Art Of The Day Weekly
#511 - from 19 April 2018 to 25 April 2018
Ferdinand Hodler, Lake Thun with symmetrical reflections, 1905, oil on canvas, 80,2 x 100 cm © Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, photo : B. Jacot-Descombes.
IN THE AIR
Parallel exercises for Hodler
GENEVA – Throughout the year, Switzerland will be celebrating one of its most famous painters, Ferdinand Hodler, who died on 19 May 1918 in an apartment in Geneva on the quai du Mont-Blanc. Among the various exhibitions this one at the Musée Rath with the support of the Bern Kunstmuseum’s rich collection confronts him to no one else but himself. It takes its clue from a conference the painter himself gave in 1897, when he was at summit of his art, at age 44, in which he turns into theories his idea on correspondences (referring to forms – lines, symmetry -, feelings, figures, or even an artist’s production through time) that inspired his work. In the midst of the Symbolist era, here is another approach to the matter that already haunted Baudelaire so.
Hodler//Parallélisme at the musée Rath, from 20 April to 19 August 2018.