Patrick Saytour

Exhibited by Ceysson & Bénétière

Material Wooden strips, rope, dye

Dimensions 131 × 150 cm

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

The works by Saytour titled Tension belong to a series of about a dozen “depositions” produced specifically for the open-air exhibition Intérieur-Extérieur, held from June to August 1970, just a few months before the official creation of the Supports/Surfaces group in Paris. This itinerant, chance-based, and short-lived exhibition presented the works of the future members of the group across twelve outdoor sites in the south of France, outside the usual artistic context.

Made from painted wooden slats held together by a rope, these works by Saytour are mobile and easy to dismantle. While the triangular and square forms are intended to be hung like a painting, the others are designed to lean against the wall. For Patrick Saytour, these open-air installations were pioneering experiments in how artworks interact with natural or social sites, and in how the environment conditions the works themselves and the viewer’s experience of them.

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