Klee/Aguéli

In 1914, Paul Klee went to Tunisia, where he discovered that he was a painter. The same year, Ivan Aguéli embarked on his third and final sojourn in Egypt, the country that shaped his ideas about life and art. This anecdotal coincidence is the starting point for this exhibition about the two artists and their respective approach to the foundations of visual arts: the artist’s mission, the choice of subject matter, the act of creating, and the physical and metaphysical qualities of the image.