LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
November 2021
November 19, 2021–February 27, 2022
Paul Klee: Between Two Worlds creates unexpected dialogues between works from different periods of the artist’s creative life and a series of objects and documents from his personal collection, highlighting his interest in the question of “art’s origins.” Organized into four major chapters, the exhibition brings together 120 works and focuses on the way in which children’s drawings, prehistoric art, non-Western art, and what is often referred to as “the art of the insane” led Paul Klee to rethink his art and, in particular after the traumatism of the First World War, situate it “between two worlds”: between search for origins and allegiance to modernity.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Flammarion in German and French, with texts by Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Osamukuda, Sébastien Delot, Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt, Savine Faupin, Christophe Boulanger, Maria Stavrinaki, and Morad Montazami.