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KAREL APPEL

A Dutchman and founder of the Co.Br.A group in 1948, he is one of the advocates of a return to a childlike primitivism and an abandonment of the formal and rational rigidity of the previous era: the result is figurative-gestural works, realised with brushstrokes of jet and material, violent colours, in which references to the culture, ancestral myths and legends of the Nordic countries abound. Works by colleagues Corneille and Lindström are also on display.

LE CORBUSIER

Swiss, naturalised Frenchman, Le Corbusier is one of the leading figures in 20th century architecture. As well as being a world-famous architect, Le Corbusier is also an artist, and a great promoter of drawing as a privileged means of analysis and research. On show will be works, drawings and projects, exploring the artistic and pictorial component of this eclectic figure.

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE / JEAN TINGUELY

An indissoluble couple, in life and in art, in the tireless confrontation between two opposing visions, heated and sometimes violent, they found continuous nourishment for their artistic expression. For one, art was an instrument of struggle, rebellion and derision, for the other a means of personal and gender emancipation: together they wrote the history of Nouveau Réalisme.

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SERENA MAISTO / RAUL

In the project ‘One. Two. Andy’, two artists interact with the myth of Andy Warhol, portrayed in a shot by the American photographer Karen Bystedt. If Maisto does so by reflecting on the motif of the almost cellular disintegration of the image, Raul instead concretises his reflection on photography through the pictorial, instinctive and primordial gesture typical of his production.