He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Tel Quel, co-founder and editor of Painting, Theoretical Notebooks, and was one of the main leaders of the debates on the relationships between practice and theory in the field of visual arts.
[5][4] The painter's first exhibition opened at the Le Haut Pavé gallery in Paris in 1970.
[6] The artist dedicated his practice in the Supports/Surfaces movement to integrating aesthetic, philosophy, and political ideology.
[3] Instead his intention was for the ink and colors to make the canvas forgotten, to put full focus on the dispersion of light and layering.
[3] 1998 Exposition dédiée à l'activité, l'oeuvre et la mémoire de Marc Devade, Galerie Gérald Piltzer, Paris, France[7] Marc Devade, dessins, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France[8] 1989 Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France[1] 2019 Unfurled, Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, MOCAD[9] 2018 Supports/Surfaces, Galeria Mascota[10] The Surface of the East Coast: Supports/Surfaces from Nice to New York, Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner[11] 2007 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France[12] 1971 Peinture, cahiers théoriques, n°1, Galerie Yvon Lambert,[13] Paris, France 1970 Supports/Surfaces, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, A.R.C., Paris, France[11]