Kosmos Kandinsky. Geometrische Abstraktion im 20. Jahrhundert
In the organizer's words:
At the beginning of the 20th century, painting underwent a profound change. Artists no longer wanted to depict the visible. They strove for a new visual language that reduced artistic expression to the interplay of colors, lines and surfaces. Geometric abstraction saw these elements as a visual language that reflected the modern world and transcended national borders. Cosmos Kandinsky. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century spans six decades and shows how Geometric Abstraction in all its varieties found new expression in Europe and the USA time and again.
Inspired by the advanced technologies and theories of their time, including concepts of the fourth dimension and the space-time continuum, artists expanded their understanding of space and time. Using images of geometric shapes floating in an indeterminate space, they sought to depict cosmic themes and higher spiritual planes. The central figure of this art movement was Wassily Kandinsky, who laid the theoretical foundations for it with his work Point and Line to Surface.
The exhibition shows 125 works by over seventy artists, including Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Agnes Martin, Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely. Among the more than thirty international lenders are the Courtauld Gallery in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Fondation Beyeler near Basel, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art in Geneva, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
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