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Raymond Hains (1926-2005) is considered one of the most important French artists of the second half of the 20th century. Along the experimental work on photography and film that he first developed in the 1940s and 1950s, Hains is known for his affiches lacérées: from 1949, with fellow artist Jacques Villeglé, they began using posters torn from ways to create ready-made hypergraphics and "paintings". Read the full biography

Raymond Hains (1926-2005) is considered one of the most important French artists of the second half of the 20th century. Along the experimental work on photography and film that he first developed in the 1940s and 1950s, Hains is known for his affiches lacérées: from 1949, with fellow artist Jacques Villeglé, they began using posters torn from ways to create ready-made hypergraphics and "paintings". This neo-Dada spirit would inform the rest of his career. Often associated with Nouveau Réalisme (1960), Raymond Hains pioneered a singular vision of art: he initiated a vocabulary based on literature, philosophy and esotericism, towards linguistic speculations. He constantly created new forms (from the Palissades starting in 1959 to the Sidewalk Sculptures and Macintoshage - computerized manipulations of the 1990s) across all the poetic, playful and visual possibilities of the language.