Zurich hopes Cézanne will pull the crowds
Zurich's museum of fine arts has unveiled plans for a major exhibition by the French painter, Paul Cézanne, which it hopes will attract crowds of visitors.
Zurich’s museum of fine arts has unveiled plans for a major exhibition by the French painter, Paul Cézanne, which it hopes will attract crowds of visitors.
More than 80 oil paintings, 40 aquarells and drawings will be on display from May 5 to July 30, in an exhibition entitled “Paul Cézanne: finished-unfinished”. The title is intended to highlight the large number of incomplete works, which will be on display.
The exhibition will also reflect recurring themes in Cézanne’s work, such as female bathers and the Sainte Victoire mountain in the south of France. It is currently on display in Vienna.
Other events in the museum’s programme this year include an exhibition by the Zurich photographer, Jakob Tuggener. It will be the first time a photographic exhibition has been displayed in the museum’s great hall. Tuggener’s photographs will be on show from February 4 to April 9.
Later in the year, from August 25 to October 29, visitors to the fine arts museum will be able to see another photographic exhibition: “Magnum millennium”. This will present an unusual and little-known aspect of Magnum photo agency’s collection – the photographic essay.
And finally, the museum’s last big exhibition of the year will be “Hypermental”. It will take on the ambitious task of attempting to show how art perceives reality. Among the artists featured will be Duchamp, Dali, Bruce Nauman and Jeff Koons. This exhibition will run from November 17 to January 21, 2001.
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