© Mondrian
Art Basel 2012, foire internationale d'art contemporain Messezentrum Messeplatz 1 Bâle Suisse
Galerie Françoise Paviot presents two publications for two groups of photographs that will be presented at our booth.
Mondrian : Thirty photographs and a publication which bring together the iconography of Piet Mondrian in a single volume for the fist time.
It includes the photographs from the visit of André Kertesz to the Parisian studio but also those of Mondrian life in Paris and New York.
Kimura : an outstanding discovery. A collection of twenty-two modernist photographs, among them important works by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, and Margaret Bourke-White, hidden from Western eyes for eight decades. It has been assembled by Japanese photo critic Senichi Kimura (1900-1938) who promoted Western avantgarde photography in Japan around 1930 in the Tokyo-based magazine Photo Times.
© Kimura
In 1931-32, Kimura travelled to Europe and the U.S. to meet the most prominent avantgarde artists of the time: an ingenious group portrait shows him in the company of Man Ray and Lee Miller. The iconic birds eye view down from the Berlin radio tower László Moholy-Nagy created in the late 1920s is but one example for Kimura’s unfailing eye and his collections high key standard.
And from Dieter Appelt, Übertragung einer Bewegung 1982
© Dieter Appelt
Vignette : © Mondrian