14 Facts About Raymond Hains

Raymond Hains was a French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau realisme movement.

In 2017, Raymond Hains was selected as an artist for the main exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennale.

Galerie Max Hetzler has been working with the estate of Raymond Hains, led by Thomas Raymond Hains, since 2014.

Raymond Hains was born on November 9,1926, in Saint-Brieuc, Cotes-d'Armor, France.

Raymond Hains studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes for six months before leaving to travel to Paris.

Shortly after enrolling in the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Raymond Hains decided to leave school and move to Paris.

Raymond Hains then met Andre Breton, to whom he showed his work.

Raymond Hains had effectively developed a new kind of camera, the Hypnagogoscope.

Raymond Hains made use of procedures adapted from pre-war Dada and Surrealism with hypnagogic abstract photographs, often produced with the help of distorting mirrors.

In 1949, Raymond Hains produced his first black and white short film: Saint Germain-des Pres Colombiens.

Raymond Hains attended Lettrist performances, particularly appreciating the work of Francois Dufrene, Isidore Isou and Gabriel Pomerand.

In 1953, Raymond Hains published Heperile eclate in collaboration with Villegle.

In 1956, Raymond Hains met the art critic Pierre Restany at Yves Klein's home.

Also in 1964, during the Venice Biennale, Raymond Hains presented Biennale dechiree and four years later the Biennale eclatee : for which he deformed the catalogue covers of each National Pavilion through a prism of fluted glass.