The Whole Palette offers a representative survey of the current holdings in the collection, with twenty-four of a total of forty works going on show to the public for the first time in a Hilti Art Foundation exhibition.
The show features the finest works of painting, with famous pieces by Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Ferdinand Hodler, Piet Mondrian or Karl Schmidt-Rottluff along with superb new acquisitions of works by Edvard Munch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Max Ernst, Verena Loewensberg, Gerhard Richter or Callum Innes. New works of collage, sculpture, photography, drawings and prints, for example by Henri Matisse, Jean Tinguely, Frank Thiel or Carol Wyss, are also on show. Staged on three floors, The Whole Palette not only offers an astonishing variety of genres and styles, but also of subjects, materials and colours.
The representation of the human figure from the end of the 19th to the 20th century is exemplified by the exhibits on the basement floor. The focus here is on the question of how to translate physical and psychological human existence into an "image" in a world constantly transformed by science, industry, technology or even war. The first floor is dedicated to the wealth of constructive and concrete art in the 20th century, illustrating the development of European abstraction by example of such pioneers as Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber or Piet Mondrian. The overall impression of the third floor is defined by the mystery of the creation and appearance of artistic forms – a line, a contour, an outline or a three-dimensional body.
Curated by Uwe Wieczorek, former curator of the Hilti Art Foundation.
Max Beckmann, Stilleben mit Paletten, 1944, Hilti Art Foundation
