Basel, 27.01.-12.05.2008.




Jackson Pollock, circling like a dancer around a canvas spread out on the floor, dripping and throwing paint – this image of an “action painter” not only made Pollock the leading representative of one of the most influential avant-gardes of the twentieth century. It also became an unforgettable icon of modern art in general. The exhibition Action Painting is devoted to the phenomenon of abstract gestural painting, which emerged in Europe and the United States in the wake of the Second World War. Despite the differences between European L’art informel and American Abstract Expressionism, by hindsight the similarities appear greater. Artists on both sides of the Atlantic dared a revolutionary new beginning by transcending the traditional borderlines of art. By radically concentrating on the spontaneous gesture, they believed, the artist’s personality and state of mind would be directly expressed in the painted image.

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