PAST EXHIBITION
Auguste Herbin: A Retrospective and A Homage to Herbin
November 19, 2007—December 30, 2007
The MADI Museum and Gallery announces Auguste Herbin: A Retrospective
and A Homage to Herbin: A Selection of Contemporary Geometric
Artists. Opening Friday, November 19 the collection will be comprised
of a 20-piece retrospective of Auguste Herbin and 26 works by six other
geometric artists. Herbin was born in northeastern France in 1882 and
exhibited with the Cubists such as Picasso and Braque. Feeling Cubism
had too many limitations, he broke away to pursue pure abstractions by
applying his interests in geometry, color and the dynamics of rhythmic
form. Herbin became the leading French abstract, geometric artist and
an inspirational figure to abstract artists in both Europe and the
Americas, including the MADI Movement. Along with Vasily Kandinsky,
Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Joseph Albers, Piet Mondrian and Victor
Vasarely, his influence advanced geometric abstraction, hard-edge
abstraction and Op Art way past his death in 1960. This event is
funded in part by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
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