The Réattu Museum devotes its summer exhibition to Pierre Jahan (1909-2003), several works of whom it already possesses. This is the first institutional retrospective of the artist.
Pierre Jahan stands out for his extremely free approach and his equally wide-ranging output, which mixed surrealism and advertising collages, features and reportages on the Paris of the 1940s.
Focussing more particularly on the 1930s to '50s, a period marked by some masterly series, the selection sets out to grasp the extent to which his experimental work and his applied art influenced each other.
Largely made up of prints from the period, it brings together 150 images, models and objects from private collections (galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, Collection Charles Chadwyck) or public institutions (Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Archives des Musées Nationaux, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Institut de la mémoire de l'Édition Contemporaine, Caen, where the Jahan collection is held.)
Produced by the City of Arles, and part of the programme des the Arles Rencontres, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue representing the first complete work on this singular artist. Publisher: éditions Actes Sud.
Curator:
Michèle Moutashar, Chief curator for Heritage, Director of the Réattu Museum
