Pierrette BLOCH

French painter and sculptor.

[ PARIS 1928 – ID. 2017 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

EUROPE

France

Author : Fanny DRUGEON

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Since the 1950s, Pierrette Bloch’s work has moved toward a form of abstraction that remains free from any aesthetic category and relies on rhythm, the ambivalence between fullness and emptiness, and the contrast between black and white. It is a subtle body of work, which the artist develops with a great economy of means, creating series based on the repetition of elementary patterns – dots, curls, writing – and a near absence of colour. She experienced her first emotional reactions to works of art in 1939 when visiting an exhibition of the masterpieces of the Prado Museum, which were on display in Geneva. She and her parents fled occupied France for...

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Bibliography

■ Sculptures et dessins de crin, collages, 1968-1998 (exhibition catalogue), Carjac, Maison des arts Georges-Pompidou, 1998 ; Dessins, encres et collages (exhibition catalogue), Grenoble/Paris, Musée de Grenoble/RMN, 1999 ; Pierrette Bloch (exhibition catalogue), Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2002 ; Pierrette Bloch (exhibition catalogue), Montpellier/Arles, Musée Fabre/Actes Sud, 2009.

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