jef bourgeau / abstract

Not so long ago, I wrote in this column about the American artist Jef Bourgeau. I am forced to write about him again because he is indeed a unique and rare phenomenon. Critical, indefatigable, and constantly at war with the status quo, Bourgeau founded Detroit’s Museum of New Art two decades ago, and, much like the city itself, without any money at all.

Bourgeau recently presented a new body of work in Detroit which is both original and elaborate in form and color as if at the hand of a reborn Picabia, of a sort of Cubism freshly discovered after a century of modern art, but bearing newfound gestural expression while utilizing hi-tech pixelations, making them uniquely intelligent and emotional creations well beyond any possible other.

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- from A LETTER FROM AMERICA 

by Lucio Pozzi for The Art Newspaper