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Curator’s choice: Sonia Delaunay’s remarkable rhythm
The multidisciplinary abstractionist blazed a trail, as BASTIAN’s new exhibition shows.
André Villers, Portrait of Sonia Delaunay , c.1975, image courtesy of Luke Walker
Sonia Delaunay was a masterful artist, whose creativity knew no bounds.
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She designed interiors and fabrics, costumes and theatrical sets, all the while building a new visual language (along with her husband, Robert) that interrogated the perception and experience of colour, prioritising shape, rhythm and movement over literal representation.
As a new exhibition of her Rythmes-Couleurs (Rhythm Colours) series opens at BASTIAN in London, we ask curator Aeneas Bastian to tell us about some of the most important works on display.
Projet de Couverture d’Album No.1, 1916
Projet de Couverture d’Album No.1 fizzes with a freshness and dynamic energy that is the absolute hallmark of the Delaunay style – s
