ART GENEVE 2020

For the 2020 edition of Art Genève, Galerie le Minotaure is offering an exhibition around Russian (and Russian-speaking) artists from the First and Second School of Paris, as well as those belonging to the avant-garde movements of the beginning of the century : cubism, futurism or purism.
We find names such as Marc Chagall, Jean Pougny, Sonia Delaunay and Kirill Zdanevitch.
The works of Serge Férat and Léopold Survage recall the adventure of “Soirées de Paris”, an avant-garde magazine founded by Apollinaire and financed by the fortune of Baroness d’Oettingen. We will exhibit one of Survage’s “Colorful Rhythms” which demonstrates the interest that avant-garde artists had in the links between painting and music.
In the years 1924-1926, Léon Tutundjian – a young artist of Armenian origin – like many others of his generation, sought to free himself from the plastic vocabulary of Braque and Picasso by embarking on a path which inevitably led towards abstraction. At this time, alongside works anchored in the expressionist and surrealist universe, he produced a series of collages straddling figuration and abstraction.
For the Russian artists of the Second School of Paris Serge Charchoune and André Lanskoy play the role of father figures. Charchoune as one who from the 1910s participated in avant-garde movements such as Dada and Purism; Lanskoy as the one who – following the path of Kandinsky – took the plunge into abstraction in the years 1940-44, thus showing new solutions to younger painters unable to escape the impasse of geometry. Among the youngest, we must mention Youla Chapoval, winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 1949.
A separate place on our stand will be reserved for the Spatial Composition (1950) by Georges Folmer, one of the leaders of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, created in 1946 as a continuation of the ideas of Abstraction Creation. The work in question reflects the artist’s commitment to integrating the visual arts into daily life and the architectural environment. Neither painting nor sculpture, it is made of wooden volumes assembled in three dimensions and polychromed.