Kandinsky's Spitz-Rund on display, after restoration, in Mondovi

At the Mondovi Ceramics Museum will open on November 15, 2018 the exhibition"Kandinsky, Harmony Preserved. Behind the Scenes of Restoration," which can be visited by the public until Feb. 3, 2019.

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be"Spitz-Rund," an oil on cardboard work created by Kandinsky in 1925, which has been kept at GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo since 1999.
Spitz-Rund means “sharp-rounded” and refers to the geometric figures in the painting: geometries and lines overlap placing forms, sounds and colors in dialogue. “The triangle is always yellow and is sharp and unpredictable,” compared to the ringing sound of the trumpet, “the circle, on the other hand, is simple, complex and mysterious figure, a symbol of the universe,” and is associated with the color blue, deep and pure, and the grave sound of the double bass or cello, or the deep sound of the organ."

The painting underwent anin-depth diagnostic analysis by the Conservation and Restoration Center “La Venaria Reale” to study the work itself and to define the materials and methods of intervention.

The exhibition will also present the stages of analysis and restoration with photos, graphs, videos and the tools used, as well as introduce the complex stratigraphy of the painting and the materials used.
The exhibition project is a collaboration between the CRC Foundation, the City of Bergamo, GAMeC and the Conservation and Restoration Center "La Venaria Reale."

“After the great interest aroused last year by the project on Manet, also this year the Foundation wanted to bring to Mondovi the’work of a world-renowned artist, placing the moment dedicated to the exhibition to the public within the framework of a project broader project of research and commitment on the conservation front, which made it possible to discover and present unpublished information on the creation, conservation and history of the work,” said Giandomenico Genta, President of Fondazione CRC.

GAMeC Director Lorenzo Giusti added: “The Bergamo Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is among the few Italian museums to boast a work by Kandinsky in its collections.Since 1999, when entrepreneur Gianfranco Spajani and his wife Luigia donated his own collection to the City of Bergamo with the intention of establishing an initial nucleus on which to base the development of the museum’s collections, Spitz-Rund has become one of the most celebrated works of our heritage, and the subject of major international loans.The opening of this exhibition, at the conclusion of a campaign of diagnostic investigations that has gained valuable information about the painting’s history, now represents a unique opportunity for the public to admire one of the masterpieces of the father of Abstractionism outside the walls of GAMeC.”

The exhibition is open Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission.

For info: www.fondazionecrc.it

Image: Wassilij Kandinsky, Spitz-Rund (1925; oil on cardboard applied to panel, 72.5 x 32 cm; Bergamo, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea)

Kandinsky's Spitz-Rund on display, after restoration, in Mondovi

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