More than airplanes take flight at Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Since 2013, masterpieces from major French museums have stopped over at CDG.
Following Rodin, Dubuffet and Picasso, our Espace Musées is now exhibiting works from the Centre Pompidou. After WWII, the heirs of geometric abstraction restored their faith in the future by starting over. Expressing themselves with lively colors, instinctive lines and unprecedented pictorial adventures, they asserted a new generation’s longing for freedom in a movement called Gestural Abstraction.
In a challenge to academic art, their compositions became increasingly complex and unpredictable, integrating drips, graffiti and symbols to highlight awareness of the materiality of the creative act. Showcasing this fertile era, the Espace Musées presents 21 works including paintings by Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff and Jean Dewasne, mobiles by Alexander Calder and sculptures by Jean Arp that offer travelers a cultural break on their journey via CDG.
Download press release (in french) "L'art abstrait des années 1950"