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Laurence Bertrand Dorléac: “With still life, artists talk about us”

2022-10-12T15:52:59.571Z


ENCOUNTER - This art historian revisits this genre with passion and ambition. His exhibition, which opens at the Louvre, offers a history of the representation of objects from prehistory to the present day.


First woman president of the National Foundation of Political Sciences, a body with control of Sciences Po's budget and strategy, director in this prestigious school of the "Arts and Societies" seminar, the art historian, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, 64 years old, received carte blanche from the Louvre for a major exhibition.

In the Napoleon hall, she has chosen 170 paintings, photographs, films, sculptures or installations to tell more than a story of the still life genre, that of the ways in which inanimate elements have been represented over the centuries and civilizations ( food, game, flowers, skulls, books, weapons, instruments, hourglasses, candles, etc.).

Its title, “Things”, is as simple as it is ambitious.

LE FIGARO.

- Is the abundant journey that opens at the Louvre and of which you are the curator the illustration of your essay

To end with still life

, a work published a few weeks ago by Gallimard?

Laurence BERTRAND DORLÉAC…

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