Jamais le mot créateur (Correspondance 2000-2008)

In 1982, Simon Hantaï - the emblematic figure of abstraction - retired from public life, while he was at the peak of his art.

This radical decision to stop exhibiting seemed to suggest that he was abandoning all ideas of creation. However, it was precisely during this period that he began to deeply reflect on his work, sharing his thoughts with renowned contemporary intellectuals, leaving us his most fundamental publications.