
Dessiner la modernité
Œuvres sur papier de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Presented as part of the Salon Art Genève 2025, this exhibition showcases thirty-five rare works on paper from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art’s collection. These drawings bear witness to the quest for rationality and universality typical of the Purist aesthetic, spearheaded by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, simultaneously marked by the euphoria and challenges of the post-war period. Around the same time, other artists of the Parisian avant-garde, also in search of a plastic language easily accessible at first glance, orchestrated the world into squares, triangles, cylinders, circles, and diamonds. This mechanics of forms was directly inspired by the world of machines whose rhythms would go on to govern human life for a long time.
Curator : BERTRAND DUMAS
This journal was printed along the exhibition Dessiner la modernité. Œuvres sur papier de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art presented at Art Genève from January 30 to February 2, 2025.
