If you have not yet had the opportunity to know the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, now you have a new pretext with the Art in War exhibition, which you can visit until the September 8 this year 2013. This ambitious exhibition shows the artists' response to the dramatic environment of the Second World War in France, covering the period between 1938 and 1947. It becomes “an exploration of the relationship between art and war". La exposure L'Art en guerre. France, 1938−1947: from Picasso to Dubuffet comes from Paris, and is made in collaboration with the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris-Musées.
With the sponsorship of the BBVA Foundation, more than 500 works by a hundred artists are presented, which includes documents, photographs and even unpublished films in which the artists are shown “they made war on war“. At the Guggenheim you will be able to see works by more than a hundred artists, among whom are Pierre Bonnard, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Óscar Domínguez, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Jean Fautrier, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger , René Magritte, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Joseph Steib, Yves Tanguy and Wols.
In the different sections of the Guggenheim exhibition This process of artistic creation is analyzed from different perspectives. After locating the historical period, it shows how situations such as exile, deprivation of freedom or the Liberation in 1944 influenced the creative process. Among the various thematic areas, there is the one dedicated to Picasso, who during his stay in Paris suffered special persecution by the Gestapo and his art was considered degenerate by the official Vichy Regime, or to the Jeanne Bucher Gallery, an Alsatian who opened a simple gallery to house the works of artists marginalized by the Occupation.
The Visiting hours for the Art in War exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum They are, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m. It is closed on Mondays, although in July and August you can visit the exhibition every day of the week. Here you can check ticket prices, which are variable, depending on the exhibitions shown in each era. These prices include the use of the audio guide to visit both the permanent collection and the exhibitions. You have more information in the accounts of Twitter y Facebook.
Comment