On March 16, PIASA is organising a Modern and Contemporary Art auction.
"From 1972, the shift from acrylic to ink, a liquid and transparent material, changed the act of painting - the process and the gestuality. Marc Devade breaks with "American formalism" to develop a new dialectic between form and colour, more active and reciprocal. The surface is still structured by parallel vertical sections, but in a minimal geometry.
The measurements and colours are still determined, but the mention of shades - "black-red, light red, dark red" - suggests future superimpositions of colours. The fragile sheet torn from the notebook supports the strength of the line that defines the space and the production process. The line thickens at the point where the brushstroke will travel across the canvas in a black, irregular sweep, directed outwards from the pictorial surface."
in Jacques Henric and Catherine Millet, Art Press n° 49, june 1981.
