Marc Chagall, The Cattle Dealer, 1912
Chagall. Modern Master
8 February – 12 May 2013
Kunsthaus Zürich
8 February – 12 May 2013
Kunsthaus Zürich
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was one of the great figurative painters of
the twentieth century and since the 1960s the Kunsthaus Zürich has
staged numerous exhibitions devoted to his art. In addition, the museum
houses a dozen or so of Chagall's important paintings, donated by the
artist's family and other generous patrons, which represent various
phases of his artistic career. Between February and May 2013 the
Kunsthaus Zürich will once again celebrate the art of this much-loved
artist with the landmark exhibition, Chagall: Modern Master.
Unlike previous Chagall exhibitions held here, Chagall: Modern Master
will focus primarily on the three years the artist spent in Paris
(1911–1914), and the subsequent period passed in his native Russia
(1914–1922). During these crucial years Chagall established himself as a
pioneer of modern art, and consolidated his unique visual language to
create pictures that were to form the core of his art for the remainder
of his life. Suffused with imagery drawn from Jewish ritual and
folklore, Chagall's paintings of these years responded to the stimuli of
the emerging avant-garde styles as well as to the art of the past.
Chagall experienced modernism's 'golden age' in Paris before the First
World War, and combined elements of Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism to
produce his dreamlike visions that were in turn to influence
Expressionist and Surrealist art. During his sojourn in Russia between
1914 and 1922, Chagall encountered the prevailing artistic trends of
Suprematism and Constructivism. Throughout these artistic phases Chagall
retained his identity as a Jewish artist. His roots in an impoverished
Jewish shtetl would remain significant for his worldview and his
nostalgia for his Hasidic upbringing would remain a dominant presence in
his art.
The exhibition is organized by the Kunsthaus Zürich together with
Tate Liverpool. The curators Simonetta Fraquelli and Tobia Bezzola have
secured the loan of numerous works from major European and American
collections, including the Centre Pompidou – MNAM (Paris), the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum and MOMA (New York), the State Tretyakov Gallery
(Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St Petersburg) and Tate (London).
Fonte:
Segnala.
Amalia di Lanno
Amalia di Lanno
