Louis Cane
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 1943 -
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Male
Piraeus, Greece, 1936 - 2017, Rome, Italy
b. 1942, New York, NY; d. 2021, New York, NY
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BiographyFrench painter and writer. He studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice and then at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He had his first one-man show at the Galerie Givaudan in Paris in 1969. His early works were ‘painted papers’, for example Collage (1967; see Bielefeld exh. cat., p. 51). These were followed by the ‘stamped works’ of 1968 to 1969, created using a repeated design stamped onto canvas, such as Untitled (1968; see Bielefeld exh. cat., p. 48). From 1970 to 1971 he participated in the Supports-Surfaces group, though he was not included in the first exhibition (1970). In 1971 he co-founded and thereafter directed the review Peinture/Cahiers théoriques, originally intended as a mouthpiece for this group. At this time he began to produce his large ‘floor-wall’ canvases, painted in a few colours, which hung from the wall and extended on to the floor at the base. Those of 1974 and 1976 are mainly in black.From Grove Dictionary of Art