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29/3/2003

Expressive!

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

The quality of expressiveness - an outcry of the human soul against the mechanization of life - runs like a 'red scar' through the entire history of modern art, down to the present day.

Fondation Beyeler is addressing this fundamental twentieth-century theme in an exhibition comprising about 200 paintings, sculptures and specimens of graphic art: EXPRESSIVE!.

The nucleus of our presentation will naturally be formed by historical Expressionism: Die Brücke, the artists group established in 1905 in Dresden (Kirchner, Heckel, and for a time, Nolde); the early Austrian Expressionists (Kokoschka, Schiele); and Der Blaue Reiter (Marc, Kandinsky) in Munich. Yet we will also look back to their predecessors, from the forefathers of Expressionism - El Greco, van Gogh, Gauguin - through Munch, Ensor and Modersohn-Becker, down to the French Fauves (Derain, Matisse). Also represented will be the successors of classical Expressionism, both from the interwar period (Beckmann, Soutine, Picasso) and of the postwar years (Dubuffet, de Kooning, Bacon).

Then EXPRESSIVE! will proceed by way of Neo-Expressionism (Baselitz, Lüpertz, Lassnig) to the New Wild Painters or Neo-Fauves of the 1980s (Clemente, Basquiat, Disler). The review will be rounded off by the art of Bourgeois and a 1990s video installation by Nauman. Like previous Fondation Beyeler exhibitions, the present one, with its outstanding works and surprising conception, promises to be an intriguing illustration of a central theme in modern art.

The catalogue contains essays by Donald Kuspit, on the overarching theme of 'the expressive,' and Markus Brüderlin, on Expessionism from the viewpoint of Neo-Expressionism, as well as considerations of individual major works. German and English, 208 pages with 155 plates, of which 153 in colour, soft cover, CHF 58.-.

Artists

I. El Greco
Francisco de Goya
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Gauguin

II. Edvard Munch
James Ensor
Georges Rouault
Lovis Corinth
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Cuno Amiet
Ferdinand Hodler

III. Maurice de Vlaminck
André Derain
Henri Matisse

IV. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Emil Nolde
Erich Heckel
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Max Pechstein
Otto Mueller
Albert Müller
Hermann Scherer

V. Wassily Kandinsky
Franz Marc
Alexej von Jawlensky
August Macke
Robert Delaunay
Lyonel Feininger

VI. Egon Schiele
Oskar Kokoschka

VII. George Grosz
Otto Dix
Max Beckmann
Chaim Soutine
Max Ernst
René Magritte
Paul Klee
Pablo Picasso

VIII. Jean Dubuffet
Louis Soutter
Karel Appel
Asger Jorn
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Alberto Giacometti
Max Gubler
Varlin
Francis Bacon
Andy Warhol

IX. Georg Baselitz
Markus Lüpertz
Anselm Kiefer

X. Martin Disler
Francesco Clemente
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Rainer Fetting
Albert Oehlen
Walter Dahn
Jirí Georg Dokoupil
Martin Kippenberger
Maria Lassnig
Louise Bourgeois
Bruce Nauman

Image: Bruce Nauman
Anthro/Socio (Rinde Spinning), 1992
12 Bildplatten, 6 Bildplattenspieler,
6 Monitore, 3 Projektoren 800 x 800 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle
© Photo: Elke Walford
© 2003 by ProLitteris

Fondation Beyeler
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