Raymond Hains (1926-2005) Signed and Numbered Print, Affiche Déchirée De La Biennale (1964)

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A signed and numbered silkscreen print after Raymond Hains (French, 1926-2005) from his work, Affiche déchirée de la Biennale (1964). … more A signed and numbered silkscreen print after Raymond Hains (French, 1926-2005) from his work, Affiche déchirée de la Biennale (1964). Numbered 194/600 and signed in pencil in lower right corner. Unframed. Artwork is approximately 15 in wide by 15.5 in high.

Raymond Hains is widely regarded as one of the most important and challenging French artists of the second half of the twentieth century. An unclassifiable personality, often associated with Nouveau Réalisme and close to European post-war avant-garde movements Lettrisme and Situationnisme, Raymond Hains is mainly well-known for his torn posters and palissades (board fences) found in the streets, starting in 1949.

Constantly imagining new forms and media during his career, as the “Giant Matchboxes” (pop sculptures signed by two fictional artists created by Hains in the 1960s), the “Hypnagogic glasses” (eyewear made of ribbed glass), the “Sidewalk Sculptures” (found and photographed in the streets) or the “Macintoshages” (computer-based manipulations), among many non conformists creative processes, Hains’s oeuvre is always stimulating the viewer’s eyes, experience, memory and imagination. less