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EXHIBITION OF THE ARTIST PAUL REBEYROLLE | 14/05/2013

Beginning May 23 through 31 October, Lynch-Bages will be offering its visitors a selection of important works by the artist Paul Rebeyrolle, lent by Galerie Lelong to be exhibited in the spectacular old vat-room.

Paul Rebeyrolle was born in Eymoutiers (Haute-Vienne) in 1926. He died in his studio in Boudreville, Burgundy. A key 20th-century artist and eloquent witness to our times, he was an impassioned free thinker. A committed painter and sculptor who condemned the violence in the world. His work is organised in cycles, in series completed over several decades. It denounces society and its failings, exclusion, politics, power and injustice, whilst idealising nature, landscapes and waterscapes, and the animals he so loved.

The anger expressed in his large-format paintings is matched only by the wealth of materials used: fabrics, wire netting, straw, hair, cardboard, glue, and wood, all imbuing the immense canvases with a living, moving relief. A painter of excess, Paul Rebeyrolle admired the power of the works of Rubens, Courbet, Géricault and Caravaggio, in whose traditions he indisputably follows.

Numerous exhibitions and retrospectives have been dedicated to him: in the Marlborough Gallery in London and New York, at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the Grand Palais national galleries in Paris, in the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and lastly in the Domaine National in Chambord.
The Galerie Lelong has been showing his work since 1983.

Paul Rebeyrolle
"Le rebelle"
Exhibition at Château Lynch-Bages
Visits by appointment: from 9:30 am to 1 pm (last entry at 12 noon) and from 2pm to 6.30pm (last entry at 5pm)
Opening 23 May