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to our work, and we didn’t have an access to theirs. We 
were joined by other artists, and some time later, a group 
of Parisians started to attach meaning to what we were 
doing. Supports/Surfaces became theory driven, and 
started to impose rules. That is where I distanced myself 
from it. I don’t like people telling me what to do. I don’t 
like politics. I want to create. I want to be free.“ 
Interview by Anne Havik 
The exhibition 
„Supports/Surfaces: Viallat & Saytour. 
Modern French painting from the MNHA“ 
is on display until 29 August 2021. 
Free admission. 
INTERVIEW 
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(from left to right:) Private guided tour of our „Supports/Surfaces“ exhibition by the curator Ruud Priem during the visit of the galerist 
Bernard Ceysson and the artist Claude Viallat, last February, in attendance of the MNHA director Michel Polfer.