the fondation gandur pour l'art
A taste for art, the pleasure of collecting and a desire to share collections
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art was established as a not-for-profit organization by Jean Claude Gandur in 2010, in order to ensure public access to his world-class collections.
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archaeology
Made up of over 1200 objects
this rich collection consists of Egyptian, Greek and Roman bronzes, of outstanding quality, and an ensemble of amulets, one of the world’s richest collections of its kind.
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decorative arts
Nearly 400 art and decorative objects
many of which are examples of 18th-century French furniture and sculpture, dating from the Middle Ages to the baroque art.
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fine arts
Nearly 1000 artworks from the 20th century
with a special focus on abstraction from the Second School of Paris, the CoBrA movement, the Narrative Figuration, the New Realism and Supports/Surfaces.
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ethnology
200 objects from Latin America, over 50 artifacts from other parts of the world
Pre-Columbian objects, Colima, Nayarit or Diquis cultures, Olmec, Aztec and Mayan civilisations: a collection characterised by the complementarity of its themes.
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Exhibition January 2020

Supports/Surfaces

Après la présentation et la confrontation inédites d’œuvres de ses quatre collections l’an dernier pour sa première participation, la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art revient à artgenève en 2020 avec un accrochage centré sur les artistes de Supports/Surfaces, considéré comme le dernier mouvement d’avant-garde.

Loan December 2019

Emilio Vedova Plurimo

L'exposition Emilio Vedova Plurimo est l'une des plus importantes jamais consacrées à l’artiste Italien dont l’œuvre compte parmi les plus influentes du XXe siècle.  Placée sous le commissariat du célèbre citrique d’art Germano Celant, elle est organisée conjointement par la Comune di Milano Cultura, le Palazzo Reale et la Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova.

Loan November 2019

The Assembled Human

Museum Folkwang presents a show that transcends media and epochs to explore the major societal issues and upheavals of the last 150 years. The Assembled Human presents art as a mirror of industrialisation, technologisation and digitisation.

loan October 2019

Par Hasard

From the stain to the pure line, from automatism to mathematics, the exhibition presents a chronological typology of chance as a creative process through the most important currents and artists from the second half of the 19th century to the present day.

Artwork of the month January 2020

A female fertility figure
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Archaeology
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Fine Arts
AD
Decorative Arts
ETH
Ethnology

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