Title
Léon Wuidar : à perte de vue / auteurs, Denis Gielen, Hans Ulrich Obrist ; coordination éditoriale, Joanna Leroy.
Notes
This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Léon Wuidar--À perte de vue" at Musée des arts contemporains au Grand-Hornu (MACS), Hornu, Belgium, September 26, 2021-January 30, 2022.
Texts in French followed by English translation.
Summary
Practising an art that has been built up assiduously and not without a few notes of humour, in the house designed for him in the 1970s by the architect Charles Vandenhove, for whom he has also created certain artistic integrations, the Liège artist Léon Wuidar (°1938) has produced a body of work that is as coherent as it is surprising. After the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, the MACS is staging a major retrospective which brings together a number of his paintings, collages and sketchbooks created between 1962 and the present day. With its title À perte de vue (As Far as the Eye Can See), the exhibition emphasises the immense labyrinth of his oeuvre, as well as the "smiling rigour" of an artist who plays with lines and colours, words and objects.
Contents
How to look at L.W.
Conversation avec l'artiste = Conversation with the artist
Sélection d'œuvres 1962-2021 = Selected artworks 1962-2021
Dessins et collages = Drawings and collages
Reliures et livres-objets = Bookbinding and object books
Carnets de dessins = Sketchbooks
Biographie = Biography.