De Jonckheere gallery will participate in the 6th edition of the fair Art Genève with a selection of paintings by the most prestigious modern masters, among them Alexander Calder, Nicolas de Staël, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, René Magritte and Victor Vasarely.
 
Honoring Lucio Fontana

Three works by Lucio Fontana will be presented by De Jonckheere gallery. Within this emblematic selection, two monochrome lacerated canvases, one white and one yellow, play off each other. Created in 1968 by the artist the ‘Tagli’ (cuts), are characteristic of the sensuality and radicality of the work of Lucio Fontana.
 
Also exhibited will be a work with the ‘Buchi’ (holes) style part of the 'Concetto Spaziale' series. As the artist said in his ‘Manifesto Blanco’, “I do not want to create a painting, I want to open the space, create a new dimension for art, attach it to the cosmos, as it expands infinitely, beyond the flat surface of the image.”
 
Magritte: visible poetry

The works in the series ‘La vie secrète' and 'Shéhérazade’ ('The secret life' and ‘Shéhérazade') are representatives of the enigmatic universe of René Magritte. The first, a unique work in the repertoire of the painter, confronts the spectator with what the painter called ‘visible poetry’. In uniting the elements of the perceivable world, the composition of the painting evokes the permanent mystery of the world.
 
The second, ‘Shéhérazade’, is one of the fifteen gouaches on the same theme, with unusual and rare formats for the corpus of the Surrealist master.
 
The force of Abstraction

A work from the ‘Noir-Blanc’ period of Vasarely, a luminous composition by Nicolas de Staël, ‘Texturology' by Jean Dubuffet and the symbolic vision of Alexander Calder: the works presented by De Jonckheere show the Masters of Abstractions’ spatiality and sensitivity in full force.

De Jonckheere Gallery

Founded in 1976, De Jonckheere gallery is a reference point for 16th  and 17th  century Flemish painting.
Since 2012, the gallery has also accompanied its collectors along the path of Modern Art’s grand masters.

The gallery’s paintings, appreciated by the most discerning collectors and museums throughout the world, are regularly presented at the most prestigious fairs such as the Biennale des Antiquaires of Paris (since 1978) or the TEFAF Maastricht and New York.

De Jonckheere is base in the historical heart of Geneva. In keeping with its expansion, De Jonckheere gallery will open the doors of its new space in Monaco during Spring 2017, Avenue Princesse Grace.
The inaugural exhibition entitled ‘The Meeting of Masters’ will gather an ensemble of masterpieces of ancient and Modern masters.