"To arrange the light - that it becomes space", stated André Marfaing (1925-1987). A surprising decision for this artist of abstraction who, very early on, fervently adopted black, a color of rare chromatic and expressive power discovered by the Spanish masters during his trip to Spain in 1957, at the Prado Museum. In front of so much black, one cannot help but think of Pierre Soulages. Marfaing met him in 1952 at the Jeanne Bucher gallery, and Soulages noticed his work and helped him participate in the Junge europäische Künstler exhibition in Berlin in 1954. But Marfaing's originality will manifest itself in the intense relationship created between black and white. A white that seems to overflow from the canvas to merge with that of the studio walls. As if the white prevented the black from taking up too much space, from taking up all the light.