Colloque : Geometry and Colour: Decoding the Arts of Islam in the West 1880–1945

Geometry and Colour: Decoding the Arts of Islam in the West1880–1945

Venues:
Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15, CH-8002 Zurich
Auditorium, Kunsthaus Zürich, Heimplatz 1, CH-8001 Zurich

Organizers:
Sandra Gianfreda Kunsthaus Zürich
Francine Giese Vitrocentre & Vitromusée, Romont
Ariane Varela Braga Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome
Axel Langer Museum Rietberg Zürich

Friday, 11 September 2020
Venue: Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15, CH-8002 Zurich

14.30 – 15.00
Welcome and Registration

15.00 – 15.10
Welcome Remarks Annette BhagwatiDirector Museum Rietberg, Zurich

15.10 – 15.30
Opening Remarks by organizers

Section I:
Islamic Prototypes and Theoretical ApproachesChair: Axel Langer Museum Rietberg, Zurich

15.30 – 16.00
Olga Bush Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Color and Geometry in the Alhambra and what got lost in the Alhambresque

16.00 – 16.30
Sarah Keller Vitrocentre & Vitromusée, Romont
Illuminating Colour: the Stained Glass Designs for the Moorish Kiosk and the Moroccan House

16.30 – 17.00
Ariane Varela Braga Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome
Through the Looking-glass of the East. Colour, Geometry and the Kaleidoscope

17.00 – 17.30
Nadhra Shahbaz Khan Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Traditional Geometrical Patterns, Their Methods of Construction and Persian/Punjabi Titles: The Unsung Legacy Lost During the Colonial Rule of the Punjab (1849–1947)

18.00 – 19.00
Keynote lecture Rémi Labrusse Université Paris Nanterre
Deconstructing Orientalism. Islamic Lessons in European Arts at the Turn of 20th Century

Saturday, 12 September 2020
Venue: Auditorium, Kunsthaus Zürich, Heimplatz 1, CH-8001 Zurich

9.00 – 9.15
Registration

9.15 – 9.30
Welcome Remarks Christoph Becker, Director Kunsthaus Zürich

Section II:
Towards a Renewal of Decorative Arts in the West Chair: Ariane Varela Braga Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome

9.30 – 10.00
Mireia Freixa University of Barcelona
The starting point of the Muslim influence in Gaudi’s ornamental ceramic

10.00 – 10.30
Francine Giese Vitrocentre & Vitromusée, Romont
Exotic Light. Western Fascination for Islamic Colored Glass Windows

10.30 – 11.00
Elke Katharina Wittich Hochschule Fresenius, Hamburg
Dittmar’s Turkish ornamental sideboard – a “furniture style comparison” around 1900—
11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

Chair: Francine Giese Vitrocentre & Vitromusée, Romont

11.30 – 12.00
Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Warsaw
La modernité “orientale”. Les arts décoratifs polonais face aux arts de l’Islam au début du XXe siècle —

12.00 – 12.30
Karin Adrian von Roques Bonn
The influence of Arts of Islam on modern design movements in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. Patterned and Plain Surfaces: A Historical Perspective of the Bauhaus Idea

12.30 – 14.00
Lunch break

Section III:
Islamic Arts and Early Modernism Chair: Sandra Gianfreda Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

14.00 – 14.30
Ieva Kalnača Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
An encounter with the architecture of the Islamic world: turning point in the transformation of the artistic expression. The case of the Latvian modernist Jāzeps Grosvalds

14.30 – 15.00
Emily Christensen Courtauld Institut of Art, London
Wassily Kandinsky at the exhibition Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst in Munich, 1910: a mod-ernist artist’s interpretation of Persian art

15.00 – 15.30
Romain Siegenfuhr Ministère de la Culture, Paris
“Le chant rythmique de l’esprit”. Kupka et les arts de l’Islam: une autre voie vers l’abstraction

15.30 – 15.45
Final remarks