Bas Jan Ader – On The Road to a New Neoplasticism, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

Four framed photographs mounted in a grid on a white gallery wall — Bas Jan Ader's 1971 work 'On The Road to a New Neoplasticism,' shown here in Paris. Each print in the series shows Ader lying on a Dutch road, a tower on the horizon, a blue bundle at his side. The sequence documents a performance that doubles as a conceptual argument: the road is both a literal path and a reference to De Stijl, the movement Neoplasticism named. The wall label places this in the context of a FRAC and Centre Pompidou collaboration — the work travels, even as its subject stays horizontal.