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until Sunday July 04 2021

Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka
T : +81 03-5766-1094
Midosuji 5F, 2-8-16 Shinsaibashi-suji, Chuo-ku
542-0085 Osaka
Japan

https://www.espacelouisvuittontokyo.com/en/osaka/mitchell/detail

Joan Mitchell / Carl Andre’ : Fragments of a Landscape Exhibition

Abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell structured her art around her desire to faithfully translate nature counterbalanced by a subjective and violent expressive force. Her chromatic sensuality, supported by the conspicuous structure of her works, refocused her paintings on the landscape in the 1980s, as evidenced by Untitled (1979) and Cypress (1980). On the other hand, Carl Andre’s minimalist oeuvre shows a rigorous execution and an explicit rejection of symbolism. His works, made of fundamental materials equivalent in form and structure, shall have no meaning of their own and bear no trace of his intervention, as seen in Draco (1979-2008) and its typical relationship to the space. Espace

Louis Vuitton Osaka’s inaugural show, Fragments of a landscape, reveals the richness of these major artists’ seemingly conflicting views, between violently coloured expressive freedom and unvarnished geometric rigor.

The works, which belong to the Collection, are presented within the framework of the “Hors-les-murs” programme of the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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