Joan Mitchell and Carl Andre at Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka

For its inauguration, the Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka presents Fragments of a Landscape, an exhibition gathering the works of two major American artists: Joan Mitchell, who began painting in the 1950s and is representative of postwar abstract expressionism, and Carl Andre, a sculptor who was an active member of the minimalist movement in the early 1970s. This presentation, part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program showcasing previously unseen holdings of the collection at the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Venice, Beijing, Seoul, and now Osaka, carries out the foundation’s intent to mount international projects and make them accessible to a broader public. 
 
The juxtaposition of these artists reveals the richness of seemingly conflicting artistic currents, between violently colored expressive freedom and unvarnished geometric rigor. The shared radical nature of their approaches creates tension around and between their works and the space they occupy.