Paul Klee's lifelong dialogue with nature explored at Zentrum Paul Klee

The Zentrum Paul Klee in Berna presents 'Everything Grows', a comprehensive exhibition curated by Fabienne Eggelhöfer that traces Paul Klee's lifelong engagement with nature as a generative force. Spanning from his childhood drawings to his final works in 1940, the show includes studies, paintings, objects from his studio, and natural history books from his collection. Klee's famous dictum 'Not to render the visible, but to make visible' is exemplified through works like 'Garden Scene' (1905) on glass, which marked a stylistic breakthrough, and late pieces such as 'Fruits in Blue Field' (1938), 'Gorge in the Alps' (1938), 'Labyrinthine Park' (1939), and 'Luxuriant Fruit' (1939). The exhibition highlights how Klee's early naturalistic drawings evolved into a free play of forms and chromatic harmonies, culminating in 'Giant Plants' (1940), a synthesis of botanical, anatomical, and architectural elements. Klee believed the artist should give 'duration to genesis' and that creation is never complete, viewing the visible world as too confined.