Jawlensky fills the Russian Museum with colour

He was a friend of Kandinsky and a member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an artistic movement that transformed German expressionism. They once shared exhibitions and artistic interests and are now doing it again in Malaga. Alexéi Jawlensky will be filling the space vacated by his friend in Malaga's Russian Museum from now until February next year.

The exhibition sets out to explore his role at the vanguard of the twentieth century, in the words of José María Luna, director of the Malaga branch of St Petersburgs State Russian Museum.

Respected by the experts but unknown to the public at large, the citys Tabacalera building makes clear the importance of this expressionist painters work and discusses it in the context of his contemporaries and his successor, his son Andreas.

The search for a personal journey through the use of colour and light unites father and son. The result is an explosion of tones in the exhibition galleries, a kaleidoscopic palette for people to compare and contrast their form, style and subject. With The Adventure of Colour, the shows subtitle, Alexéi and Andreas meet again in Malaga, almost a hundred years after they first exhibited together in 1914.

The exhibition looks at the artists creativity through around fifty of his and his sons works, (from the St Petersburg museum, private collections and the artists descendants), as well as 20 contextual works by other artists.