There were three works Joaquin Torres-Garcia (Montevideo, 1874-1949) traveled from IVAM to MACA last May, opening a cooperation agreement between both parties. avant-garde context. Now there are two parts wolf schwitters Those who come to Alicante Museum, where they can be seen until 28 May as the second exhibition within the scope of this program that it plans to continue a permanent dialogue Among the works in the IVAM collection Pioneers of the first decades of the 20th century and works from the 20th Century Art Collection.
The purpose is to establish supplementary readings, cross-sectional views, support and context for some pieces that complement a core vision of an era of modernity that reinforces their language and message in communication with others and crosses paths between tradition and the new.
works wolf schwittersThe artist, one of the most radical artists of the 20th century art scene, will live in the first room of the museum with his contemporaries. Julio González, Pablo Gargallo or Juan Gris.
Director of IVAM, Nuria Enguita, “This agreement is part of the will by IVAM to promote a network of contacts. inter-institutional relations serving cultural enrichment, mutual progress and maximum use of resources”.
In this sense, the 20th anniversary of these two works by Kurt Schwitters from the IVAM Collection. reviewing contexts and rereading history from new perspectives.
Cultural Advisor, antonio manresa“At the MACA in Alicante, 20. artifacts never seen in the city and references to art history”.
The mayor said, “It’s nice to see how things are going. The agreement signed between MACA and IVAM continues to bear fruit and a part of the 20th Century Art Collection, this time in dialogue with Schwittersm, which puts them on a different plane”.
Artist
German artist wolf schwitters (Hanover, 1887 – Ambleside, United Kingdom, 1948) The main and most influential heroes of the Dada movement. In 1919 he made his first collages and assemblages with waste materials. He called it Merz, turning them into symbols of a world in ruins. He was a multidisciplinary art independent of traditional artistic traditions, and Merz gave his poems, magazine, theater and collages or sculptural structures their names.
He left his architectural education in his hometown and moved to Dresden, where he visited the Kunstakademie. be a painter After beginnings connected with Impressionism, and a little later with Expressionism, in 1918 he exhibited his first works in the cubo-futurist style at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. A year later he made his first collages and montages.
would become synonymous with Merz new multidisciplinary art he would henceforth carry on independently of the traditional artistic traditions and name his poems, magazine, theater and sculptural-architectural structures (Merzbau). He would describe this artistic process himself as a result of the historical moment in which he lived: «The Great War is over, the world is somehow in ruins, therefore I’m picking up the pieces, building a new reality».
His work was banned by Nazi authorities when they came to power in 1933 and placed on “degenerate art” lists. Knowing that you are wanted by the Gestapo exile to norway Leaving his wife Helma in Germany in January 1937.
After the Nazi occupation of the Scandinavian country fled to Edinburgh by boat. In the UK they saw him as a foreign enemy and he passed by several times. concentration camps, He eventually made a stop at Camp Hutchison on the Isle of Man. After his release, he crossed London and moved to the Lake District in northern England after the war.
He broke his leg in October 1946 after a fall from which he could never recover. He died in Kendal on January 8, 1948; Two days later, he was notified by letter. He was granted British citizenship.