Kandinsky's works on display in Brazil until September 2015
The exhibition called “Kandinsky: Tudo Começa num Ponto” (“Kandinsky: Everything Starts with a Point”) provides insight into the creative world of one of the most influential 20th-century painters, known as the founder of abstractionism. 
Art enthusiasts in Brazil will have an opportunity to take a tour of the works of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, and learn about the roots of his ideas, his main influences, and his links with spirituality and popular culture. A new exhibition called “Kandinsky: Tudo Começa num Ponto” (“Kandinsky: Everything Starts with a Point”) provides insight into the creative world of one of the most influential 20th-century painters, known as the founder of abstractionism.
The exhibition opened last week in Brasília and runs until January. It will then move on to Rio de Janeiro; Belo Horizonte and São Paulo. Admission is free.
The exhibits come mainly from the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
This is the first time an exhibition like this has been staged outside Europe. There are over 150 items on display including paintings from throughout his career, along with religious symbols, clothing items and objects used in shaman rituals – a recurring theme in Kandinsky's work – illustrations, pottery, woodcuts, lithographs, and works by fellow and influencing artists.
“This exhibition is a collection of works never seen anywhere else in the world. It consists of very rare works, mostly from the early abstract period in the mid-1920's. This is unprecedented for a collection of this magnitude,” Rodolfo de Hatayde, coordinator of the exhibition, told Agência Brasil.
The exhibits come mainly from the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, as well as paintings from seven other museums in Russia and collections from Germany, Austria, England, and France. The exhibition is organized into five sections outlining the painter's artistic career.
The exhibition includes an interactive area inviting visitors to experience one of the artist's paintings. His story is told in a video especially made for the exhibition.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky would structure his paintings based on a notion that colors and gestures convey an inherent message.
“Kandinsky was one of the first artists to come up with a theory on colors and composition as a squint concept. He paved the way for a new notion of paintings as more than a mere representation of reality and art as an expression of feelings, squint ideas, and doing so in such a beautiful way as he did in his works,” Hatayde explained.
Translated by Mayra Borges
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