Abstractions: Musée Tavet-Delacour
Belgium, due to its central position in Europe, has always been a place of exchange where the most innovative ideas in the field of aesthetics found an enthusiastic reception, often even before these avant-garde movements were recognized in their own country.
The exhibition explored abstraction in its broadest sense—both geometric and informal—across the decades following the Second World War. It was enriched by works that created dialogues with pieces from the collections of the Musée de Pontoise, as well as selected works from the Verbaet Collection reflecting key moments of the avant-garde.
While artists such as Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Henri-Jean Closon, Pierre-Louis Flouquet, Henri Michaux, Victor Servranckx, Michel Seuphor, and Raoul Ubac were already well known in France, many leading figures of the Belgian avant-garde—from the early twentieth century and the generations that followed—remained less familiar to the French public.
The exhibition offered a unique opportunity to rediscover these artists and to encounter a rich and diverse landscape of Belgian abstract art.
This exhibition was organized by the City of Pontoise in collaboration with the mvAc Center, Antwerp – the Maurice Verbaet Collection, and was supported by the Departmental Council of Val d’Oise.
