Art Fondation Pierre Gianadda VS dedicates exhibition to Francis Bacon
The Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny VS is dedicating its new exhibition to the British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992). The exhibition runs until June 8.
01.03.2025, 09:10
01.03.2025, 09:11
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In collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London, it features both paintings and photographs by the important 20th century artist. The exhibition, entitled "Francis Bacon - Présence humaine", offers "an immersive course through his convulsive and tormented world" with around 30 works and photographic portraits, as the foundation describes in its press documents.
The exhibition is divided into five sections and leads chronologically and thematically through the painter's preferred themes: the deconstruction of the portrait, the dialog with the old masters, the self-portrait as introspection, the portraits of friends and lovers as well as fragments of his turbulent life.
With its bold staging of paintings and photographs, the exhibition goes beyond a simple retrospective and becomes an existential exploration, according to the foundation. It allows visitors to immerse themselves in the obsessions and paradoxes of a painter who revealed humanity in its brutal reality. Bacon not only painted bodies, but also captured "the living flesh of the soul".
Bacon's work fascinates and disturbs because it illuminates a raw and confusing reality: "His art, which transcends epochs and conventions, pulls us out of our comfort zone to immerse us in a frontal and chaotic contemplation of humanity", the Fondation Gianadda continues.
