Overview
- The Philharmonie de Paris, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, is presenting a Kandinsky exhibition at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
- Pierre-Henri Gibert’s 54-minute documentary “Kandinsky: Voir la musique, réinventer la peinture” is streaming on Arte.tv to accompany the exhibition.
- Critics highlight the film’s pedagogical tone, abundant archival footage, unhurried shots of works, and insights from historians and musicians.
- The documentary revisits Kandinsky’s reported synesthetic response to Wagner’s Lohengrin in Moscow and his formative encounter with Monet’s Haystacks.
- It underscores his exchange with Arnold Schönberg in Munich as a catalyst for linking musical structure to pictorial composition.