Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler offers a fresh review of Pierre Bonnard’s entire career

RIEHEN.- With the exhibition “Pierre Bonnard”, the Fondation Beyeler celebrates one of the most fascinating of modern artists. With more than 60 paintings by the renowned French colorist on loan from international museums and private collections, the show provides a fresh review of Bonnard’s oeuvre and development. It covers his entire career from his beginnings with the Nabis through Symbolism and Impressionism to his ever more colorful and abstract late works. The paintings depict familiar scenes with bathers, views of the artist’s garden, [...]

Monet masterpieces to be brought together at Tate Liverpool’s major exhibition for 2012

LIVERPOOL.- Five important Monet water lily paintings will be brought together in Tate Liverpool’s major exhibition Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings from 22 June – 28 October 2012, two of which have never been shown before in Britain. The Water-Lily Pond c1917-19 lent by the Albertina, Vienna, and Water Lilies 1916-19, lent by Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel are the works which will go on show for the first time in the UK. They will join three other Monet water-lily paintings in the exhibition: [...]

First exhibition in Switzerland devoted to Surrealism opens at Fondation Beyeler in Basel

BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler is devoting the first-ever comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland to Surrealism in Paris. On view will be major works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, and many more who either belonged to the movement or were associated with it. The show will focus on the innovative forms of expression developed and employed by the Surrealists – especially object art, collage, photography and film. Surrealism was one of the most crucial artistic and literary movements of the [...]

Third solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes on view at Galerie Max Hetzler

BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler presents the third solo exhibition of Beatriz Milhazes, featuring four large scale paintings and a mobile, which were the subject of her solo show at Fondation Beyeler in Basel earlier this year, as well as recent collages. Central to the exhibition are four monumental canvases of different sizes on the theme of the four seasons. They are composed of stylized, ornamental floral motifs and geometric forms which are symptomatic of Beatriz Milhazes’ oeuvre, as is the transfer technique [...]

Specific Objects without Specific Form by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at MMK in Frankfurt

FRANKFURT.- The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hosts the final leg of the traveling retrospective, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form”, previously shown at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Including both rarely seen and more known paintings, sculptures, photographic works, and public projects, this major exhibition reflects the full scope of the Gonzalez-Torres’s short but prolific career. Born in Cuba, Gonzalez-Torres settled in New York in the late 1970s, [...]

Fondation Beyeler Exhibition Shows Giovanni Segantini as a Pathfinder of Modernism

BASEL, SWITZERLAND.- Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) is known as an outstanding painter of the Alps and the lives of farmers and their animals there. Born in Arco on Lake Garda and destined to remain stateless throughout his life, the artist was relentlessly driven higher and higher into the mountains. An unusual life led him from Milan and the Brianza region to Switzerland, from Savognin to Maloja in Engadine. His artistic activity was guided by reverence for the Alpine realm and nature: [...]

Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Basel Explores Vienna: 1900, Klimt, Schiele and their Times

BASEL.- With the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna around 1900 was one of the cradles of modern art. The Fondation Beyeler is mounting the first comprehensive exhibition ever devoted in Switzerland to this theme, curated by Barbara Steffen. On view will be about 200 paintings, water-colors and drawings, supplemented by architectural models, furniture, textile designs, glass and silver objects, artists posters, and photographs. At the center of our exhibition of Viennese modernism stand the renowned ornamental portraits and landscapes [...]

Fondation Beyeler Marks Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Fiftieth Birthday with Large Retrospective

BASEL.- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 –1988) was one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities in the art world. After starting on the New York underground scene as a graffiti sprayer, musician and actor, he began to devote himself to painting at nineteen. His highly expressive, energetic work soon found wide admiration. Supported by Andy Warhol, he advanced to become an internationally acclaimed star. He was the youngest Documenta participant ever, and exhibited at Art Basel, the Venice Biennale, and various [...]

100 Years After the Death of Henri Rousseau, Fondation Beyeler Celebrates with Exhibition

BASEL.- One hundred years after the death of the French artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an exhibition to this pioneer of modernism. Forty outstanding works provide a concise overview of the development and diversity of his oeuvre. A customs official, Rousseau had no formal art training and initially painted in his free time. Many years passed before his art, non-academic and long considered merely naive, found recognition in the Paris salons. In addition to the legendary [...]