Piet Mondrian. Dalla figurazione all'astrazione

For the first time in Milan, MUDEC hosts until 27 March 2022 an exhibition project entirely dedicated to the artistic evolutionary process that led Mondrian from the tradition of the Dutch landscape to the development of his unique style, which made him unmistakable and universally famous.

The exhibition, produced by 24 ORE Cultura - 24 ORE Group, promoted by the Municipality of Milano-Cultura and with the patronage of the Netherlands Consulate in Milan, was created thanks to the collaboration of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, holder of the most important collection of works Mondrian to the world, and who has lent sixty works, chosen from those by Mondrian, artists from the Hague School and designers De Stijl.

Also on display are two works by Mondrian from the Museo del Novecento in Milan - an example of the few works by the artist in Italian collections - and a neoplastic painting from the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade. With the concept of the director of the Kunstmusem Benno Tempel and with the curatorship of Daniel Koep, Head of Exhibitions, and Doede Hardeman, Head of Collections,

the path comes to life and winds through thematic sections. A visual and therefore immediate key to the stylistic evolution of the artist, useful for understanding the same entirely abstract works of his last period. The common thread on which the comparison between the works of the early "figurative" period to those of the "abstract" period is expressed is that of the landscape, with comparisons between his works and those of the painters of the "Hague School", a group of artists working in the Dutch city between 1860 and 1890, largely influenced by the realism of the Barbizon school, and according to whose manner Mondrian had begun to paint.

A section of the exhibition is dedicated to "De Stijl" (The Style), a movement born in the Netherlands in 1917 on the initiative of Mondrian himself and Theo van Doesburg and still active in the thirties, which innovated art, architecture and design. with works - among others - by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld.