Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

“You will no longer find any object or figure in these paintings – nothing can be named. However, they are not “non-figurative”. Their aim is to represent (or should we rather say “to evoke”) in an abridged and synoptic way, the world that surrounds us of which we are a part. But in these works this world is seen from an unaccustomed point of view: a point of view in which we no longer see things (that which has a name) but rather acts, or more precisely, movements, tumultuous transits in the heart of a continuum without voids’ (J. Dubuffet, Prospectus et tous ecrits suivants, volume 3, Paris 1995, pp. 444-45).