ART GENEVE 2019

For the 2019 edition of the Art Geneva fair, the Le Minotaure gallery offers an exceptional journey of the great moments of non-objective art from the 1920s to the 1950s, with particular attention paid to international movements and associations such as Cercle and Carré, Concrete Art (1930) or even Abstraction-Création (1931), without forgetting the famous Salon des Réalités Nouvelles (1946), a cenacle of abstract art which sent everyone running through Paris at the end of the Second World War .

The common thread of this presentation will be Léon Tutundjian, artist of Armenian origin, pioneer of the genre and active member of the movements mentioned. His work – singular and sometimes astonishing – still remains to be discovered and its true value recognized by collectors and the general public.

Thus, we will show Tutundjian’s path which leads him from the still surreal and biomorphic universe (the pieces of the second half of the 1920s) towards an increasingly refined and constructed idea of the work of art which finds its apogee in the reliefs created by the artist around 1929 which announce the research of the groups Cercle et Carré, Art Concret and Abstraction Création. In order to situate Tutundjian on the international artistic scene of the time, to show his affinities with the creators who were contemporary with him but also his influence on new generations, our exhibition will also present the works (oils on canvas, gouaches, collages, sculptures) artists such as: Auguste Herbin, Frantisek Kupka, Carl Buchheister, Etienne Béothy, Serge Charchoune, Wolfgang Paalen, Georges Folmer and Jean Gorin.