link to Christoph Verfaille at Galerie Buchholz Cologne 2013

Exhibition curated by Yve-Alain Bois

Christophe Verfaille (1953-2011) attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Amiens and Paris in 1970-1972 and pursued his artistic formation as a pupil of the print-maker François Leyriz in Paris (1972-76), with whom he also collaborated for radio and TV broadcasts. From 1976 until his death, he gave art classes in various hospitals and non-profit organizations. From 1978 to 1985, he also taught drawing and semiology of art in a Paris high school.

Christophe Verfaille participated in very few group shows: 1985 (Niort), 1991 (Galerie Alessandro Vivas, Paris), 2003 (Carré Saint Vincent, Orléans) and did one solo exhibition at Galerie Alessandro Vivas, December 1996-January 1997, Paris.

Yve-Alain Bois is Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has written extensively on 20th century art, from Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian to post-war European and American art. He has curated or co-curated several exhibitions, notably of the artists just mentioned as well as “L’informe, mode d’emploi” with Rosalind Krauss at the Centre Georges Pompidou and “Ellsworth Kelly: Early Drawings” at the Fogg Art Museum. He is one of the editors of the journal October and a contributing editor of Artforum. Among other projects, he is currently working on the catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings and sculpture.

For the exhibition we will produce a publication with a text on Christophe Verfaille’s work by Yve-Alain Bois.