In the project space of Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, two pioneers enter an imagined dialogue: Wassily Kandinsky, founding figure of abstract painting, and Jules Schmalzigaug, the Belgian futurist who composed with colour as if it were music.

Both artists searched for a visual language that could transcend the visible world. For Kandinsky, colour became tone, line became rhythm, and composition a score of inner vibrations. His abstract forms breathe the intensity of musical chords, where shape and sound merge.

Schmalzigaug painted in swift, luminous arabesques. His futurist canvases shimmer with motion, as if written for an orchestra of pigments. Painting, for him, was the pursuit of pure colour-music: a visual tempo, a chromatic pulse.

This presentation brings their shared intuition into focus — that seeing and hearing are never fully separate. The works reveal how colour gains a voice, how abstraction carries melody, and how two artists — who never met — still resonate in a mutual exploration of synesthetic possibility.

Artists: Wassily Kandinsky, Jules Schmalzigaug