Jean-Pierre Sudre

This survey show of the work of Jean-Pierre Sudre does just that – it reintroduces superlative examples of Sudre’s mordançage process and then places them in the larger context of the aesthetic choices he made during his artistic career. It’s an exhibit that gives us both the “what” of the innovative and obscure process and then surrounds it with the “why” of the evolving artistic intent.

Sudre’s experimentation, which continued until the early nineteen-nineties (he died in 1997), remained marvellously various, ranging in tone from psychedelic to scientific.