Sophie Taeuber-Arp survey reveals the dizzying range of work by the Swiss artist
Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Composition à cercles et demi-cercles (1938) Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck When Sophie Taeuber took to a Zurich stage in 1917 (long before marrying Jean Arp and, as per Swiss custom, tacking his name onto the end of hers), the Cabaret Voltaire and Dada founder Hugo Ball sat in the audience and watched her dance. He saw a goldfish, darkness, questions, a child, an angel, invention, caprice, wit. “Sophie Taeuber,” he later wrote, “is completely different”. The major survey Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstractions, which opens this week a...
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