Buffalo, NY – Today the Albright-Knox Art Gallery announced that the exhibition Hervé Tullet: Shape and Color, which was scheduled to open at Albright-Knox Northland on May 15, will be postponed until the summer of 2021.

Due to the ongoing health concerns related to COVID-19, and given the fact that this exhibition is based on community gatherings and crowd-sourced content, postponement is a matter of public safety. However, the artist’s web series is free and available to all, which can be a useful creative resource for parents and children at home during this crisis. Tullet has developed his own artistic language made of scribbles, splotches, and lines with which he expresses his ideas. He explains to children how to create their own ideal exhibitions in this web series, which can be found here.

About the Artist

Hervé Tullet is an artist, performer, and author of children’s books, born in Normandy, France, in 1958. After studying illustration and visual communication, he worked for about ten years in advertising.

In 1994, his first children’s book, Comment papa a rencontré maman, was published by Le Seuil Jeunesse. Recognition was not long in coming. Tullet received the Non-Fiction Prize at the Bologna International Book Fair in 1998 for Faut pas confondre. His books, which favor following a path as opposed to a narrative, quickly made a name for themselves. He connects to children from early childhood onward because his books can be touched as much as they can be read. His illustrations, which often approach abstraction, and his unique narrative style invite readers to become part of the book.

Press Here, published in 2010, synthesizes his art in its purest form, creating magic with just three dots: yellow, red and blue. A critical and public success, Press Herehas been translated into more than thirty languages. Tullet’s follow-up books includeMix it Up!, Let’s Play!, and Say Zoop!

Based in the United States since 2015, Tullet has led numerous workshops in prestigious venues, such as the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Guggenheim Museum. He has also mounted exhibitions of his own work at the Invisible Dog Art Center in New York (This Isn’t Trash, 2017) and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Art Explosion, 2017).

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