Exhibition 11 November, 2020 - 1 March, 2021 Sabatini Building, Floor 1 Mondrian and

Piet Mondrian, Rhytmus, 1937/1942. Oil on canvas, 72.2 x 69.5 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

Exhibition organised by Museo Reina Sofía and Stichting Kunstmuseum Den Haag In collaboration with: Mondrian and De Stijl Organised by Museo Reina Sofía and Stichting Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and curated by Hans Janssen, this constitutes the first major exhibition on this artist’s work to be held in Spain since 1982.

The show brings together around 100 works by Mondrian and some of his fellow De Stijl artists, such as , Hendrik Berlage, Jacoba van Heemskerck, , Karel de Bazel, Michel de Klerk, Vilmos Huszár, J.C.M. Lauweriks, Georges Vantongerloo and Bart van der Leck, among others. The exhibition comprises , drawings, sculptures, plans, furnishings, documents, and life-sized reconstructions of two rooms designed by these artists.

Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Eight Lines and Red (Picture no. III), 1938. Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 100.5 cm Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust Bart van der Leck, Composition 1917, no. 2 (dog cart), 1917. Oil on canvas, 45 x 63 cm Collection: Matthijs Erdman. Transferred to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag as a long term loan © Bar van der Leck. VEGAP, 2020 At the beginning of the last century, during the First World War, the (which remained neutral during the conflict) was the cradle of a completely new art style. An art that embraced an abstract aesthetic strictly centred on the relations between rectangular forms, primary colours, and straight lines. This new, innovative art, which emerged when a group of young artists created a magazine called De Stijl (used as a means of promotion), proved well able to break down the traditional barriers between disciplines. Thus, became architecture, applied arts turned into sculpture and design achieved the status of art.

Piet Mondrian (Amersfoort, 1872 - New York, 1944) was the founding father of this new artistic movement and in 1918 his experiments led him to conclude that painting could break free from its frame, and even determine the environment in which it is presented. The visual arts of the twentieth century were thus redefined as a new geometric abstract art form that captivated the world. This exhibition aims to provide an overview of the development of Mondrian’s oeuvre within the broader context of the dialogue and disputes of De Stijl, the art movement that shaped modernity. The Museum

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