Si conclude il 5 Gennaio una bella mostra su Fernand Léger al Philadelphia Museum.
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This
interdisciplinary exhibition will shed new light on the vitally experimental
decade of the 1920s in Paris when the great French modernist Fernand Léger
(1881-1955) played a leading role in redefining the practice of painting by
bringing it into active engagement with the urban environment and modern mass
media. This will be the first exhibition to take as its inspiration and focus
Léger’s monumental painting The City (1919), a cornerstone of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection and a landmark in the history of modern
art, placing it in dialogue with the urban art and culture of modernity.
The exhibition
will present a core group of Léger’s exceptional paintings on the theme of the
city, along with film projections, theater designs, architectural models, and
print and advertising designs by the artist and his contemporaries. In a
multi-media installation of more than 120 works, including loans from American
and European public and private collections, this exhibition will demonstrate
the varied strategies through which artists and designers of the European
avant-garde, with Léger in the lead, sought to participate in the complexity
and excitement of the metropolis. The exhibition will also feature work by
Cassandre, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Alexandra Exter, Abel
Gance, Le Corbusier, Piet Mondrian, Gerald Murphy, Francis Picabia, Man Ray,
and many others.
Sponsors
The exhibition is
generously supported by The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Bruce and Robbi Toll, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Annenberg
Foundation Fund for Major Exhibitions, Sotheby’s, Mitchell L. and Hilarie L.
Morgan, and an anonymous donor, and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on
the Arts and the Humanities.
Promotional
support has been provided by the Museum’s broadcast media sponsor, NBC 10 WCAU,
and by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, Atout France,
Sunoco, IKEA, DesignPhiladelphia, and Reading Terminal Market.
Curator
Anna Vallye,
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art
Location
Dorrance Special
Exhibition Galleries, first floor
