The 11th Pavillon des arts et du design will be held at the Jardin des Tuileries from March 28th until April 1st 2007. Galerie Hopkins-Custot will present a remarkable series of works by Jean Dubuffet. In order to leave a trace of this exhibition, the gallery has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation of an 80 pages catalogue with 40 full page illustrations.

Along with each reproduction is a quote of the artist which gives a very personal light to the work.

The reader is thus able to grasp Dubuffet’s creative thought, his motivation and complexity, with intimacy and emotion.

The catalogue presents a group of « praticables », painted and mobile cut-outs, created for the project COUCOU BAZAR.

This animated painting allowed Jean Dubuffet to « have the spectator enter the images ».

« I like Dubuffet because his paintings mix humour with a jam of possibilities, an apocalypse of shapes, a swarming of incredible, laughable and contradictory things ; an opera of an immersed city », describes French writer Alexandre Vialatte, about the work of Dubuffet.

Born in Le Havre in 1901 of wine merchant parents, Jean Dubuffet studied at the Beaux Arts. At the age of 42, after renouncing twice to painting, he decided to dedicate himself to making art.

Against an « intellectual » art, or what he called « asphyxiating culture », he became a creator and provocateur of genius, using a childish yet not innocent style of drawing and became internationally known.

This catalogue is distributed by our partner PARIS MUSÉES in 300 bookstores in France, including 50 specialized with an Art section. The catalogue will be listed in over forty (40) professional databases and online bookstores, including Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom.

The catalogue will also be distributed in Europe, North America, Canada and Eastern Europe.