André Cadere belonged to a vibrant generation of avant-garde artists whose careers were cut short by premature death (in the span of 1975–78, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Blinky Palermo, and Cadere all passed away). Given the flaneurlike nature of his “promenades,” in which he would tote his brightly painted “barres de bois rond” (bars of round wood), the appearance of Cadere in photographs documenting these walks seems even more spectral today. Information on the artist is notoriously difficult to come by; monographs are hard to find, and the traveling exhibition originating at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, is the first institutional show of his work since 1996. So the accompanying catalogue, André Cadere: Peinture sans fin, is important not only for those eager to have

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