Martin Disler at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
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The “high yellow note” that Vincent van Gogh and so many artists have sought explores the limits of expressiveness and attempts to go beyond them, formally and emotionally.
Lemon-yellow, fresh butter, ochre, chrome, dull yellow, purplish and even white or grey... Vincent van Gogh's yellow comes in countless shades! This is porticularly striking in the works he produced during the twenty-seven months he spent in the South of France. On 24 March 1889, in Arles, he wrote to his brother that he was once again trying to achieve the "high yellow note" he had discovered the previous summer. For him, it was much more than a colour: it was a creative highpoint - intensely challenging, both feared and desired -, a phenomenon of exaltation or mental empowerment.
Curators Bice Curiger and Margaux Bonopera.
A thematic exhibition featuring the work of 22 artists from different generations and backgrounds (artist biographies below):
Martin Disler, Vincent van Gogh, Albert Oehlen, Richard Artschwager, Paul Blanchet aka le Sauvage, Louise Bourgeois, Vittorio Brodmann, Claude Cahun, Nina Childress, Valie Export, Markus Gadient, Bruno Jakob, Asger Jorn, Martha Jungwirth, Karen Kilimnik, Verena Loewensberg, Thomias Radin, Pipilotti Rist, Klaudia Schifferle, Pierre Schwerzmann, Hyun-Sook Song, Dominique White.
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
35 ter, rue du Docteur-Fanton
13200 Arles
Opening Hours
Every day
10am—6pm