Klein, Hains, Villeglé, Tinguely, César, Arman, Spoerri, Raysse, Dufrêne, Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Deschamps, Christo – dubbed the "New Realists"* by the art critic Pierre Restany – held many group shows and happenings. They integrated scraps of the everyday urban industrial world into their works (fences, barrels, plastic items, rubbish, cars or traffic signs...) -- Compressions by César, Accumulations by Arman, scraped and slashed posters by Hains and Villeglé, Assemblages of ordinary plastic items by Raysse, Trap-Pictures by Spoerri, sculptures that self-destruct by Tinguely, Shootings by Niki de Saint Phalle… - in a truly radical approach which has now been forgotten.

The exhibition of about 200 works shows the vitality of “New Realism” through the reconstitution or display of some installations and a thematic and historical circuit which explores the special features of the movement and the highlights of their shared adventure. It focuses on a brief decade – from 1958 to 1965/69 – the time of its group shows, an extremely dense and lively period which was later obscured by the artists’ individual careers.

Practical information

Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
square Jean Perrin entrance
75008 Paris
Tél. : + 33 (0)1 53 73 78 16

Metro station: lines 1, 9 et 13 : Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau or Franklin-Roosevelt.
Bus : lines 28, 32, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93.

Open from 10ham to 8hpm
on Wednesday till 10hpm
in December on friday till 10hpm

Admission
You are advised to book in advance
* with bookings: full price € 10; concession price, € 8.
* * free for children under 13, income support beneficiaries and old age pensioners.

For further information, you can visit the following website: The galeries nationales du Grand Palais