Fondation Beyeler showcases landscapes between figuration and abstraction, from Monet to Richter

From February 12 to August 14, 2022, Fondation Beyeler presents the exhibition Passages - Landscape, Figure and Abstraction, curated by Raphaël Bouvier, the museum’s curator. This is this year’s first exhibition on its permanent collection and aims to address the theme of the reciprocal relationship between figuration and abstraction in modern art, through more than seventy major paintings and sculptures fromImpressionism, the twentieth-century avant-garde, andcontemporary art.

It will be understood how abstract compositional elements often originate from naturalistic motifs that undergo a process of reduction and transformation, while abstract forms and structures are often transposed into figurative images.

Abstraction and figuration can thus interpenetrate each other: an example is Claude Monet ’s famous Water Lilies, which in the 1950s inspired artists of American Abstract Expressionism to create new compositions.

Among the prominent artists in the exhibition is Gerhard Richter (Dresden, 1932): on the occasion of his 90th birthday, an exhibition room has been entirely dedicated to him with works in the collection and on loan; his artistic production clearly represents the artistic interaction between figuration and abstraction.

Another room is devoted to American artist Agnes Martin (Macklin, 1912 - New York, 2004) and her geometric-abstract compositions, on loan from the Daros Collection.

Works by Lucas Arruda, Francis Bacon, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Claude Monet, Barnett Newman, Balthus, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Ferdinand Hodler, Jackson Pollock, Georges Braque, Vasilij Kandinsky, Gerhard Richter, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Auguste Rodin, Paul Céfangs, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Sam Francis, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell, Henri Rousseau.

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Image: Gerhard Richter, Cloud (1976; oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm; private collection) © Gerhard Richter, 2022

Fondation Beyeler showcases landscapes between figuration and abstraction, from Monet to Richter

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