Pierrette Bloch - La peinture par d’autres moyens

Pierrette Bloch is one of the most renowned European artists of post-war abstraction. Independent, she has throughout her career turned to humble materials and minimalist motifs, which she arranges between order and disorder.

Pierrette Bloch's works lie at the convergence of a multitude of unique paths, using painting, collage, and weaving over the years, and in which questions of freedom of expression and abstraction are omnipresent.

For the first time, a major retrospective of her work will be presented at the MAMC+ museum in Saint-Étienne from April 19 to September 21, 2025.

The exhibition catalog, like Pierrette Bloch's work, is multifaceted. It gives pride of place to reproductions of the hundred or so works on display to the public in the exhibition (paintings, collages, marouflage, pen and horsehair paintings, etc.), but it also sheds original light on Pierrette Bloch's life and work through the perspectives of six authors.

Aurélie Voltz, director of the MAMC+, wrote the introduction to the book; Marcel Cohen, writer, draws on anecdotes from Pierrette Bloch's life to deliver a literary gem; David Quéré, the artist's beneficiary and curator of numerous exhibitions dedicated to the artist, provides a text based on his memories of Pierrette Bloch. Natalie Adamson and Camille Paulhan, both art historians, offer two essays that recontextualize the work and the artist. The contribution by Valérie Mréjen, novelist and visual artist, draws on the artist's family photo collection to create a fictional biography whose rules of the game are yet to be defined.

A monographic work that reflects Pierrette Bloch's characteristic seriousness and humor. A work as original and surprising as the exhibition itself.