Marie-Claude Pratte

H.A.C. (HISTOIRE DE L’ARTISTE CONTEMPORAIN)
03.10–04.21.2001
Room 2

Marie-Claude PRATTE presents here a continuation of her social portraits. A whole host of 20th-century masters—great and small, living and deceased, famous and less famous, local and international—have been put through the Pratte-style mill. The painter interweaves “bad painting,” naïve art, and a level of technical skill worthy of a virtuoso forger. It’s a bit of a free-for-all. It certainly seems that Pratte, the contemporary artist, is far more cunning than bewildered by the art world. Subversive.