Forms that Fly. International Artists in the French Collections

The exhibition Forms that Fly, International Artists in the French Collections, while including well-established names, takes a particular interest in the work of lesser-known authors – embodied today in the French collection of MoCA-Skopje. As such, the exhibition is a true snapshot of a generation captured with all its doubts and hopes. The creativity to which we are paying tribute today is the fruit of the artistic exchanges of a generation in search of a common language. All languages were mixed together turning Paris into a modern Babel whose common language was art. In this way, the exhibition reconstitutes a “fictitious community” allowing us to blur the lines and imagine artistic encounters in studios, private academies, the Paris School of Fine Arts, and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, among others. Above all, this exhibition celebrates these shared pathways and displacements. 

To pay tribute to the artists represented in the Skopje collection, the exhibition also features a selection of works from the collection of the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon. Based on key themes based around the artists' displacement, travel and the donated works, the selection of works from macLYON likewise encourages an intergenerational and institutional dialogue between the two museums.