until Sunday May 23 2021

Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
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Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
48001 Bilbao
Spain

https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/kandinsky#themes

Vasily Kandinsky
As a pioneer of abstraction and a renowned aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is among the foremost artistic innovators of the early twentieth century. In his endeavor to free painting from its ties to the natural world, Kandinsky discovered a new subject matter based solely on the artist’s “inner necessity” that would remain his lifelong concern.

More so than any other artist, Kandinsky is intertwined with the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, established in New York in 1937. Industrialist and museum founder Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting Kandinsky’s work in 1929 and met him at the Dessau Bauhaus the following year. This exhibition draws from the foundation’s extensive holdings to illustrate the full arc of Kandinsky’s seminal career.

Curator: Megan Fontanella
Organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Picture: Black Lines (Schwarze Linien), December 1913 (detail), © Vasily Kandinsky, VEGAP, Bilbao 2020