NEW YORK - Cézanne experimenting, repeating the same motif or theme in the search for perfection, who dares even without necessarily reaching his goal.
It is a Cézanne beyond the canvas that is presented from 6 June to 25 September 2021 at the MoMA in New York in 'Cézanne Drawing' (the drawing of Cézanne), an exhibition that is a unique opportunity to see more than 250 drawings at the same time. Worldwide.
They are works on paper, drawings or sketches of an album but also some rarely seen watercolors, which show how the French genius mainly recognized as a painter produced his most radical works on paper.
"What we have learned by looking at Cézanne's works on paper - said to ANSA - Samantha Friedman, one of the curators - is that the relationship between them and the paintings is not so simple as it is not always a preparatory study that leads to a finished project. The artist pursues the same theme or themes over and over in what is like a chain of images and that effort during the process is like a work for its own sake. Exploration is the end. " Drawing was central to Cézanne's practice from the late 1850s until his death in 1906. Using loose sheets and sketchbook pages he produced over 2,100 works on paper throughout his career. For him, drawing was an activity of interest and importance in itself, and his works on paper,developed over the course of days, weeks and even years have been fundamental in the development of a modern artistic idiom.
"This exhibition - the curator Jodi Hauptman pointed out to ANSA - is an opportunity that happens once in a generation to see works that come from all over the world. Furthermore, since they are drawings and therefore extremely delicate, they are often kept in private collections and places of study. They are therefore not very accessible to the public. Cézanne painter is known to all, we want to show an artist who was more experimental and radical on paper ". Kiko Aebi, of the Department of Drawings and Prints, Laura Neufeld and David Booth of the Department of Conservation also collaborated on Cézanne Drawing.
