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Exhibition July 2022
At the Heart of the Abstraction. Collection Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Fondation Maeght is unveiling 100 works from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art (Geneva) and offers a riveting immersion into abstraction from the 1950s to the 1980s. Conceived chronologically the exhibition path offers insights into four decades of creativity during which artists revisited the very foundations of painting in the wake of the war and envisioned new forms of expression. Structured into nine thematic segments, the exhibition charts the evolution of non-figurative art and its various trends.
Loan June 2022
Vieira da SilvaL’œil du labyrinthe
The Musée Cantini, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Marseille, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, in partnership with the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Paris-Lisbon, are presenting a retrospective of the internationally renowned Portuguese-born artist, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992). The event brings together eighty iconic and seminal works from the artist’s career, scattered in private collections and a number of prestigious French institutions.
Loan June 2022
The Shape of Freedom : International Abstraction after 1945
Supported by the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, the exhibition The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 opens at the Museum Barberini. It focuses on the two most important currents of abstraction following World War II: Abstract Expressionism in the United States and Art Informel in western Europe.
Loan April 2022
An American Woman in Paris
Shirley Jaffe, an American painter who settled in Paris in 1949, is a referential figure in abstract painting at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. She claimed, provocatively, to have discovered Pierre Bonnard in New York, then Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol in Paris. This exhibition constitutes her first retrospective.
