Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst

Cobra Museum of Modern Art
Amstelveen
24 October 2009 to 17 January 2010 

This fall the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen honours the free art of the 1950s in the exhibition Paris Central.

Parijs Centre of European Art

In the 1940s and 1950s, Paris was the centre of European art. Famous artists, such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, Georges Mathieu, Arnulf Rainer, Nicolas de Staël, Antoni Tàpies and Bram van Velde all chose to live in this vivacious and inspiring city. In this exhibition, an ode to lyrical abstraction, action painting, l’art informel and material painting, masterpieces have been brought together from the oeuvres of over 30 European masters. An exhibition of this nature is long overdue, as it investigates a period that generated so much interesting and beautiful art - by artists who intensively and diligently experimented in the age of the reconstruction. They were not only French and Dutch artists, but also German, Italian and Spanish, Danish and Belgian, for they were all working in Paris.

Read more about Paris Central on the website of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen