Fondation Beyeler enhances collection presentation with loans
Published: Thursday, Nov 2nd 2023, 15:01
Updated At: Friday, Nov 3rd 2023, 00:54
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The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen BS presents its collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces in a new way. It has also enhanced the show with high-caliber loans.
The exhibition entitled "From Cézanne to Tillmans - Fondation Beyeler Collection remixed" focuses primarily on sometimes surprising dialogues between different artists or works: These include juxtapositions of landscape paintings by Cézanne, Monet, Gauguin, and Ferdinand Hodler.
From the latter, with a view of Lake Brienz from 1906, an outstanding work by this artist can be seen, which has not been publicly exhibited since 1917.
This is a loan that exhibition curator Ulf Küster has interspersed in the refreshed collection presentation. The same applies to the sculpture "Spider IV" by Louise Bourgeois. This work made headlines last summer when it was sold to an American collector at Art Basel for $22.5 million. The spider has now temporarily found its way back to Basel and Riehen.
The recently acquired painting "Le désespoir de la vieille" (2020) by Marlene Dumas is presented for the first time as part of the collection. As one of the new focal points of the Fondation Beyeler's collection, a separate room is now dedicated to the South African artist.
The new collection presentation will be on display until January 2, 2024.
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