classic meets art
classic meets art
Amelia Maszonska-Escobar Violine
Philipp Wollheim Violine
Sarina Zickgraf Viola
Sasha Neustroev Violoncello
Leonie von Bismarck Einführung
Ulrike Thiele Einführung
The November edition of our "classic meets art" series will take place in the exhibition "Mary Heilmann. Works on Paper" at Hauser & Wirth Zurich on Limmatstrasse.
The exhibition shows the same sensibility as her seminal abstract paintings - a nonchalant playfulness that animates the strict concentration on form and colour and creates joyfully moving geometries. Their suggestive power is the result of a process that the artist describes as "daydreaming": a conjuring up of the sights, sounds and events of her past or imagined future travels and a cyclical remembering that allows Heilmann to return again and again to various motifs from her almost fifty years of creative work.
Mary Heilmann grew up in San Francisco and Los Angeles and completed a degree in literature before studying ceramics at Berkeley. Influenced by the counter-movement of the 1960s, the "Free Speech Movement" and the surf ethic of her Californian homeland, Mary Heilmann became one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation.
Igor Stravinsky, who stirred up Europe and above all Paris in the 1910s with his stirring musical language, went into exile in California in 1939 and also left his mark on contemporary events there. The contemporary American composer Caroline Shaw builds bridges to the past with her music and at the same time establishes her very own musical language. And just as Mary Heilmann has created several works in homage to earlier artists such as Piet Mondrian, Creative Chair Thomas Adès also reflects on role models in his music - with quotations or structural echoes. We encounter Mozart, for example, who plays himself at the end. Variations were also a major theme for him - and remain so for Mary Heilmann.
Short introductions to the exhibition and the musical programme link the stations where works of art and music enter into dialogue.
We round off the evening at the bar and in the exhibition.
Address: Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zurich
Doors open: 6.30 pm
Start of concert: 7.00 pm
Concert duration: 50 minutes
A drink is included in the ticket price.
Seating is available.