Mathieu Mercier Curates Bauhaus-Inspired Group Show at Galerie Le Minotaure

Mathieu Mercier has organized a group exhibition at Galerie Le Minotaure in Paris that revisits the founding principles of the Bauhaus. The show spans the gallery's two spaces on rue de Seine and rue des Beaux-Arts, featuring works by about fifty artists, from Elsa Werth's black-and-white dice trio to Jean Arp's collage, Luigi Veronesi's aniline-painted film, Cécile Bart's delicate compositions, Nicolas Boulard's large cork diptych, David Malek's yellow disc facing two blue monochromes by Claude Closky. The exhibition is anchored by a Kandinsky ink-and-watercolor composition on paper from the Dina Vierny collection, dating from the period when the artist formalized his theories in the 1926 Bauhaus treatise "Point and Line to Plane." This work is the only one not for sale but connects the show to the centenary of the essay. The hang was conceived on-site without a preliminary model over four or five days, with Mercier's intuition to occupy floor and ceiling from the entrance—Carl André's steel slabs respond to Michel Verjux's light projection. Benoît Sapiro notes the hang is "like sheet music." Prices range from 100 euros for a Bombyx Mama scarf to 300,000 euros for a László Moholy-Nagy collage. The project was postponed twice and coincides with the centenary of Kandinsky's essay.