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Wassily Kandinsky
1896: Kandinsky leaves Moscow and goes to Munich to study art
1921: Kandinsky enters the Bauhaus in Weimar
It is between these two dates that one of Russia’s leading artists completes his stylistic development which then takes him on to produce some of the most revolutionary art and theory of the avant-garde.
The exhibition at the Fondazione Mazzotta in Milan traces the development which took place during these years, from which emerges an artist caught between Russian religious and popular culture and a drive towards a new way of creating art. The analysis is carried out on three levels: the influence of tradition, the work of his contemporaries, the evolution of Kandinsky.
In three rooms, organised according to theme, over 90 pieces are brought together from Russian collections and museums; icons and popular prints, work by artists such as Malevic and Rodchenko and of course Kandinsky: engravings, paintings and drawings which go from expressionism and fauvism of the early years to abstract experimentation.
Standing out from these is “Composition VII” from 1913, the height of his research, with its articulated and complex making reconstructed with preparatory sketches and drawings.
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
Milano, Foro Buonaparte 50
Info: tel. +39-02-878197 fax +39-02-8693046 e-mail: mazzotta@iol.it
Until 10 June
Closed Monday
