Ivan Aguéli, born in 1869 in Salah, a small mining town located in a mountainous region in the heart of Sweden, and who died in 1917 in Barcelona, believed that art could be a portal to a higher truth. His life was a constant quest, shaped by various spiritual, political and aesthetic doctrines. A journey that led him to places as distant as Paris and Cairo. From the Lutheran Protestantism of his childhood to the mysticism of Swedenborg, then from anarchism to the esoteric Islam of the Sufi tradition.
Pascal Rousseau joins Viveca Wessel to talk about the life and work of the artist.
Pascal Rousseau is a professor of contemporary art history at Paris 1 Université Panthéon-Sorbonne and a specialist in the historical avant-garde, early abstract art, and the links between imagination, science and technology in contemporary culture. Among the notable exhibitions he has curated are: « Cosa mentale.