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Claude Viallat
1936
France
Born in 1936 in Nîmes, France
Claude Viallat is one of the founders of the “Supports/Surfaces” movement in the 1970s, advocating for a renewal of art by questioning traditional materials. Trained at the Beaux-Arts of Montpellier and Paris, he began working on industrial tarps, endlessly repeating an abstract shape resembling a knucklebone, which became his signature. By applying this stencil motif on various supports, he challenges the meaning of the creative gesture and the status of the “work of art”
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Claude Viallat

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