Source: MoMA, New York
Commemorating the centennial of the moment at which a series of artists invented abstraction, the exhibition is a sweeping survey of more than 350 artworks in a broad range of mediums—including paintings, drawings, prints, books, sculptures, films, photographs, recordings, and dance pieces—that represent a radical moment when the rules of art making were fundamentally transformed. Half of the works in the exhibition, many of which have rarely been seen in the United States, come from major international public and private collectors. The exhibition is organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.
Roughly one hundred years ago, a series of rapid shifts took place in the cultural sphere that in the end amounted to the greatest rewriting of the rules of artistic production since the Renaissance. Invented not just once, but by different artists in different locales with different philosophical foundations, abstraction was quickly embraced by a post-Cubist generation of artists as the language of the modern.
The exhibition takes an international perspective, and includes work by artists from across Eastern and Western Europe and the United States, such as Hans Arp (German/French, 1886–1966), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941), Kazimir Malevich (Russian, 1879–1935), Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944), and many others.
Highlights of the exhibition include Pablo Picasso's "Woman with a Mandolin" (1910), Vasily Kandinsky's "Komposition V (Composition V)" (1911), Piet Mondrian's "Tableau No. 2 / Composition No. VII" (1913), Giacomo Balla's "Velocità astratta + rumore (Abstract speed + sound)" (1913-14), Kazimir Malevich's "Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" (1915), and Fernand Léger's "Les Disques (The disks)" (1918).
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