18 Feb 2022
20 Jan 2023

CÉZANNE, THE LIGHTS OF PROVENCE // KANDINSKY, THE ODYSSEY OF ABSTRACTION

ATELIER DES LUMIÈRES - PARIS

« CEZANNE, THE LIGHT OF PROVENCE »

Via a thematic and intimate itinerary that promotes reflection, discover Cezanne’s inner torment, the power of his compositions, his approach to light and colour, and his link with nature, which was his greatest source of inspiration-his obsession.

Dive into nature, under the vast canopy of the trees, forests, parks, and gardens where the bathers can be seen, ending with the Cezannian representation of nature par excellence: Bibémus and l’Estaque, culminating in the Mont Sainte-Victoire.

His paintings are also deeply and completely sincere, conveying the artist’s uncertainty and passion. View representations that reflect the artist’s personal life: the self-portraits that capture his inner torment, the sobriety that resulted from the slow pace of daily life in Aix-en-Provence, and the intimacy of his studio.


« KANDINSKY, THE ODYSSEY OF ABSTRATCTION »

After the exhibition on Cezanne, discover a 10-minute creation based on works of the artist Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).

The immersive exhibition is composed of two distinct parts: his figurative work and the advent of abstraction. The first part evokes the artist’s early figurative work, influenced by Impressionism, oniric Fauvism, and, to some extent, pointillism. Plunge into Kandinsky’s memories, Russian folklore, and the country’s legendary capital.

The second part is more experimental, highlighting the force of movement and the rhythm offorms and colour. Immersed in a chromatic explosion, discover the most significantworks of this modernist impetus—Composition VIII (1923) and Yellow-Red-Blue (1925)—up tothe biomorphic works of his last years. Becoming closer to music, painting gradually shiftedaway from representational constraints and no longer used the real world as a reference butthe inner self instead.

A veritable invitation to explore Kandinsky’s inner cosmos, the immersive exhibition disorientates you and eventually attains an abstract and liberated osmosis.

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