KANDINSKY at Pompidou Centre on artrepublic.com
Exhibition running from Apr 08 2009
until Aug 10 2009
A major retrospective of the work of one of the 20th century's key figures, Wassily Kandinsky, this exhibition brings together some hundred of Kandinsky's finished paintings, particularly the Impressions and the Improvisations. This exhibition offers a unique chance to look through the eyes of this painter born in 1866 in Moscow under the Czar, who died in 1944 in Neuilly-sur Seine, a French citizen. It documents the key periods of his artistic career (Munich, Paris / Munich/ Moscow / Weimar, Dessau, Berlin / Paris) through a selection of major paintings dating from 1907 to 1942. Bringing together over one hundred exceptional paintings, this unique exhibition examines Kandinsky’s contribution to modern art, its chronological organisation revealing the logical unfolding of his ideas and his relationship to his time. Wassily Kandinsky experienced two of the high spots of creation in the 20th century: the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) in Munich before the First World War and the Bauhaus at Weimar and Dessau in the inter-war period. The completion of the catalogue raisonné of his work, and recent discoveries in Russia give us an overview of his painting which goes beyond the narrow posthumous conception of him as "inventor of abstraction". The Paris exhibit also provides an update on the constant additions to the Kandinsky collection – exceptional watercolours and manuscripts for the "Russian" period 1914-1917, a portfolio from the Bauhaus for his 60th birthday in 1926… – crucial items brought together and presented to the Pompidou Centre by private collectors and by the Société Kandinsky whose chairman until her death was Mrs. Georges Pompidou, now succeeded by Edouard Balladur. This exhibition is jointly organised by the Centre Pompidou, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (25 October 2008 – 22 February 2009) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (18 September 2009 – 31 January 2010). OPENING HOURS: Daily: 11:00 – 21:00 Image Credits: Slide Show 1: Lyrisches, 1911, Huile sur toile – 94 x 100 cm, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Mention obligatoire :Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,Rotterdam, © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Einige Kreise, 1926, Huile sur toile – 100,5 x 80,5, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Mention obligatoire :Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkSolomon R. Guggenheim Founding, Collection, by gift, © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Accord réciproque, 1942, Huile et laque sur toile –114 x 146cm, Mention obligatoire :Donation, Nina Kandinsky, 1976, Centre Pompidou, Musée nationald'art moderne, Paris, Photo : Georges Meguerditchian, © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Slide Show 2: Composition IX, 1936, Huile sur toile – 113,5 x 195cm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mention obligatoire :Achat de l'État et attribution, 1939, © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Schwarzer Raster, 1922, Huile sur toile – 96 x 106cm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mention obligatoire :Legs, Nina Kandinsky, 1981Centre Pompidou, Musée nationald'art moderne, Paris, Photo : Gérard Blot, © ADAGP, Paris 2009 Moskau I, 1916, Huile sur toile – 51,5 x 49,5, Galerie Tretiakov, Moscou, Mention obligatoire :Galerie Tretiakov, Moscou, © ADAGP, Paris 2009  |
