Marc Chagall at Gianadda Foundation

The exhibition of the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny, “Chagall – Entre Ciel et Terre” [Chagall – between Heaven and Earth], is part of an already long-standing collaborative effort with the prestigious Tretyakov National Gallery in Moscow. To celebrate the 120th birthday of the artist, this summer’s exhibition harks back to the great 1991 exhibition, “Chagall in Russia”, with a rich diversity of works created by the artist during the years spent in his native country. This exhibition revealed to the public for the first time the seven panels from the Moscow Jewish Theatre, restored thanks to the support of the Pierre Gianadda Foundation, and subsequently a triumphant success in numerous museums and galleries throughout the world.

“I sometimes have the impression that I am really someone else, that I have been born, one could say, between heaven and earth, that the world for me is a great desert where my impassioned soul wanders….but, the more I work the more I have tried to align these paintings with this distant dream”, wrote Marc Chagall in 1973 about his human and artistic journey.

Today, the journey we propose recounts the poetic universe of the artist who sometimes clings to the earth, showing an astonishing and sublime vitality against all odds….and an artist who sometimes soars heavenward, resting on the clouds and instilling himself with the eternal wisdom of the gods and translating their poetry for earthly mortals, always believing that “in art as in life, everything is possible if there is Love”.

 

Exhibition 6 July – 19 November 2007

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Vevey

~ by Stampfli & Turci on August 24, 2007.