal material appeared in his works, made with reliefs of paper mâché in glued and painted white with oil, "a metaphor of a proliferating and inevitable evil". It will be the series of “White Foods”, which gives to see a calm atmosphere and already announces the artist’s deep anxiety. Only among the artists who took rock culture into account in his work, he accompanied his works of this music.
1973 saw the arrival of a new material: the glitter, first as a simple pigment and then as a matter that became subject to the table. The black background of his works, which symbolizes his inner void, highlights the movement and shine of the glitters. Its series “Star dust” becomes the echo of the brevity of its life.
Between alcohol and drugs, Malaval slowly eats, grows his body at the physical and mental ends. In 1980, he killed a bullet in his mouth in his Paris workshop. As he said, he wanted his whole life "to escape the boredom of repetition."
The exhibition
With his absence of aesthetic prejudices, Jean Ferrero was very soon interested in Robert Malaval, from the early 1960s, in his paintings and drawings. He was the collector who bought many works and not the galerist.
The exhibition presents 10 works made between 1960 and 1973 (3 paintings, 2 reliefs, 4 drawings and 1 screen printing) from Jean Ferrero's personal collection.
Temporary exhibitions
Du tuesday 18 february 2025 au wednesday 30 july 2025
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