Join us for a conversation between art historian and member of the Comité Picabia Arnauld Pierre and art historian Simon Marginson, moderated by curator and professor Andrew Renton, in celebration of the exhibition ‘Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons’ at Hauser & Wirth London.
The talk will take place in the North Gallery, with seats being allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Tickets are free but advance is required. Complimentary drinks will be served upon arrival.
Please note that gallery will be closed before the event.
About Arnauld Pierre
Arnauld Pierre, PhD, is an art historian, curator, and professor at Sorbonne University, Paris. A member of the Comité Picabia since the late 1990s, he contributed to the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work and has published numerous texts on various aspects of Picabia’s practice. He is also author of the monograph ‘Francis Picabia. La peinture sans aura’ (Gallimard, 2002).
About Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson is an independent art historian. He wrote his PhD on Francis Picabia’s paintings of Spanish women and is currently working on a book about the artist and his time in Spain. His writings have been published in the academic journals Dada/Surrealism and Art History, and in the exhibition catalogues The Expressive Mark, Picasso/Picabia: La peinture au défi, and Uz Uz Uz Artists from working class backgrounds.
About Andrew Renton
Andrew Renton is Professor of Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is author and editor of many articles, books and monographs on art, and has curated many shows internationally, including the first Manifesta Biennial (1996) and most recently, ‘Ângela Ferreira: Slits are Girls’ at The Showroom, London, UK (2026). Renton was a member of the jury for the 2006 Turner Prize and the founding Director of Marlborough Contemporary Gallery in London, UK. He is trustee of several organizations, including Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, The Drawing Room, The Showroom, all in London, UK, and Maumaus art school in Lisbon, Portugal. He has advised many collections and institutions, including the British Government Art Collection.
About ‘Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons’
Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. Organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, this wide-ranging overview covers five decades of creative output, from his early landscapes, Dada works and Transparencies through to his radical nudes, realist works made during World War II and textural abstract paintings created in his final years. Shedding light across every area of the artist’s practice, this exhibition highlights his fluid movement between figurative art and abstraction, affirming Picabia’s reputation as one of art history’s most ingenious shape shifters.
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