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Jean Miotte Return to China

Jan 10 — Mar 15, 2025 | Shanghai

Opening on January 10, 2025, from 5 - 7 pm

Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to announce Jean Miotte's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 10 to March 15, 2025. In 1980, Miotte was the first Western painter to be invited to show his work after Mao’s regime.

Painting is a gesture from within

Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present twelve paintings by French artist Jean Miotte (1926-2016), one of the masters of Art Informel. Miotte always refused to be associated with any particular school—conveniently forgetting that his work was shown in the “Informel” section at the first Paris Biennial in 1959. He expressed a personal lyricism that found its source in the energy of unresolved gestures—something that differentiates him from other abstract painters of his time. 

His artistic impulse contained an inherent anxiety from the acknowledged risk of avoiding the pitfalls of triviality and indulgence. He had to face the possible failure of achieving a painting whose difficulties he strove to resolve through pictorial developments. 

— Lydia Harambourg, historian, writer, art critic, Correspondent Member of the Institut de France, Académie des beaux-arts

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Selected artworks

  • Jean Miotte,                                      Ecart, 2005

    Jean Miotte Ecart, 2005

    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 97 cm
    51 x 38 in