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Raymond Hains - Brief Article
ArtForum, May, 2001 by Caroline Schneider
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU
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Rumor has it that Raymond Hains is one of the most influential French artists of the postwar period. A founding member of the Nouveaux Realistes, he became famous--to some, infamous--in the '50s for his slashed war posters, those lacerated portraits of French colonialism during the Algerian conflict. But his broader oeuvre--photographs, paintings, sculptures, decollages, objects, films, "Macintoshages" (computer-derived collages)--and the irreverent wit that permeates it, deserves another look. Organized by the Pompidou's Christine Macel, this 150-piece, full-career survey reveals the artist's astonishing stylistic range. A French affair-or will Hains's absurdist rhetoric manage to proliferate beyond France's linguistic borders? June 27-Sept. 3.
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