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Claude Viallat is a French painter and founding member of the Supports/Surfaces movement, which emerged in the 1960s to challenge the conventions of stretched canvas and gallery display. His work interrogates the materiality of painting itself, employing repetitive stamping, stenciling, and printing techniques on raw fabrics, paper, and unconventional grounds. Rather than treating the canvas as a neutral support, Viallat makes the material substrate, its folds, edges, and physical properties, integral to the work's meaning. His practice extends to large-scale installations and interventions that question the relationship between object, space, and viewer.

Nimes, France