Do you know Moly-Sabata? Under this beautiful poetic name is hidden an elegant house on the banks of the Rhone in Sablons en Isère. It is in this place apart from time, with real charm, that Albert Gleizes, one of the great figures of the artistic avant-garde of the 20th century, friend of Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, founded his community of artists. As early as 1927, painters, musicians, writers, art critics, philosophers, weavers, potters responded to the invitation of the painter and theorist of cubism, creating a real artistic synergy. And among them, the emblematic figure of this place: Anne Dangar, Australian painter turned potter. The thought of Gleizes advocating a return to the land and crafts, as well as the cubist aesthetics of his work, bring together residents around a common community ideal: Moly-Sabata is a place of life that aims at self-sufficiency, a place of creation and education open on Sablons, its inhabitants and the territory. Moly-Sabata, now one of the oldest artist residences in France, still perpetuates these same values of encounter, exchange and artistic emulation.
The exhibition was created in partnership with the Albert Gleizes Foundation and the Moly-Sabata artists' residence. It immerses the visitor in the intimacy of the community through an itinerary enriched by nearly one hundred and seventy works and photographic documents from the Kandinsky Library in Paris as well as major French museums, including the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
History of a place, of a painter, of a community, the exhibition Living cubism in Moly-Sabata is an invitation to relive a unique and unknown artistic and human adventure and, fortunately, always alive!