Guggenheim Bilbao Celebrates Jean Dubuffet with Major Retrospective

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents 'Jean Dubuffet: ferviente celebración', a major exhibition curated by David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The show spans four decades of Dubuffet's career, from his 1940s beginnings to his final series completed in 1984. Dubuffet (Le Havre, 1901 – Paris, 1985) coined the term Art Brut and rejected traditional norms, seeking to disorient viewers. The exhibition includes key works like 'Miss Choléra' (1946) and 'Volonté de puissance' (1946), which feature ghostly, primitive figures rendered in thick oil mixed with sand, pebbles, and straw. The show traces Dubuffet's evolution from figuration to abstraction, culminating in the Hourloupe series where recognizable forms dissolve into lines and colors. The exhibition also marks the 25th anniversary of the Guggenheim Bilbao's opening. Dubuffet's artistic philosophy emphasized perpetual revolution and novelty, as expressed in his 1967 writings. The show runs until August 21, 2022.