Opening this Saturday October 9th from 3 to 7 pm of the exhibition Pat Steir : Paint, at Galerie Jaeger Bucher 5 et 7 rue de Saintonge. This first exhibition in Paris of American Artist Pat Steir will be held until January 8th, 2011. Gallery Jaeger Bucher entrusted Communic’Art with the media campaign of the event.

Since her first exhibition at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York in 1964, Pat Steir has created a large body of works based on the ‘waterfall’ painting technique she devised in the early 1980s with “Waterfall Painted with the Chinese in Mind”.

Pat Steir has developed her technique of working with what she calls “the nature of paint” over several decades, using her body like a kyudo archeror a compass in order to experience a canvas from within, from a central axis, working towards spatialisation.

Her work also testifies to her profound interest in Renaissance painters with some of her works reminding us of the brilliant colours and magnificent gilding in sublime works by Fra Angelico, Fra Lippo Lippi and Giotto. She is similarly well acquainted with the Abstract Expressionists and Chinese painting from the Tang and Song dynasties; she has a perfect knowledge of  8th and 9th century ‘Yi-pin’ techniques whereby ‘ink splashes’ on the canvas gave rise to abstract forms suggesting perfect freedom and mastery. Ten of her recent paintings presented in this exhibition are radiantly beautiful, with a mystique that evokes the silence of our original beginnings, the zero starting-point.

For this exhibition, the gallery will publish a bilingual catalogue with colour reproductions and an essay by Doris van Drathen, art historian and critic.

The artist has exhibited her work widely, most recently in the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, (architect : Zaha Hadid, 2010), the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany (2006), the Whitney Museum, New York (2004) and the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2003); she also figures in many acclaimed public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the National Gallery of Art in  Washington and the Tate Gallery in London.

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5 et 7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : +33 1 42 72 60 42 – www.galeriejaegerbucher.com