Mondrian + Malevich
dal 19/11/2003 al 25/1/2004
Segnalato da
19/11/2003
Mondrian + Malevich
Fondation Beyeler, Basel
At the Center of the Collection. The exhibition traces essential steps in the development of these two great innovators, who drew key impulses from French Cubism. Digested in quite different ways, Cubism led to two wonderfully unique visions of a purely abstract art. With Mondrian - the intuitive master of asymmetry and the right angle - and Malevich - the mystic of the image beyond the painting - the Fondation brings together probably the most radical attempts in modernism to conceive of the painted image as an absolute quality.
At the Center of the Collection
From 20 November 2003 to 25 January 2004
Around the turn of the year, the Fondation Beyeler is setting special accents. First, the entire collection, as far as feasible, is again on display in the illumination of Renzo Piano's museum building. The presentation includes all of the new acquisitions - ranging from Cézanne to Ellsworth Kelly - made since the inauguration in 1997. This provides an opportunity for a reunion with favorite works, but also for a discovery of some that have been seldom seen, as well as many new affinities.
Secondly, the collection presentation centers around a concentrated block of about twenty works each by the two legendary pioneers of geometric abstraction: Piet Mondrian, whose works in our collection are supplemented by significant loans; and Kasimir Malevich, author of the epoch-making 'Black Square' of Suprematism. Malevich has never before made a guest appearance in our museum, nor is he well represented in Swiss museums in general. The exhibition traces essential steps in the development of these two great innovators, who drew key impulses from French Cubism. Digested in quite different ways, Cubism led to two wonderfully unique visions of a purely abstract art. With Mondrian - the intuitive master of asymmetry and the right angle - and Malevich - the mystic of the image beyond the painting - the Fondation brings together probably the most radical attempts in modernism to conceive of the painted image as an absolute quality.
The catalogue to 'Mondrian + Malevich' is published in a bilingual edition (German and English) by Verlag Minerva, Wolfratshausen, and contains an essay by Markus Brüderlin. Approx. 100 pages with approx. 50 color reproductions (CHF 39.00).
The supplementary volume to the collection catalogue is published in a bilingual edition (German and English), to be followed at a later date by a bilingual edition (French and Italian) by Verlag Minerva, Wolfratshausen. It contains descriptions of approx. 25 works. Approx. 55 pages with approx. 25 color reproductions (CHF 19.00).
Press Contact: Catherine Schott
Phone: + 41 (0)61 645 97 21, Fax: +41 (0)61 645 97 39
Opening hours of special exhibition:
10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. daily; Wednesdays until 8.00 p.m. (except 31.12.03)
The Museum is closed on 24 and 25 December 2003!
Image:
Kasimir Malevich
The Woodcutter, 1912
Oil on canvas, 94 x 71.5 cm
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101, CH-4125 Riehen
Basel