"Klee Meets Picasso" Exhibition at The Zentrum Paul Klee

Written by Paul Rolfe Glaser Sunday, 06 June 2010 22:13

BERN.- Two masters, four themes, eight pictures. Poetry here, drama there. Irony here, sensuality there. Romanticism here, spirituality there. Paul here, Pablo there. The interactive exhibition «Paul und Pablo» by the children’s museum Creaviva invites guests to take part in a journey of creative dialogue beginning on the 6 June and on view through 26 September, 2010.

The exhibition «Klee meets Picasso» at the Zentrum Paul Klee highlights the differences and similarities between two of the most renowned painters of the 20th Century in a unique confrontation of themes and techniques. Simultaneously, the children’s museum Creaviva is using this encounter as a platform for playful interaction with Paul and Pablo in the generous Loft where everyone is invited to participate and assimilate creative dialogue with modern art.

Whilst still alive, Klee and Picasso met on only two occasions ‐ the first on 26 October 1933 in Paris and the second on 27 November 1937 in Bern when Picasso visited Klee in his modest attic studio. The unique artistic encounter in which Paul and Pablo meet once again, not personally, but through their outstanding works of art, leaves the creative dialogue to be constructed by the public.

In partnership with the School of Design Bern and Biel, under the direction of Stefan Gelzer, a class of 17 upcoming display artists developed various concepts for interactive installations to build a bridge to modern art for a multigenerational public in a uniquely playful way. Amongst creative stations for big eyes and small hands, the interactive exhibition also offers soul food for curious minds. With the help of an accompanying brochure, interested guests are offered the opportunity to dive deeper into diverse aspects of the artistic confrontation between Paul and Pablo on the quest to learn more about the artists widely regarded as the two great opposites of modern art.

The Zentrum Paul Klee

On June 20th 2005 the Zentrum Paul Klee opened its doors to visitors interested in art and to art lovers from all over the world. At the heart of this new cultural institution is the artist Paul Klee (1879–1940), his life and his work. Today Paul Klee, who was also a musician, teacher and poet, ranks as one of the 20th century’s most significant artists. The Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, where the artist spent a half of his life, is a monument of international renown and a personal tribute to Paul Klee himself.

Of the 10,000 or so works that make up Paul Klee’s oeuvre a good 40 per cent, that is to say around 4,000 paintings, watercolours and drawings as well as archives and biographical material, has been brought together at the Zentrum Paul Klee. The Centre’s collections are considered as the largest collection of a single artist of world renown. Visit : http://www.zpk.org/ww/en/pub/web_root.cfm

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