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Top of the bill: ideas for cultural outings this week

2022-03-15T15:18:51.856Z


THE FIGARO SELECTION - Exhibitions, concerts, shows… There are always more cultural events this week. To choose well, follow the advice of the editorial staff.


Exhibitions

Akseli Gallen-Kallela at Jacquemart-André

In such hard times, it will be beneficial to go to the North and its low-angled winter lights.

The Jacquemart-André Museum welcomes the great Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) and relieves him of his warrior epics of the Kalevala and his strong identification with the nation to follow him into the heart of nature.

This bold man belongs to the second generation of Finnish artists after Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) who left Germany and came to train in Paris.

The exhibition, which brings together nearly 70 works from public and private collections, including exceptional paintings from the Gallen-Kallela Museum in Espoo, begins with a tousled

Self

-portrait in front of the large easel, painted at the age of 20, on his arrival in our capital. Arts.

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