As the curator of the exhibition, Ulf Kuester, explains, what we tend to retain above all generally from Mondrian is his neoplasticism, when he paints surfaces with the help of lines placed at right angles in black, white and primary colours.īut there is in fact a natural evolution to his work which was kickstarted with figuration. It has the title “Mondrian Evolution” and features 89 paintings dedicated exclusively to his slide from figuration towards abstraction. There was once a Dutch painter who depicted trees, landscapes and cathedrals and would end up painting surfaces of colours separated by lines. Why does the artist decide to change style as if overnight? For the occasion of its summer exhibition, the excellent Beyeler Foundation in Basel has chosen one of the great textbook cases of the genre: Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). In all major visual creation there lies a dormant mystery.
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