Jean Dubuffet Retrospective at the Centre George Pompidou Type: Culture City: PARIS Location: Centre George Pompidou From 13/9/2001 to 31/12/2001 Tel: +33 1 44 78 12 33 ' Tearing it all down This exhibition is something of a war chronicle, because it recounts a complete and utopian battle against everything: culture, ancient art, art itself, beauty, grammar, common sense, harmony and knowledge. The painting of Jean Dubuffet is in the image of his life: ever-changing, always corrosive, it denies everything it depicted earlier. At the same time that he attacked art, aesthetic trends and pictorial genres, ''the jumping mind'' took on the techniques: he preferred his sleeve to the bristles of a brush, as well as anything he could use to scrape, sand, cut, scratch or grate. With no fewer than 25 different periods to his name, Dubuffet remains the pessimistic version of the 20th century demiurge artist.' Concorde Hotels in PARIS : HOTEL DE CRILLON HOTEL CONCORDE LA FAYETTE CLUB LA FAYETTE HOTEL DU LOUVRE HOTEL AMBASSADOR HOTEL CONCORDE SAINT-LAZARE HOTEL LUTETIA CHATEAU HOTEL MONT ROYAL Back