Since 2011, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art lends its works to the most prestigious institutions in the museum world so that they can be discovered by as many people as possible : from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid to the Hermitage in Lausanne, from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
The Foundation wished to briefly retrace the purpose of the exhibitions for which it has lent works. These texts are largely inspired and drawn from the sites relating to the exhibitions of the borrowing institutions, for which they are thanked here. The Foundation is pleased to be able to contribute to the influence of the artists and the different cultures exhibited through these loans.
Académie des beaux-arts, Paris 12 October 2023 - 26 November 2023
Éloge de l’abstraction.
Les peintres de l’Académie des beaux-arts dans les collections de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
The exhibition presents twenty-five paintings from the abstract art collection of the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art. These works illustrate the artistic careers of seven former members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. All contributed to the birth of a new abstraction known as informal art.
Mémorial de Caen, Caen, France 22 June 2023 - 31 December 2023
Années pop, années choc
1960-1975
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art and the Mémorial de Caen present “Années pop, années choc, 1960-1975”, their second exhibition crossing art and history, opening on June 22 at the Memorial. The show will delve into social, political, and cultural protest movements in France from 1960 to 1975. It will present the figurative paintings of artists like Eduardo Arroyo, Erró, Gérard Fromanger, Eulàlia Grau, Ivan Messac et Bernard Rancillac, who brought a critical reflection on their time, from the Vietnam war in the aftermath of May 68.
Curators: Stéphane Grimaldi, Yan Schubert
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen 10 February 2023 - 8 January 2024
Martin Barré. Les œuvres de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Following Simon Hantaï (2020) and Judit Reigl (2021), abstract painter Martin Barré takes the central stage of this third edition of the partnership between the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains and the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art. The exhibition "Martin Barré. Les oeuvres de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art", presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen from February 10 to September 18, 2023, spotlights an artist now considered one of the most inventive in post-war European painting.
Curator: Bertrand Dumas
Past exhibitions
At the Heart of AbstractionCollection Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (FR)
2 July 2022 - 23 October 2022
Archaeonimals. Man and beast, a shared story
Forum Antique de Bavay, Bavay (FR)
13 May 2021 - 31 August 2021
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles1950-1980Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
2 March 2021 - 21 November 2021
Archéonimaux
Musée archéologique du Val d'Oise, Guiry-en-Vexin (FR)
12 October 2019 - 20 September 2020
The Fondation Gandur pour l’Art connects painting and music at Saint-Germain
Church of Saint-Germain, Geneva (CH)
7 July 2019 - 15 September 2019
Histoire de l'art cherche personnages...
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (FR)
20 June 2019 - 22 March 2020
Noir, c'est noir ? Les Outrenoirs de Pierre Soulages
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (CH)
5 November 2016 - 23 April 2017
Ancient Egyptian Art and Magic
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (JP)
5 January 2016 - 21 March 2016
The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)
6 october 2015 - 23 november 2015
FUKUI FINE ARTS MUSEUM, FUKUI (JP)
3 july 2015 - 30 august 2015
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa (JP)
17 april 2015 - 21 june 2015
Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt
Osaka National Museum, Osaka (JP)
10 October 2015 - 27 December 2015
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo (JP)
7 JULY 2015 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2015
Migrations divines
MUSÉE DES CIVILISATIONS DE L'EUROPE ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE (MUCEM), MARSEILLE (FR)
24 June 2015 - 16 November 2015
Corps et esprits. Regards croisés sur la Méditerranée antique
MUSÉE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE, GENEVA (CH)
31 January 2014 - 27 April 2014
Ancient Egypt - Art & Magic. Treasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, ST. PETERSBURG, FL (US)
17 December 2011 - 29 April 2012
Les Sujets de l'abstraction. Peinture non-figurative de la seconde école de Paris, 1946-1962. 101 Chefs-d’œuvre de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Musée Fabre, Montpellier (FR)
3 December 2011 - 18 March 2012
Les Sujets de l'abstraction. Peinture non-figurative de la Seconde École de Paris, 1946-1962. 101 Chefs-d’œuvre de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Musée Rath, Geneva (CH)
6 May 2011 - 14 August 2011
Reflets du divin. Antiquités pharaoniques et classiques d'une collection privée
MUSÉE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE, GENEVA (CH)
30 August 2001 - 3 February 2002
