DutchCulture | Buitengaats: Mondrian and Colour at Turner Contemporary (UK)

24 May - 21 September 2014
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) changed painting. The twentieth century Dutch artist moved from depicting reality to pioneer something completely new and controversial, abstraction.

His most famous works, the ‘grids’ use simple lines and the primary colours red, yellow and blue to create a ‘universal harmony’, separating colour and subject from reality, transforming the material world into something spiritual.

70 years after Mondrian’s death, get beneath the grid and trace Mondrian’s journey to abstraction through colour. Colour underpinned Mondrian’s work, from the early days painting landscapes in the Netherlands, to the later works where colour was separated from its function of creating shading or volume.

The exhibition Mondrian and Colour contains more than 50 works, many from the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, which holds the largest collection of Mondrian’s paintings, along with exhibits from museums and private collections in Europe and the USA. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. 

Turner Contemporary is working in partnership with Tate Liverpool, who is presenting the concurrent exhibition Mondrian and his Studios from 6 June until 5 October 2014. Mondrian and his Studios explores the artist's importance in the field of abstraction and his relationship with architecture and urbanism.

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