It鈥檚 not about facts, it鈥檚 about feelings. I think the highest form of art is music. It鈥檚 the most abstract of all art expression.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin often talked about her interest in music and in the emotions that she felt when listening to it. Join us for a classical music concert performed by the Ensemble Kandinsky, Switzerland. Uniquely set in the Agnes Martin exhibition, surrounded by the artist鈥檚 late paintings, the programme includes specially selected music by John Cage, Arvo P盲rt, Johann Sebastian Bach, T艒ru Takemitsu, John Adams and Augusta Read Thomas.
For Agnes Martin, music was the art form that most closely resembled the ideal of unconditional abstraction, inviting a multiplicity of responses and emotions. This programme includes works by Martin鈥檚 musical contemporaries as well as compositions from earlier centuries, inviting you to explore the connections between visual, musical and emotional abstraction.聽
The musical compositions in the programme are introduced by Gottfried Schatz.