Centre
Pompidou, until 10 august 2009.
The Vasily Kandinsky exhibition at the Pompidou Center is fabulous. It
provides an excellent synthesis of his artistic adventure. The catalog
contains several excellent texts, such as Riccardo Marchi (Kandinsky
and Der Sturm), by Angelika Weissbuch (Kandinsky and Dresden in the
1920s) and Matthias Haldemann (Théâtre de l'image,
abstraction of the abstraction of Kandinsky). The interest of
Kandinsky's life is undoubtedly his wandering. It begins in Munich in
1896, when he left his native Russia. At that time, the Bavarian
capital is one of the most important cultural centers in
Europe. In 1909, he participated in the Neue
Kunstelersvereingung München, and two years later, he was a
founder of the Blaue Reiter. The Blue Rider is one of the most exciting
in Europe. He assumes his work between figurative or lines and colors
dissociate and the beginnings of abstraction. His improvisations are
formed during the following years, emphasizing the growing relationship
between the dynamics of abstraction in relation to music. Two trips
have contributed to the evolution of his thinking on the gradual
deconstruction of the subject: the trip to Tunisia in late 1904 and
early 1905 in the company of Gabriele Münter. Like Klee,
Macke, Marc, Matisse, North Africa enables it to carry out its
metamorphoses bold style. His stay in Paris in 1906 he discovered the
world of plastic Fauvist. Improvisations of the 1911 show he turned a
corner point that symbolizes Lyrism. Relations with members of the Blue
Rider emulation are important. And he is not afraid to face fierce
controversy in 1912. At the end of 1914, he left Russia. When
the revolution broke out, he agrees with passion in education reform by
becoming the artistic director of the Izo. He participated in 1920
helped found the artistic culture, the Inkhouh with Rodtchenko,
Stepanova and other avant-garde artists. It never ceases to multiply
experiences plastic which has led it to paint the red spot No. 2. His
omnipresence, the accumulation of charges him dislike his colleagues.
They also rebelled against his conception of art, too subjective. They
create an institution parallel to the Inkhouh the "working group of the
objective analysis." He was finally ousted from Inkhouk. He
nevertheless time for a major retrospective in Moscow and founded the
Russian Academy of Sciences Arts in 1921. The "5 X 5 = 25" calls into
question the easel painting : Kandinsky is increasingly isolated.
Taking advantage of his position, he proposes to organize a
German-Russian exhibition in Berlin. He went to Berlin with twelve
canvases rolled. There can never return to his homeland. Asks Walter
Gropius to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar, he left in 1933, and will
take refuge in France, his last country.
