Galerie Zlotowski and Galerie Roger-Viollet joined forces to present original works by Sonia Delaunay alongside photos evoking the artist's world.

Abstract painter, fashion designer, graphic artist, successful entrepreneur, godmother of abstraction, explorer of artistic media—Sonia Delaunay managed to be all of these things almost simultaneously. This profusion can be explained by a conception of art that transcended the traditional framework of drawing and canvas and set out to conquer life itself.
Sonia Delaunay was forever breaking down the boundaries between the visual and the decorative arts, whilst remaining faithful to the principles of Simultanism, a concept of abstraction based on interactions between colours that she developed with her husband Robert in the 1910s.
The exhibition featured emblematic works of this colourful abstraction, with drawings on paper and paintings on canvas (from 1907 to 1979, the year of the artist’s death).
But “Sonia Delaunay, la Simultanée” goes still further, showing pieces that are emblematic of the taste for innovation and exploration that made Sonia Delaunay’s career so original: fashion drawings, book covers, tapestry projects, graphic experiments, lithographs and, even more unexpectedly, a mosaic and playing card designs!

With some forty works on show, “Sonia Delaunay, la Simultanée” was held jointly at Galerie Zlotowski and Galerie Roger-Viollet.
The final part of the exhibition, in the Galerie Roger-Viollet, was devoted to works that fall outside the field of drawing or painting stricto sensu. Playful and surprising projects that Sonia Delaunay ventured into throughout her long career.

Galerie Roger-Viollet also presented photos from the Roger-Viollet collection, evoking the world of Sonia Delaunay through the artists and places she frequented.