With this exhibition, Mary Heilmann returns to Zurich and shows more than 30 drawings created between 1975 and 2005. Growing up in San Francisco and Los Angeles, she was influenced by the counter-movement of the 1960s, the "Free Speech Movement" and the surf ethic of her Californian homeland. Today, she is one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation.
Musically, we first approach Mary Heilmann via California: Igor Stravinsky had gone into exile there in 1939 after stirring up Europe, and Paris in particular, with his stirring musical language in the 1910s. With works by the contemporary American composer Caroline Shaw and our Creative Chair Thomas Adès, we are building a bridge to the past - namely to Wolfgang A. Mozart. The nonchalant joy of playing and joyfully moving geometries of Mary Heilmann can also be traced in the music.
Short introductions to the exhibition and the musical programme connect the stations where works of art and music enter into dialogue.
We will round off the evening at the bar and in the exhibition.
