Dina Vierny gallery is pleased to present its exhibition "The paths of Abstraction: from Kandinsky to Reigl". This exhibition highlights the richness and diversity of the worlds opened up by abstraction in the 20th century, with works by Bergman, Charchoune, Degottex, Gilioli, Hantaï, Kandinsky, Léger, Poliakoff, Pougny and Reigl.

The exhibition will open with a discreet, angled poster, written in Cyrillic, with an easily decipherable title: "0.10". This is a rare copy of the poster for the Petersburg exhibition that changed the course of art history: Malevich unveiled his Suprematist works for the first time, and Tatlin his counter-reliefs. This was the beginning of one of the three great founding moments of abstraction, embodied by Malevich, Kandinsky and Mondrian, according to the theory of art historian Dora Vallier.

This first wave of abstraction will be represented in the exhibition by two artists who laid down some of the founding markers of this pictorial adventure: Ivan Pougny, who took part in the "0.10" exhibition (and is credited with designing the poster), and Vassily Kandinsky. The former with a Suprematist composition from 1916, the latter with an oil from 1928 and an ink from 1930.

The second wave of abstraction presented in this exhibition - and which marked the history of the galerie en pointillé - is that of the Second School of Paris. Poliakoff, Gilioli and Doucet were regulars on the Rue Jacob walls: the first held his first major exhibition there in 1951, the second in 1962 and the third in 1960 (the gallery has represented Doucet's estate since 2019). As for Hantaï, Reigl, Degottex and Bergman, whose works have only recently come into harmony with the walls of Auguste Perret, they invite the viewer to explore different horizons: from sensitive minimalism to spiritual formalism, via a gestural approach to primordial meaning.

Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, directors of the gallery, explain their intention behind this exhibition: “At a time when the great modernist narratives of art history are being revisited, Dina Vierny gallery proposes to explore the great diversity of abstraction's plastic experimentations and to put them in dialogue, so that the expression of some can shed light on that of others. It is not the particularism of each major movement, into which these artists have sometimes been too confined, that the exhibition wishes to highlight, but rather one of the common quests that all have shared: that of the absolute.”