Windows on the city: The School of Paris, 1900-1945_GMB

APRIL 1, 2016   The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900–1945 Dates: April 22 through October 23, 2016 The first exhibition of works from the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York since the renewal of the management agreement between the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in December 2014 Curated by Lauren Hinkson, Assistant Curator for Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York WINDOWS ON THE CITY: THE SCHOOL OF PARIS, 1900-1945 From April 22 to October 23, 2016, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900–1945, an exhibition of more than 50 masterpieces from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. This exhibition is the first since the renewal of the management agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation, signed in December 2014 and valid for 20 years. The agreement provides for a range of new initiatives that will broaden the partnership and emphasizes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's commitment to present an exhibition of key, iconic works from its collection every two years at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.  Windows on the City: The School of Paris, 1900–1945 includes some of the most influential paintings and sculptures of the last century, created by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In the early twentieth century, Paris was the capital of the avant-garde. Artists from around the world settled in the City of Light, where they created new forms of art and literature and responded to the rapid economic, social, and technological developments that were fundamentally transforming city life. It was in Paris that Picasso and Braque radically overturned the conventions of painting, Delaunay composed harmonious visions of color, Kandinsky pursued new directions in abstraction, and Brancusi reimagined how sculptures could be present in space. The title of the exhibition, which refers to a series by Delaunay, illustrates how the modern city became a backdrop and an inspiration for artistic production.

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