03.10.2024 – 19.01.2025
Gauguin, who grew up in Paris in the 1870s as a successful banker, only decided in favour of fine art late in life. His first joint exhibitions with the Impressionists initiated a career full of obstacles and rejections. Closely linked to a longing for the new and distant, both in his visual language and his way of life, Gauguin was hostile and misunderstood throughout his life. Today, under the aspects of post-colonialist discourse and debates on sexism and abuse, we are questioning the figure and attitude of an artist whose formally aesthetic, new and exciting work continues to inspire us. The exhibition, curated by Evelyn Benesch, features over 80 loans from major international museums and important private collections and follows Gauguin from his beginnings as a post-impressionist to his pioneering role as one of the fathers of modernism, encompassing all facets of his oeuvre: painting, graphic art and sculpture.
Gauguin – Unexpected
03.10.2024 – 19.01.2025
Kunstforum Wien
Freyung 8
1010 Vienna
https://www.kunstforumwien.at
