works
32 x 50 cm / 50 x 65 cm with frame
A l’index
pastel sur papier
91,5 x 65 cm
Le collectionneur de petites voitures, ça 1990
encre et crayon de couleur sur papier
41 x 30 cm
sans titre, ca 1970
encre sur papier
60 x 48 cm
Tape à l’oeil, 1983
bombe sur papier
65 x 91,5 cm
Passion brulante, 1973
encre et crayon de couleur sur papier
24,2 x 31,8 cm
Le miracle, 1973
encre et crayon de couleur sur papier
31,8 x 23,8 cm
sans titre, 1976
encre et crayon de couleur sur papier
31 x 44 cm
Visage “face de lune“, ca 1976
pointe sèche
50 x 33 cm
biography
Roland Topor was born in 1938 and died in1997, in Paris tenth district. His work is rich and diverse and protean. An illustrator, a writer, a multitalented artist, he was published in French and foreign papers : Bizarre, Hara-Kiri, Elle, The New York Times, Le Canard enchaîné, Libération, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and so on. He wrote books, he illustrated the works of more than a hundred writers, among them Boris Vian, Marcel Aymé, Félix Fénéon, Tolstoï, Georges Sand, Pierre Benoît… He conceived the scenery and dresses of several plays and operas for Liget, Penderecki, Savary, and others. He wrote film scenarios, plays, songs, tales, novels, and short stories. He acted in William Klein’s, Raoul Ruiz’s, Volker Schlöndorff’s films. He made animated cartoon films such as Fantastic Planet. He took part in many radio and television creations. Among others, he is the author of the programme for children Téléchat, and the co-author of Merci Bernard and Palace. The creator of Panic Movement with Fernando Arrabal, Jacques Sternberg and Alejandro Jodorowsky, Topor had links with several movements and “artist families”, such as Cobra, the Situationist International and Flexus. His drawings and paintings have been shown many times and are owned by several private and institutional collections, among them: Pompidou Centre, Strasbourg museums, the Stedelijk Museum, Warsaw Fine Arts museum, Munich Stadtmuseum, and others in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, the United States…
Solo exhibitions
2023
2022
2019
2018
Panoptikum Roland Topor. Folkwang Museum, Essen, curated by Tobias Burg (from Folkwang museum).
2017
Le Monde selon Topor, curated by Alexandre Devaux and Cécile Chicha-Castex
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
3 X Topor. Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz, Pologne. curated by Marek Zieliński & Alexandre Devaux.
2014
Roland Topor, génie connu et méconnu, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris. curated by Alexandre Devaux.
2004
Topor, dessins paniques. Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg.
Curated by Thérèse Willer and Christian Derouet
1999
Topor rit encore. Maison européenne de la photographie. curated by Patrick Roegiers.
1995
Toporanapoli. Institut français de Naples à Naples, Italie. curated by Laurent Gervereau.
Roland Topor, affiches de théâtre. Fondation Mercedes-Benz, Paris.
Roland Topor plakaty. Centrum Sztuki Studio, Varsovie, Pologne
1987
Topor, Drawings and prints. The Open museum à Tefen, Israël.
1986-1985
Topor, Tod und Teufel. Stadtmuseum de Münich / Musée des Beaux-arts de Paris. Curated by Gina Kehayoff and Christoph Stölzl
1984
Roland Topor, Piccolo Blitz. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Suède.
1979
Tekeningen en grafiek van Roland Topor. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Anvers, Belgique.
1975
Topor, Panic. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas. curated by Ad Petersen.
Group exhibitions
2021
2020
2019
2018
mon enfant peut en faire autant, galerie anne barrault
Sens contre-sens, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis
2017
Festival FIFIGROT curated by Alexandre Devaux, Toulouse
Drawing Now, le salon du dessin contemporain, Carreau du temple, Paris
2016
La famille Topor, curated by Alexandre Devaux, Musée Municipal de la Ville de Sosnowiec – Palais de Schoen, Pologne
TOPOR, MORELLET, SPOERRI : La Volonté de Distance, curated by Alexandre Devaux, galerie anne barrault, Paris, France
TOPOR – SPOERRI – MORELLET, curated by Alexandre Devaux et Barbara Räderscheidt, Ausstellungshaus Spoerri, Hadersdorf-Kammern, Autriche
2013
Citadelles en Suspens, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris. curated by Pacôme Thiellement.
Bibliography
2019
Topor, les chefs-d’œuvre, Les Cahiers dessinés.
Portrait en pied de Suzanne, Les Nouvelles éditions Wombat.
2017
Le Monde selon Topor, Les Cahiers dessinés/Bibliothèque nationale de France.
2016
Topor, Voyageur du livre, tome 2, Les Cahiers dessinés
Topor, Théâtre Panique (deux volumes), + Joko fête son anniversaire, Nouvelles éditions Wombat.
2015
Topor, Voyageur du livre, tome 1, Les Cahiers dessinés
2014
Topor, Dessinateur de presse, Les Cahiers dessinés/ La plus belle paire de seins du monde, Nouvelles éditions Wombat
estate
Gallery anne barrault begins her story with Roland Topor in 2013, with the group
exhibition Citadelles en Suspens proposed by the essayist Pacôme Thiellement.
In 2014, at the gallery, Alexandre Devaux presents the first solo exhibition of
Roland Topor, entitled génie connu et méconnu, which gathers a set of works, most of
them unknown.
Since then, Alexandre Devaux and Nicolas Topor have been essential key figures
who accompany the gallery and its staff in their task of representing Roland
Topor’s works.
In 2017, Alexandre Devaux is the co-curator of Le Monde selon Topor, the great
exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Since 2014 he has published six
books dedicated to Topor.
In 2016, at the gallery, he brings together TOPOR, MORELLET, SPOERRI, and
exhibits some of their works in La Volonté de distance, thus revealing a deep kinship
of mind between these artists.
It is when Anne Barrault meets Daniel Spoerri, whom she has collaborated with
ever since.
In 2018, the group exhibition Mon enfant peut en faire autant (my own child could do
as well) highlights the link between Roland Topor and his son.
In 2019, the group exhibition “Topor n’est pas mort” shows the works of 21 artists,
and proves that his genius still instills into contemporary creation, and that this
richness goes on spreading.
Thank you to Nicolas Topor for trusting us, and Alexandre Devaux for his work
dedicated to Roland Topor.
exhibitions
books & prints
Texts: Laurence Engel, Frédéric Pajak, Alexandre Devaux, Céline Chicha-Castex, Bertrand Tillier and Philippe Garnier
les cahiers dessinés and BnF Editions
2017
22 x 28 cm
240 pages
42 €
Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri, Roland Topor
galerie anne barrault / Panique Publishers
2017
45 €
Foreword of Jacques Vallet and texts of Alexandre Devaux
les cahiers dessinés
2014
17,5 x 23,5 cm
368 pages
35 €