Art Of The Day Weekly
#537 - from 13 December 2018 to 19 December 2018
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, ca 1952-1953, oil on canvas, 182,8 x 172,4 cm. Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Genève. Photo M. Aeschimann © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
EXHIBITIONS
Khnopff’s secrets
PARIS – Belgium has always been a fertile land for painters of symbols, of mystery, of enigma (as a matter of fact it is the second title stamped on this exhibition). This concerns Magritte, Delvaux of course, and before them Ferdinand Khnopff (1858-1921), the champion of symbolism. The first retrospective dedicated to him in Paris over the last forty years, underlines his eternal feminine – red headed, haloed women, their eyes lost in the horizon, his town – Bruges – as well as his strange home bathed in perfumes referred to through out the visit. One has the feeling of facing an artist with his own internal secret garden – a truly rare and exciting virtue in our time where everything is brought out to the public eye.
• Fernand Khnopff, le maître de l’énigme at the Petit Palais, from 11 December 2018 to 17 March 2019.