Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

When

November 8, 2024 - March 9, 2025    
All Day

Where

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10128

Event Type

When?

Closing March 9, 2025

Where?

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

About the exhibition

Featuring over 90 artworks in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition examines the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It explores the transnational movement’s developments in Paris, addressing the impact dance, music, and poetry had on the art, among other themes.

Orphism emerged in the early 1910s, when the innovations brought about by modern life were radically altering conceptions of time and space. Artists connected to Orphism engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions, investigating the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion. Selected works by artists including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and by the Synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, are on view.

This exhibition includes works by Alexander Archipenko and Ukrainian-born Sonya Delaunay.

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