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Upcoming exhibition September 2024
Narrative Figuration
Another Pop Language
To mark its 75th anniversary, the Musée d'art de Pully will present from September 13 to December 15, 2024, an exhibition dedicated to Narrative Figuration. With a selection of more than 80 artworks from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, the exhibition visitors to rediscover this less-known movement of the 1960s and 1970s artistic scene.
Loan September 2024
Ferdinand Springer
Gesture and mind
Following an exceptional donation, the Musée Jenisch Vevey highlights the work of painter-engraver Ferdinand Springer (1907–1998) in the exhibition Ferdinand Springer: Gesture and mind. Objects from past civilisations, including three works from the Fondation, put in perspective the practice of this Swiss artist of the 20th century.
Loan September 2024
CONTEXTILE 2024
Contemporary Textile Art Biennial
For its 7th edition, the CONTEXTILE biennial, dedicated to contemporary textile art, dreams big. More than 1300 artists from 79 countries gather in Portugal's small town of Guimarães. For the first time, the manifestation includes a retrospective highlighting the work of Catalan artist Josep Grau-Garriga. On this occasion, the Fondation loans one of the artist's most iconic tapestries.
Loan July 2024
Antoni Tapiès, The Practice of Art
The second stage of the exhibition Antoni Tapiès, The Practice of Art, marking the centenary of the birth of Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012), opens on July 17 at the Fundació Antoni Tàpiès. With more than 220 works, including two artworks on loan from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, the exhibition shines a light on his career from 1943 to 2012.
Loan June 2024
Senteurs célestes
arômes du passé
The exhibition Senteurs célestes, arômes du passé (Heavenly scents, aromas of the past), presented at the Site archéologique Lattara, Musée Henri Prades, in Montpellier from the 20th of June 2024 to the 3rd of February 2025, invites its visitors to explore the history of scents in the ancient Mediterranean. Two works from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art are on loan for the occasion.
Loan June 2024
Vivre et mourir en Égypte
The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art lends ten works to the Musée d'Aquitaine, located in Bordeaux, for the exhibition Vivre et mourir en Égypte (Living and Dying in Egypt) running from the 27th of June to the 3rd of November 2024. This exhibition offers an unprecedented exploration of the cultural exchanges that took place between the Greeks and Egyptians during the Ptolemaic era.