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28.01 - 22.04 2012
‘Klee en Cobra’ reveals the mutual fascination of both Paul Klee and the Cobra artists for the wondrous, imaginary world of the child. In all, over 130 masterpieces by Klee and 120 Cobra highlights - including works by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Eugène Brands, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky - have been brought together from collections in several countries. Visitors experience how Paul Klee, as well as the post-war Cobra artists, translated the free expression of the child into a radical new art, which still today is colourful, expressive, spontaneous, raw and pure.
Klee en Cobra has been made possible through a collaboration with Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.
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Winner 2011 Cobra Art Prize
10.12 2011 - 04.03 2012
The 2011 recipient of the Cobra Art Prize is Nathaniel Mellors (b. 1974, Doncaster, England; lives and works in Amsterdam). Mellors was awarded the prize because of his unique visual world and the powerful impact that his work has on its viewers. His inventive cross-fertilization between visual arts, music, theatre and text are consistent with the spirit and the multidisciplinary character of the Cobra artists. For the exhibition, Mellors presents a mise-en-scène in which cell fragments from his ‘Ourhouse’ series, new photographs, mysterious, glowing sculptures and objects from the Cobra Museum collection all nestle together in the exhibition gallery. The artist has designed this constellation as a single installation, which investigates the theme of ‘objectification’.
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06.05 - 09.09 2012
For the first time, this exhibition takes a more concentrated look at the poem drawings of Lucebert (1924-1994), the poet and artist who was a member of the Cobra movement and the Vijftigers, the pioneering group of experimental poets. In his liberating and timeless poem drawings, Lucebert set free his innovating language of word and image. The exhibition also focuses attention on the printed materials that Lucebert designed for others, including book covers and illustrations for the writers and poets who were his friends, including Remco Campert and Bert Schierbeek. The exhibition shines new light on the inspiring double talents of Lucebert.
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06.05 2012 - 09.09 2012
This multifaceted summer presentation places the tumultuous history of the evolution and the reception of the Cobra movement in the context of the 1940s and 1950s. With the support of film images and documentary materials, works from the Cobra Museum collection reveal a range of fascinating stories about Cobra. Several contemporary artists have been invited to use the expressions of the Cobra artists as a starting point for investigations of their own.
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20.10 2012 - 06.01 2013
In the autumn of 2012, the first retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands will take place of the work of the leading Icelandic avant-garde artist, Svavar Gudnason (1909-1988). Gudnason studied in Paris in the 1930s, with Fernand Léger and others. He became acquainted with Cobra through his contacts with the Danish avant-garde scene and was the first Icelandic artist to develop an abstract expressionist style. This international retrospective exhibition includes works from Gudnason’s entire artistic development. It has been made possible in collaboration with the National Museum of Iceland and the Carl-Henning Pedersen og Else Alfelts Museum in Herning and the Skovhuset Museum, both in Denmark.
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The Cobra Museum is pleased to present a long-awaited tribute to the Dutch-Belgian artist, Bram Bogart (b. 1921). At age 90, Bogart is an éminence grise of 20th century post-war painting. His artistic development took place in the turbulent transition from figurative to abstract art. At the beginning of the 1950s, Bogart was working in an attic studio in the famous warehouse on rue Santeuil in Paris, where Karel Appel and Corneille were also staying. In Paris, he developed a completely idiosyncratic abstract painting, based on an expressive treatment of paint. Bram Bogart’s monumental material paintings earned him worldwide fame.
With the aid of spaces arranged by theme, the exhibition presents highlights from this rich body of work. It brings attention to the shift from figuration to abstraction, to the characteristic painting style that Bogart built up with powerful strokes of paint, his preference for geometric compositions and his use of primary colours. The exhibition also includes work by artists with whom Bram Bogart felt strong kinship, including William Turner, Constant Permeke, Mondrian, Lucio Fontano, Willem de Kooning and Bart van der Leck.
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