France
* July 31, 1901 Le Havre
† May 12, 1985 Paris
In the first decades of his career, Jean Dubuffet used a variety of artistic techniques, including painting, drawing, and printmaking. It was not until 1962 that he developed a radically new graphic style with the “Hourloupe” series: cell-like structures limited exclusively to the colors red, blue, black, and white.
At the end of the 1960s, the artist transferred these graphic elements to sculpture, and Hourloupe became consistently three-dimensional. From then on, Dubuffet developed sculptures for public spaces, which would make his art distinctive and himself known worldwide. The series ultimately culminated in rock-like structures made of polyester resin, fiberglass, or Styrofoam, some of which are even walkable, such as the “Jardin d’Email” at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo or the “Jardin d’Hiver” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
