23.08.14 – 16.11.14
Today Is Tomorrow
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889 – 1943) ranks among the most important Swiss artists of the twentieth century. A woman of many talents and a master of form, colour and material, she created an oeuvre combining the highest demands on quality and consistency in the fields of design, painting, textiles, drawing, sculpture, architecture, dance and scenography. Including more than 300 works, the exhibition Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Today Is Tomorrow provides the opportunity to explore, in unprecedented depth and breadth, the artist’s way of thinking and working across art forms and thus to fully appreciate her achievement as a pioneer of modernism.
On view are larger groups of works from all her fields of activity that provide a basis for understanding Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s artistic methodology. Visitors will thus encounter oil paintings, reliefs and paper works that had a profound influence on the concrete/constructive visual language of the 1930s. Also included are less noted works: textile designs, woven objects, costume designs and jewellery that were ahead of their time, yet met with little response in the fine art context. In the exhibition, applied and autonomous artworks are displayed side by side, thus rendering palpable formal connections between art forms: for Sophie Taeuber-Arp, today’s creative process always already held solutions for tomorrow.
