"Sensations"

The year’s first collection display invites viewers on a journey along numerous highlights of the museum’s collection – as well as offering a reflection on the notion of sensation. Paul Cezanne, to whom the Fondation Beyeler is concurrently devoting a major exhibition, provides the starting point for the collection display: in his letters, the artist repeatedly writes of “sensations colorantes” (“colour sensations”) as a key foundation of his art. He understood his pictorial practice as a direct translation onto canvas of his own chromatic visual impressions (“sensations”).