Face to Face with Gustav Klimt
Having come Face to Face with old masters Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Van Abbemuseum visitors to this third display in the series are confronted with works by the more modern master, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918, Vienna). Contemporary artist and designer, Bas Van Beek (1974, Nijmegen) will transform the Van Abbemuseum projects gallery into a complete experience, in which he combines the art of Klimt with furniture and huge tiles of Van Beek's own creation.
A spectacular part of the exhibition is the perfect, full-scale copy of Klimt鈥檚 famous Beethoven Frieze, recently created for the Belvedere museum in Vienna and to be premiered for the first time internationally at Face to Face with Gustav Klimt. Spanning 34 metres, the symbolic artwork from 1902 depicts the suffering of weak humanity and its longing for happiness, captured in Klimt鈥檚 luxuriant signature style.
The more melancholy side to Klimt is expressed in three dark, intense paintings. Photographs of Klimt and his creative environment transport the visitor to early 20th-century Vienna, where lavish ornamentation and symbolism were embraced, and represented an alternative to the sober inclination of the more abstract art movements of the period.
Van Beek based his designs on those of artists, architects and designers inspired by Klimt and the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk.
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Having come Face to Face with old masters Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Van Abbemuseum visitors to this third display in the series are confronted with works by the more modern master, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918, Vienna). Contemporary artist and designer, Bas Van Beek (1974, Nijmegen) will transform the Van Abbemuseum projects gallery into a complete experience, in which he combines the art of Klimt with furniture and huge tiles of Van Beek's own creation.
A spectacular part of the exhibition is the perfect, full-scale copy of Klimt鈥檚 famous Beethoven Frieze, recently created for the Belvedere museum in Vienna and to be premiered for the first time internationally at Face to Face with Gustav Klimt. Spanning 34 metres, the symbolic artwork from 1902 depicts the suffering of weak humanity and its longing for happiness, captured in Klimt鈥檚 luxuriant signature style.
The more melancholy side to Klimt is expressed in three dark, intense paintings. Photographs of Klimt and his creative environment transport the visitor to early 20th-century Vienna, where lavish ornamentation and symbolism were embraced, and represented an alternative to the sober inclination of the more abstract art movements of the period.
Van Beek based his designs on those of artists, architects and designers inspired by Klimt and the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk.
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