Kandinsky draws from the three largest public holdings of the artist’s work—that of the Guggenheim Museum; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich—as well as renowned institutions and private collections to bring together nearly one hundred paintings dating from 1902 to 1942. Complemented by more than sixty works on paper from the collections of the Guggenheim and the Hilla von Rebay Foundation, this retrospective retraces the painter’s oeuvre, focusing on key events that informed his life and work.
Memory (2008), a new commissioned Cor-Ten steel sculptural installation by Anish Kapoor made its debut at Deutsche Guggenheim in November 2008. The exhibition, which opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 21 as part of the Guggenheim's 50th-anniversary celebrations, presents New York audiences with a site-specific adaption of the work, conceived originally for both exhibition locations.
This exhibition brings together two important works
from the
permanent collection for the first time, illuminating the
profound
dialogue between two contemporary
artists.
Experienced together, Horn’s Gold Field (1980–82) and the
recent acquisition, Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Golden), reflect on the
artists’ respect for the evocative potential of minimal form and the symbolic
valence of pure color. The fragile beauty of the works suspends commonplace
meanings attached to gold as a source of wealth and extravagance, inviting
instead a kind of poetic reverie on its materiality and symbolic resonance.
Kitty Kraus, Untitled, 2006. Ice, ink, light fixture, cable, and
light bulb, dimensions variable. Courtesy Galerie Neu and
the artist. Photo: Gunter Lepkowski
Kitty Kraus (b. 1976, Heidelberg,
Germany) has been invited to exhibit
her work for the second installment
of Intervals, a new contemporary
art series designed to showcase
experimental projects by emerging
artists.
Members of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) on the 26 Ainmillerstrasse
balcony, Munich, ca. 1911–12. Left to right: Maria and Franz Marc,
Bernhard Koehler, Vasily Kandinsky (seated), Heinrich Campendonk, and
Thomas von Hartmann. Photo courtesy Gabriele Münter- und Johannes
Eichner-Stiftung, Munich
This exhibition presents German artist Gabriele Münter’s photographs
along with a selection taken by her companion Vasily Kandinsky,
recording the years they lived, traveled, and worked together between
1902 and 1914.
Pablo Picasso, Le Moulin de la Galette,
autumn 1900. Oil on canvas, 88.2 x 115.5 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York. Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser 78.2514.34
Justin K. Thannhauser was the son of renowned art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser,
who founded the Galerie Moderne in Munich in 1909. From an early age,
Thannhauser worked with his father, building an impressive program of
exhibitions of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and the art of the
contemporary French and German avant-gardes. The Thannhausers’
commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of
Solomon R. Guggenheim. In recognition of this shared spirit, Justin
Thannhauser ultimately bequested a significant portion of his art
collection—including masterpieces by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet,
Picasso, Pissarro, Renoir, and van Gogh—which is on view in a dedicated
gallery, to the Guggenheim Museum.
The work of Post-Impressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris, all informed the development of Expressionist art in the years immediately preceding the First World War. The practitioners of this style, largely working and exhibiting in Germany, crossed paths via various associations and were also deeply influenced by their encounters with Japanese and African art, as well as Germanic folk art. From Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to Franz Marc, artists who came to be associated with Expressionism sought to convey the communicative force of color through vibrantly hued canvases and bold forms.
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