Inside Jean Dubuffet's Alternate Reality

On the occasion of our New York exhibition of work from Jean Dubuffet's Hourloupe cycle, Pace Founder and Chairman Arne Glimcher recounts his early experiences with the artist in the 1960s and looks back on the gallery's first exhibition of his work in 1968. In this film, featuring rarely seen archival photographs and footage, Glimcher also sheds light on the significance of the Hourloupe—Dubuffet's longest lasting series, comprising painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and architecture—in the context of the artist's practice. "The grotesque becomes beautiful, the beautiful becomes banal—the work is dancing," he says.