"THE SHADES OF BLACK ARE A MATTER OF LIGHT"
I was bowled over by the Pierre Soulages exhibition. As I had the gallery virtually to myself for nearly an hour, I could walk around the paintings - or rather look at them from either side. There was no way that I could convince Laurent later in the afternoon that « The Shades of Black" are full of different images. (Soulages was born in 1952, studied art history in Munich and received his PhD in 1983. After stints at the National Museums in Munich, the Berlinische Galerie for twentieth-century art and the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, he has worked since 1991 as the curator of nineteenth and twentieth-century painting and sculpture at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. He is also a lecturer in art history in Bonn and Düsseldorf.) This is all I could find in English on Internet so I suppose he helped to curate the exhibition at the gallery. He was born in Rodez, Aveyron, in 1919 and is also is known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in the colour,