{"id":4531,"date":"1994-05-29T11:03:53","date_gmt":"1994-05-29T09:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunstmuseum.mscg-it.de\/?post_type=exhibition&#038;p=4531"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:22:03","slug":"fernand-leger-le-rythme-de-la-vie-moderne-1911-1924","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstmuseum.de\/en\/exhibition\/fernand-leger-le-rythme-de-la-vie-moderne-1911-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernand L\u00e9ger. Le rythme de la vie moderne (1911-1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Info<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition, prepared in close cooperation with the Kunstmuseum in Basel, does not survey the whole career of Fernand L\u00e9ger (1881-1955) but concentrates on his early works. This is the first exhibition exclusively devoted to L\u00e9ger&#8217;s cubist, machine and classical paintings of the period 1911-1924.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00e9ger is one of the great artists of Modernism. His works achieve a synthesis of life, art, and society. Their forms express an entirely new artistic science: that of whole-hearted identification with the rhythm of modern life, and with everyday humanity. The years 1911 through 1924 represent a high point of L\u00e9ger&#8217;s artistic career. The first section of the exhibition traces the evolutionary process that culminated in L\u00e9ger&#8217;s Contrast of Forms, works in which he contrasts solid objects, blocks, tubes, spheres with each other. The experience of being a soldier in World War I led L\u00e9ger to abandon this kind of abstraction. Modern warfare waged machanically, with human beings en masse, utterly transformed his world-view. Contact with machines (railroads, automobiles, movie cameras, machine guns) caused perception itself to be mechanized. One of the earliest examples of L\u00e9ger&#8217;s machine period (1917-24) is the Card Players, from the Rijksmuseum Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller, Otterlo. In this masterpiece, hitherto rarely seen outside the museum, human beings themselves look like robots. L\u00e9ger&#8217;s paintings of the immediate postwar period are full of forms reminiscent of steamships, cranes, railroad viaducts, bridges, propellers, engines, cylinders, ball bearing and cogwheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clear forms and glowing colours of the painting The Disks are elements of a machine in motion. L\u00e9ger does not illustrate an engine but invents it, using purely pictoral means. Another dynamic interplay of contrasting forms and colours is The Mechanical Elements, one of his finest works, now in the \u00d6ffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For L\u00e9ger, a painting was a beautiful object that had function autonomously. This particularly applies to the classical figures in Breakfast and to the later &#8220;Human Machines&#8221;. L\u00e9ger made no distinction between painting a person and painting a machine: to him, both were architectural constructs of colour and form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the works of his machine period, L\u00e9ger used filmic techniques such as wide-angle shots, close-ups, jump cuts, and staccato rhythms. He was so fascinated by the motion-picture medium that he worked on a number of productions himself and in 1924 made a short film of his own, Le Ballet m\u00e9canique. A rhythmic visual sequence of objects, figures, fragmens of figures, and machine parts, this film will be an integral part of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg &#8211; as well as L\u00e9ger&#8217;s set designs for the Swedish Ballet in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition Fernand L\u00e9ger 1911-1924 Le rhythme de la vie moderne contains some seventy paintings, and a dozen gouaches. A central work is the painting The Cit, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has not been in Europe since 1956. 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