Jean Dubuffet at the Rijksmuseum

Jean Dubuffet believed public art should take the form of ‘Monumental works whose great scale gives them authority, presented with solemnity in an appropriate setting, away from the restless hustle and bustle of the streets.’ The calm and spacious setting of the Rijksmuseum gardens offers Dubuffet’s large sculptures of the Hourloupe cycle precisely the sort of surroundings the artist had in mind. This is the fifth volume in a series of publications accompanying the annual sculpture exhibition in the Rijksmuseum gardens