La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves

This sharply focused historical exhibition, 'Sophie Taeuber-Arp. La règle des courbes (The Rule of Curves)' is curated by Briony Fer and is the gallery's first solo display of Taeuber-Arp's work, featuring over 45 artworks that span a four-decade period from 1916 – 1942. Coming from the German Arp Foundation (Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie-Taeuber-Arp e.V.) and important private and public collections, the show includes paintings, drawings, gouaches, wooden reliefs and an iconic Dada head. The exhibition draws attention to the artist's formal vocabulary of the curve, which she used in innovative ways to stretch, bend and warp the language of geometric abstraction. Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important artists of the 20th-century avant-garde. Dismantling conventional oppositions between Dada and geometric abstraction, fine art and utilitarian objects, 'La règle des courbes' shows how Taeuber-Arp boldly engaged with the cultural context of international modernism.