Simon Hantai – Tables (1978)

Louisiana poster with work from the series, Tables (tables, boards, boards) , by the Hungarian artist, Simon Hantai (1922-2008), which Louisiana exhibited in 1978. Some perceive Hantai's "squares" as bars, confining prison bars - to others they seem invigorating, cheerful and poetic: The squares are broken and bent, and small wedges shoot across the colored fields. Images with a lyrical content, but also subject to a fixed rhythm, like a pulse that could be the artist's own.

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Hantai belonged to the Ecole de Paris after many years of living in the French capital and has drawn inspiration from, among other things, Matisse's later works and from the American abstract expressionist, Jack Pollack.

For Hantai, too, Paris offered a newfound freedom, a favorable working environment, and his first contacts with surrealism. He set out to try out a myriad of painting techniques and genres, and ended up with almost a compendium of the history of painting from 1920 to 1950 – as if he had to go through the entire development all over again in order to find himself.

In the wake of Pollock and the action painting of the 1950s, Hantai broke with surrealism and was self-chosen through a number of developmental phases and genres throughout his work.

Dimensions: W: 42 x H: 59.4 cm (A2)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.