Raymond Hains, Saffa, 1964, Bois peint sur contreplaqué. Collection privée, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois. © ADAGP, Paris 2007

PARIS, FRANCE.- Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais present Le Nouveau Réalisme, on view through July 2, 2007, An exhibition jointly produced by the Rmn, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, to be shown at the Sprengel Museum Hannover from 9 September 2007 to 27 January 2008. Lasting from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, New Realism was part of an overall drive to renew artistic forms and themes in a booming consumer and industrial society, in reaction to the immediate post-war period: Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Fluxus, Zero Group, New Realists…Klein, Hains, Villeglé, Tinguely, César, Arman, Spoerri, Raysse, Dufrêne, Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Deschamps, Christo – dubbed the "New Realists"* by the art critic Pierre Restany – held many group shows and happenings. They integrated scraps of the everyday urban industrial world into their works (fences, barrels, plastic items, rubbish, cars or traffic signs...) - Compressions by César, Accumulations by Arman, scraped and slashed posters by Hains and Villeglé, Assemblages of ordinary plastic items by Raysse, Trap-Pictures by Spoerri, sculptures that self-destruct by Tinguely, Shootings by Niki de Saint Phalle… - in a truly radical approach which has now been forgotten. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19898

Gérard Deschamps, Trois Lichtenstein = un Deschamps, 1965, 220 x 200 cm. Collection privée, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois.© ADAGP, Paris 2007