Visual Encounters

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Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916-1919, Fondation Beyeler/Riehen, and a crocodile sculpture of the Korewori River, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Paola Beltrame

Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, 1913, Fondation Beyeler/Riehen, and Tino Aitu figure, Nukuoro Atoll, Micronesia. Photo: Paola Beltrame

Crocodile Mask with Surmounted Face, Mabuiag Island, western Torres Strait, before 1871, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva. Photo: Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini

Two female figures from the Sikasso region and two from the Senufo region, Mali, 1820-1870 juxtaposed with Paul Cézanne's portrait Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, 1888-90, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois

Female Figure, by a Senufo master, Sikasso, Mali, c.1820-50, private collection. Photo: © Hughes Dubois

Two Flute Figures, Mundugumor, Papua New Guinea, 19th century, Museum der Kulturen, Basel. Pablo Picasso, Figure (Femme assise), 1930, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois, Brussels/Paris © 2008, ProLitteris, Zurich

Flute Figure, Mundugumor, Papua New Guinea, 19th century, Museum der Kulturen, Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois, Brussels/Paris

Five Figures by masters of the Mumuye region, Nigeria, 19th or first half of 20th century, various collections. Fernand Léger, Contraste de formes, 1913, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois, ProLitteris, Zurich

Head and Chest of a Standing Figure, by a workshop master of Pantisawa, Mumuye, Nigeria, 19th or early 20th century, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois

Piet Mondrian, Image No III, 1938, and Two Malagan fishes, by the artist Matasor, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1928. Photo: Paola Beltrame

Feather Portrait of the wargod Kūkā'ilimoku, Hawaiian Islands, before 1779, Ethnological Collection of the University of Göttingen. Photo: Harry Haase

Fernand Léger, Les perroquets (les acrobates), 1933, Fondation Beyeler/Riehen, and an Uli figure from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Paola Beltrame

A Female and a Male Tino Aitu figure, Nukuoro Atoll, Micronesia, 19th century. Private collection and Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva et Henri Rousseau, Le lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l'antilope, 1898-1905, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: © Hughes Dubois

Henri Matisse, Nu Bleu I, 1952, and La Grenouille, 1953, Fondation Beyeler/Riehen, and a female Inyai figure, Korewori River, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Paola Beltrame

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Africa and Oceanic art meets modern masters.

The Beyeler Fondation near Basel is showing an unusual exhibition where tribal art meets the likes of Monet and Picasso. The idea is to show how these two very different art forms can combine to produce a “visual explosion”.