Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in Switzerland
Visual Encounters

For the first time, a Fondation Beyeler exhibition centers around art works from Africa and Oceania. Each of the thirteen exhibition spaces focuses on an African or Oceanian cultural region, emphasizing its unique character. These extra- European works of the highest quality and global significance are juxtaposed with masterpieces of classical modernism from the Beyeler collection.


Works

African Masks
Vincent van Gogh, Champ aux meules de blé
Figures of the Senufo
Paul Cézanne, Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune
Nkisi (Nail Figures) from the Congo
Georges Braque, Femme lisant
Works from Polynesia
Paul Klee, Wald-Hexen
Tino aitu Figures from Nukuoro Atoll
Henri Rousseau, Le lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l’antilope
Hunting Helpers and Ancestor Figures from the Upper Korewori River
Henri Matisse, Nu bleu, la grenouille
Malagan Carvings from North New Ireland
Uli Figures from Central New Ireland
Fernand Léger, Les perroquets (Les acrobates)
A Feather Image from Hawai'i
Mark Rothko, No. 64 (Untitled)
Sculptures of the Mundugumor from the Yuat River
Pablo Picasso, Figure (Femme assise)