The exhibitions
● The treasures of MoMA at Jeu de Paume
It is the photographic exhibition par excellence, the one that crosses the European and North American avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century through two fabulous filters: the collection of the Swiss Thomas Walther and the MoMA in New York, which acquired more than 350 photographs in 2001 and 2017 and of which it constitutes the modern core. These lens icons were exhibited in 2015, already at MoMA, by Quentin Bajac, now director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. For the first time outside New York, here is a fabulous selection of around 230 images in the heart of Paris, from surrealism to the Bauhaus, on the edge of the Tuileries. Through their flawless knowledge, Quentin Bajac and Sarah Meister, also an ex of MoMA, have composed a limpid walk among the masterpieces, (
Record or runner in the city
, 1926, by El Lissitzky) and the finds (
Back crawl
, 1930, the enjoyment of the athletic body according to Kate Steinitz).
Beautiful scenography.
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