Wednesday November 18 2009 / Arts & Philosophy
Paris Central: European Masters from the Fifties
The Cobra Museum for Modern Art (Amstelveen) presents the exhibition Paris Central. Free City, Free Art in the Fifties from 23 October 2009 to 17 January 2010. In the 1940s and 1950s, Paris was the centre of European art. Famous artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, Georges Mathieu, Arnulf Rainer, Nicolas de Staël, Antoni Tàpies and Bram van Velde all chose to live in this vivacious and inspiring city. In this exhibition, an ode to lyrical abstraction, action painting, l'art informel and material painting, masterpieces have been brought together from the oeuvres of over 30 European masters.
A philosophical, cultural and political discussion will be held to accompany this exhibition. After a short introduction to the exhibition (including images), Franck Gribling (artist and art historian), Ger Groot (writer and Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen), Katja Weitering (curator Cobra Museum) and Marike van der Knaap (arts historian) will talk about European art from Paris in the fifties in relation to other postwar disciplines and contemporary movements. The interaction between Paris and New York will also be debated.
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