In 1911, while he was living in Germany, Wassily Kandinsky founded a radical artists association called The Blue Rider. His treatise, “On the Spiritual in Art,” posited that art should not try to mimic its surroundings, but should instead reflect the inner workings of the soul. In 1914, war interrupted his plans. He returned to Russia and stayed there until 1921. In the interwar years, Kandinsky came back to Europe to teach at the Bauhaus, where he remained until its dissolution, in 1933. He settled in Paris, his final chapter, and died in 1944. Kandinsky’s embrace of abstraction never left him. This large-scale exhibition sees works from the Guggenheim’s holdings, in New York, traveling way Down Under. —Elena Clavarino