12 Avril - 11 Mai 2025
Lee Ufan Arles
Hôtel Vernon, 5, rue Vernon, 13200 Arles, France

The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans presents the first retrospective devoted to Pierre Buraglio's work on paper. Invited to make the museum's graphic arts cabinets his own, to mingle his old works with drawings made in situ, and to create a dialogue between his work and the permanent collections, Pierre Buraglio unveils an original itinerary that questions both the practice and the very nature of drawing through its most varied expressions.Born in 1895 in Zoeterwoude, near Leiden, and died in 1981 in Grimaud. From the age of 12, Abraham Gerardus van Velde, known as Bram, worked in an interior design studio in The Hague, where one of the partners, struck by his talent, encouraged him to study painting and supported him financially. From 1936 onwards, he developed his own unique artistic language around the concept of space and the notion of transparency. In the 1960s, Jacques Putman, his friend and supporter since 1949, launched him into a production of lithographs that would establish his reputation. In his last years, he painted a number of large gouaches in La Chapelle-sur-Carouge, then in Grimaud, which are like a last “wild” deployment of color in his work. He is buried in the Arles cemetery.
For its third edition, the Festival du Dessin will offer the public an exceptional opportunity to admire some forty of his rarely exhibited gouaches, in which colors burst forth in a paradoxical and fascinating controlled frenzy.