Across the rainbow. Basel delights visitors to the Eurovision Song Contest / Day
Many cultural institutions in Basel have prepared a program adapted to Eurovision. A special exhibition from May 9 to 18 will be waiting for viewers at the Museum of Contemporary Art FONDATION BEYELERWho will offer a discount on entrance tickets during this period – visit the museum will be able to pay twenty Swiss franc. For those under the age of 25, the entrance is always free.
During the Eurovision Song Contest, the museum will be on view specifically for this event FONDATION BEYELER exhibition Across the rainbow/Over the Rainbow. The name is borrowed from the song sounding in the musical film Oza land magician (1939). The exhibition is a tribute to music, the splendor and diversity of Eurovision in all manifestations.
To the museum FONDATION BEYELER The roof is installed by the spectacular sculpture of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone in rainbow colors We are poems (2011). Rainbow sculptures are one of the best known works of Ugo Rondinone. He began creating them in the late 1990s to work in a public space with a symbol that is understandable worldwide.
Rainbow, a phenomenon of natural and rainfall, is the main theme of the exhibition that combines the concepts of light, water and color force. Ogist Rodens had once chosen the Rainbow goddess Iris to appoint his revolutionary figure in their modern art. Taking this figure on the exposure reference point, FONDATION BEYELER Has provided a thematic selection of his collections. It highlights the masterpieces of modern and contemporary art created by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Sean, Henri Ruso, Vasily Kandinsky, Pete Mondrian, Max Ernst, Alberto Jacomet, Mark Rothko, Francis. Elizabeth Peithon and Wolfgang Tillmans.
In parallel to the museum there is an exhibition Northern lights/Northern Lightswho invites you to get to know the northern landscapes and the light characteristic of the region. The exhibition features seventy -four paintings from the Nordic and Canadian artists from 1888 to 1937. These include the masterpieces of Hilma AF Klint and Edward Munka. The artists represented in this exhibition have been inspired by the Northern Primary coniferous forests. The painters have captured seemingly endless forests, summer day light, long winter nights and various natural phenomena. They have created a Nordic form of modern painting that still arouses interest and fascinates viewers.
Museum FONDATION BEYELER Recalls that the Nordic countries have often won the Eurovision competition: the Swedish Quartet Abba hits Waterloo (1974), Finnish rock band Lordi with Hard Rock Hallelujah (2006), Norwegian singer Alexander Ribak with Fairytale (2009) and others.
Edward Munks. Train smoke. Canvas, oil. 84.5 x 109 cm. 1900 Work from the Oslo Munka Museum Collection. Photo – Halvor Bjerngors
Exhibition Northern lights The base will be open until May 25th. The next ambitious project FONDATION BEYELER The premises will have a retrospective of Latvian and American artist Vija Celmiņa, which will be opened on June 15 and will be on view until September 21.
Information: fondationbeyeler.chTo, in the way, EUROVISION.TV
