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.
21 January 2021 - 16 May 2021
Calder, Soulages, Vasarely… Abstractions plurielles1950-1980Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
The years following the Second World War saw a great artistic effervescence. Paris regained its status as cultural capital and once again attracted painters from all over the world. The geometric trend, with its roots in the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, experienced new developments. At the same time, an emerging generation of artists revolutionized abstract art by transcending gesture and material thanks to new techniques and tools, making it possible to rethink painting and its supports.
Curator : Yan Schubert
Mémorial de Caen, Caen (FR) 14 July 2020 - 31 January 2021
La Libération de la peinture 1945-1962
The exhibition, La Libération de la peinture, 1945-1962* opens its doors on 14 July at the Mémorial de Caen (France). Through a selection of seventy-five works taken from its collection, the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, in collaboration with the Mémorial de Caen, invites visitors to discover how the traumas of the Second World War had a long-term effect on the course of art, leading many European artists to invent a new pictorial language, capable of expressing the personal and social torments of their generation. This major exhibition is curated by the Foundation’s curatorial team, who are also responsible for the richly illustrated accompanying catalogue.
Past exhibitions
Archéonimaux
Musée archéologique du Val d'Oise, Guiry-en-Vexin (FR)
12 October 2019 - 20 September 2020
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
