Kandinsky. La musique des couleurs
Editions Centre Pompidou
Event
Kandinsky La musique des couleurs
Artist
Vassily Kandinsky
Description
The Centre Pompidou and the Musée de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris are partnering to design and produce a major exhibition on the imaginary world of music in the work of Wassily Kandinsky. Presented at the Philharmonie de Paris from October 14, 2025, to February 1, 2026, this exhibition brings together nearly 200 of the master's works and objects from his studio (scores, records, books, tools, etc.), all expressing the fundamental role of music in his daily life, in his vocation as a painter, and in the evolution of his practice toward abstraction.
No exhibition has previously addressed this subject comprehensively, and especially has placed the painter's output, from Russian landscapes to Bauhaus works, within the musical effervescence of his time. There is no doubt, however, that the experiences of Alexander Scriabin, Thomas von Hartmann, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern define the essential listening horizon for pictorial modernity and abstraction. From the Wagnerian "shock" experienced by Kandinsky in 1896 during a performance of Lohengrin in Moscow, to the discovery of Schoenberg's atonal works in 1911 in Munich, from his attempts at a new form of "total art" on stage to the teaching provided at the Bauhaus, music is an essential key to appreciating the work of the Russian artist.
Descriptions & Features
- Dimensions
- 23 x 31 cm
- Publication year
- 2025
- Number of pages
- 240
- Number of illustrations
- 200
- EAN
- 9782386540295
