Regards:
The painting of silence

Originally, the curved wall of the Fondation suisse’s salon was designed to prevent paintings from being hung, but this surface, which still had to be decorated, was covered with around fifty enlarged images from the archives of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. However, this materialistic approach caused controversy and was accused of corrupting the minds of the young students who regularly visited the pavilion. During the Second World War, the building was used by the German army, leading to the removal of the mural. It was not until 1948 that Le Corbusier was invited to create a new mural, named the painting of silence because of the silence that surrounded it and still surrounds it since its creation.

Gilles Targat, 2022 FLC-ADAGP