Visual Symphonies

Nahmad Projects is pleased to present 'Visual Symphonies', curated by internationally acclaimed musician and Grammy Award-winning artist Eve, who brings a performer’s finely tuned perspective to the exhibition. Music - intangible, deeply emotive, yet inherently structural - has long served as both inspiration and model for visual artists. From the Old Masters to the modern era, it has established itself as a universal language, conveyed through rhythm, harmony, tone and dissonance.

The exhibition explores the enduring relationship between two of the most powerful forms of expression: the visual and the auditory.

Focusing on the 20th century, Visual Symphonies brings together key works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Juan Gris, Raoul Dufy, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, and Georges Braque. Each piece reflects a distinct encounter between sound and image. Together the works create a free- flowing, polyphonic conversation, between the eye and the ear - surrounded by the very music that inspired these artists.

While music and visual art have long informed one another, the 20th century saw this relationship evolve, as both forms underwent simultaneous revolutions. Composers and artists began to break with tradition, embracing spontaneity and modernity. A new wave of classical music emerged alongside the rise of improvisational genres like jazz and blues. In parallel, advances in sound technology - radio, phonographs and recorded music - brought this evolving sonic world into artists’ studios, and into closer dialogue with visual art.