For the winter of 2023-2024, the Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux explores abstraction through its 20th century collections. Around 80 rarely shown artworks retrace a varied, subjective history of non-figuration in dialogue with the late 19th-century avant-garde movements that form the core of MuMa’s permanent display.

 

Setting out from the disappearance of the subject, the exhibition invites us to reflect on some of the forms taken by abstract art - still lifes featuring diluted shapes (in the works of André Masson, Fernand Léger and Albert Gleizes), erasure of the landscape (Nicolas de Staël, Olivier Debré and Geneviève Asse), purely visual or geometric language (Jean Hélion, Maurice Estève and Léon Gischia), emphasis on gesture and a feeling for Informalism (Zao Wou-ki, Camille Bryen, Albert Féraud and Julius Baltazar), focus on materials (Ladislas Kijno, Théo Kerg and Marc Devade), and so on. MuMa takes us on a cerebral voyage, a journey through artistic universes, sensations and colours that offer themselves to us as an alternative explanation of the world, a window onto different perceptions through the evolution of Modern Art.

 

Other artists include:
Reynold Arnould (1919 – 1980)
Henri-Georges Adam (1904 – 1967)
Geneviève Asse (1923 – 2021)
Julius Baltazar (1949 –)
Jacques Brachet (1928 –)
Camille Bryen (1907 – 1977)
Jean-Claude Cairon (nc – nc)
Manolis Calliyannis (1926 – 2010)
Nicolas Carrega (1914 – 1993)
Roger Chastel (1897 – 1981)
Chu Teh-Chun (1920 – 2014)
Olivier Debré (1920 – 1999)
Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885 – 1979)
Marc Devade (1943 – 1983)
Pierre Doutreleau (1938 –)
Jean Dubuffet (1901 – 1985)
Maurice Estève (1904 – 2001)
Albert Féraud (1921 – 2008)
Léon Gischia (1903 – 1991)
Albert Gleizes (1881 – 1953)
Madeleine Grenier (1929 – 1982
)Étienne Hajdu (1907 – 1996)
Jean Hélion (1904 – 1987)
Théo Kerg (1909 – 1993)
Ladislas Kijno (1921 – 2012)
Jean Labellie (1920 – 2021)
Jacques Lagrange (1917 – 1995)
André Lanskoy (1902 – 1976)
Jean Lasne (1911 – 1940)
Fernand Léger (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Lesieur (1922 – 2011)
John Levee (1924 – 2017)
André Lhote (1885 – 1962)
Alfred Manessier (1911 – 1993)
André Masson (1896 – 1987)
Michèle Moreau-Levacher (1942 – 2012)
François Morellet (1926 – 2016)
Roger Mühl (1929 – 2008)
Zoran Mušič (1909 – 2005)
Cesare Peverelli (1922 – 2000)
Jean Piaubert (1900 – 2002)
Jean Pougny (1894 – 1956)
Simone Prouvé (1931 –)
Endre Rozsda (1913 – 1999)
Gustave Singier (1909 – 1984)
Nicolas de Staël (1914 – 1955)
François Stahly (1911 – 2006)
Jacques-Adrien Tremblé (1935 – 2007)
David Tremlett (1945 –)
Magdeleine Vessereau (1915 – 2000)
Vandresvelde ( nc – nc)
Renée Vautier (1898 – 1991)
Jacques Villon (1875 – 1963)
Zao Wou-Ki (1920 – 2013)