With the exhibition YVES SAINT LAURENT – FORMS, the modernity and the enduring vision of the couturier finds a new echo. Through a fascinating spatial arrangement, the artist Claudia Wieser dialogues with textile and graphic arts pieces from the museum's collections 

The exhibition presents some forty models by Yves Saint Laurent – both haute couture and ready-to-wear garments – accessories and sketches, which resonate with the settings and works by the German artist. This original experience definitively places the designer's genius in our times.

Throughout his career, the legendary grand couturier Yves Saint Laurent never ceased reinventing forms.  

In 1958 already, when he was artistic director at Christian Dior, he asserted his modernity by signing the "Trapeze" line. This geometric silhouette became iconic and became part of fashion history.

From the 1960s, his creations combine simplicity of cut, rigor of line and frankness of color. His work echoes modern artistic trends of the time - simple and geometric abstraction, constructivism and concrete art - whose many movements mirror the multi-faceted talent of Yves Saint Laurent.

Radical, the couturier designed minimalist dresses, often monochromatic compositions as if they had sprung from a single line: a bold, precise gesture was the underpinning of his art.  

As a colorist, he imagines pure yet exuberant abstract compositions, born from the juxtaposition of flat surfaces in vibrant hues. Transposing pictorial material into textile, he thus balanced color, form, surface and line.  

Illusionist, he would juxtapose black and white to suggest movement in the garment through an optical illusion. By using flat, simple lines, form prevailed over color. 

Finally, the couturier had fun by playing with geometry, assembling endless colored prisms like fragments with daring partitions.

Curves or right angles, spheres or broken lines, this round of forms is staged by the German artist Claudia Wieser. Influenced by the intuitive and spiritual work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, the artist explores geometric constructions of modernist inspiration. 

Known for her immersive and contemplative installations, Wieser offers us a totally immersive experience. For the YVES SAINT LAURENT – FORMS project, Claudia Wieser presents several of her own works, some of which have never been shown before.