(Henri Matisse, Jazz. Paris,
Tériade, 1947. Stencil prints. Pl. VIII. Icare. Donation Alice Tériade, 2000. Musée
départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis. © Succession H. Matisse. Photo
Philip Bernard)
The
Standard Bank Gallery will host an exhibition of works by the French modern
master, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) from July 13 to September 17, 2016.
Henri Matisse | Rhythm and
Meaning will be the first wide-ranging exhibition of
Matisse’s work to be held in South Africa, and the fourth exhibition of
important 20th-century modernists to be held at the Standard Bank Gallery. The Gallery previously hosted monographic
exhibitions focusing on the work of Marc Chagall, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.
The
exhibition will include a number of paintings, drawings, collages and prints
covering all the dominant themes in the artist’s body of work, from his early
Fauvist years, through his interest in exoticism and orientalism, to the paper
cut-outs that he produced in the last years of his life.
The
core work in the exhibition will be the full suite of 20 impressions for the
prints in the artist’s book Jazz - some of the best known and most celebrated of the artist’s
works.
In
collaboration with the Standard Bank, the Embassy of France in South Africa,
the French Institute of South Africa, and the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau
Cambrésis (France), the exhibition will be co-curated by Patrice Deparpe,
Director of the Musée Matisse, and Prof Federico Freschi, Executive Dean of the
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.
The
works will be drawn primarily from the collection of the Musée Matisse – which
was established by Matisse himself in 1952 – and will be augmented with works
from private collectors, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. An extensive educational programme, aimed at
primary and secondary school learners as well as the general art-loving public,
will support the exhibition.
Henri Matisse | Rhythm and Meaning is also presented with the support of Air France,
Total and Air Liquide.
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