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Christo, Turner, Marcel Gromaire, Nan Goldin ... The 10 exhibitions not to be missed this summer

2020-07-18T07:09:31.907Z


In Paris, in the provinces, many museums have reopened. In most cases it is necessary to reserve a slot and to respect the sanitary measures. Discover the selection of journalists from Le Figaro.


William Turner at the Jacquemart-André Museum

Genius or mad? Realistic or romantic? Who was William Turner? Thanks to Tate Britain, we discover a painter beyond appearances. The British museum, the richest in the master's works, has loaned the Jacquemart-André Museum more than 60 watercolors among the rarest, coming from the British workshop background, some of which are shown in France for the first time. Delivered from the shackles in which fifty years of art history had enclosed him, a work is less simplistic than it seems and therefore infinitely more fascinating.

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Marcel Gromaire at the Roubaix Museum of Art and Industry

The Roubaix Museum of Art and Industry dedicates a rich retrospective to Marcel Gromaire, painter traveling companion of the Communist Party. An exhibition which magnifies the worker, paid holidays, the gay Paris and the Borinage and which takes here, in this formerly working-class North which saw the birth of the artist, all its breadth and all its meaning.

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Nan Goldin at the City of the Popes in Avignon

In Avignon, around a hundred photographs and slides were brought together in the Self-Portrait slideshow dedicated to Nan Goldin. The set was hung so as to form a large musical score on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition honoring the American artist of 66 years. Nan Goldin's images are already anchored in the collective unconscious, but paradoxically their modesty remains overwhelming.

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Drawing without reservation at the Museum of Decorative Arts

The “MAD”, as we say now, has the craziest collection of drawings, all styles, all eras, all techniques: 200,000 pieces, often arrived in whole series, some famous, but for the most part totally ignored . We admire the virtuoso trait of André-Charles Boulle, the charcoal of Paul Renouard or an entire wall of Katagami, Japanese stencils for printing fabrics, which alone is worth a visit.

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Pompeii at the Grand Palais

Brrrrraoum! Every quarter of an hour, on a giant screen and its stereo dolby, the volcano erupts and the Grand Palais trembles. Then, from this digital Vesuvius, 4 km³ of pumice stones and fiery clouds are vomited, retro-projected on all the surfaces of the immense salon d'honneur. The black is done. Here we are buried. Unlike previous exhibitions, such as that of 2011 in Paris at the Maillol Museum or that, very rich and already thundering, mounted in 2013 in London, at the British Museum, this is above all an "immersive show".

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Contemporary photography at the Musée du Quai-Branly

For its first major exhibition of only contemporary photography, the Musée du Quai-Branly has relied on slowness and detour through poetry: a hundred works, photographs and videos, in almost equal parts, slowly deployed over 2000 m² as a long river. The visitor is invited to become this sensitive viewer who sets out, through image and thought, on the four continents (Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania) and builds his own story, like any reader of a great book.

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Christo at the Pompidou Center

“I answer all the questions, but no religion, no politics, no other artists (laughs) . I'm 84, almost 85, I have the right to talk about myself ” . Thus spoke Christo, when we met him, one last time, in New York, in his studio in Manhattan, on March 2. The Center Pompidou pays tribute to the Bulgarian visual artist and his wife Jeanne-Claude in a superb exhibition on his Parisian years and of course the Pont-Neuf packaged in 1985.

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The art of recycling at Villa Datris in the Vaucluse

It is a charming house from 1870 which was first that of a wine merchant, before being that of antique dealers, in the heart of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. This summer, a red arch welcomes the already numerous public with regard to the diet that strikes all public places. We enter the field of recovery and inventiveness, this work of the hand, abandoned by conceptual art, which transforms waste into find and raw material. It is therefore tremendously invigorating to penetrate this backdrop of the decor and see art born from everything that our society abandons.

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Black suns at the Louvre-Lens

It is not a color for the physicist. It represents an abysmal challenge for any artist. The Louvre-Lens ventures into the land of black gold: paintings from the 14th century, Outrenoirs de Soulages, extracts from the most beautiful films of the seventh art in black and white ( La Nuit du Chasseur , Nosferatu ) ... According to this color which is not one, the museum succeeds in a paradoxically dazzling exhibition in 180 old and contemporary works.

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Parisians in the 1940 exodus from the Liberation Museum

The dark period of the Second World War, which threw 8 million French people on the roads - and completely emptied Paris - has obviously left traces in the collective memory. By presenting The Parisians in the 1940 exodus , the Musée de la Liberation de Paris reminds us of it in a simple and accessible way, using pictures of families pushing carts filled to the brim, and full of the last hopes of save what could still be.

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Source: lefigaro

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