PARIS.- kamel mennour announced the exclusive international representation of Judit Reigl, and to contribute with the Fonds de Dotation Judit Reigl to the promotion and dissemination of her work.

Internationally recognized, Judit Reigl constantly found her own way through different artistic currents and schools, from surrealism to gestural abstraction, including figuration, and established herself as one of the great painters of the late 20th century.

Born in Hungary in 1923, Judit Reigl moved to France in 1950, after several attempts to cross the Iron Curtain and escape totalitarianism. Her work was clearly marked by the historical, social and political events she witnessed, particularly the border divisions and wars.

“I left one bloc to belong to no other. Neither emigrant, nor exiled, nor integrated. Transnational.” (1)

Working in series, Reigl inscribed her formal research in the elaboration of a pictorial language - sometimes in continuity, sometimes in rupture -, implementing a “total automatic, psychic and physical, writing.” (2) Her works are the result of a bodily engagement with the materials and movement.

“My entire body took part in the work, ‘in the wake of my arms wide open’. I wrote in the given space with gestures, beats, impulses.” (3)

As the year 2023 will mark the centenary of her birth, we are delighted to present from 8 February to 26 March, “Je suis la Règle”, a first solo exhibition of the artist at the gallery (5 rue du Pont de Lodi – Paris 6). It will bring together a precise selection of paintings chosen from different series that the artist produced over several decades.

Judit Reigl is part of the exhibition “Elles font l'abstraction” presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2021, and at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao until 27 February 2022.

(1). art press International, n°5, mars • March 1977.
(2). Jean‑Paul Ameline, in Catalogue Collection art graphique ‑ La collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, sous la direction de • under the direction of Agnès de la Beaumelle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2008.
(3). On Judit Reigl, catalogue d’exposition • exhibition catalogue Judit Reigl, Mucsarnok‑Kalman Maklary Fine Arts, Budapest, 2005.