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Notes: RAYMOND HAINSBorn in 1926 in Saint-Brieuc, France.From his early beginnings, his work is characterized by the idea of a total world, in constant referency to photography and language. In 1946, he creates his first abstract photos with prismatic mirrors; the next year, he achieves tessalated glass lenses to distort the images. As early as 1949, he discovers the plastic impact of torn posters on walls and palisades. Shows the "Palissade des emplacements réservés" at the first Biennale de Paris in 1959. He is particularly interested from 49 to 61 in the political posters forming: "La France déchirée".He signs in 1960 the "Declaration of Nouveau Réalisme". From 1964, he often travels to Italy where he creates giant matches and "the Biennale éclatée".Travelling through time and space, images and words, he has created, by a game of verbal coincidences, a personal mythology which brings together emblematically places and characters: artists, dealers, art critics, curators. among others: "L'âne vêtu de la peau de lion" at the gallery del Leone, Venice; "La Manne de San Andrea" at the gallery San Andrea, Milan; "L'art a Vinci" at the gallery Lara Vincy, Paris; "Hommage to the Marquis de Bièvre" at the Fondation Cartier; Jouy-en Josas; "Pâris Paris", Troyes, France; "Guide des collections permanentes ou mises en pli", Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.He has participated in numerous international shows such as "Documenta IV", Germany; "Paris-Paris", "Paris - New-York",Georges Pompidou Center, Paris; "Westkunst", "Bilderstreit", Cologne, Germany etc... He is in many museums and private collections in France and abroad.