Paris city museum of modern art reopened
didier Meurgues
has reopened february the 2nd after technical refurbishment works with
an important exhibition about Bonnard (*) including the 5 Moscow
pannels and a smaller one about Pierre Huygues, which is "apparently"
an hommage to "Given, 1. the waterfall, 2. the lightgaz" (??!), in
french : "Etant donné 1. la chute d'eau, 2. le gaz d'éclairage" by
Duchamp, kept at the Philadelphia museum of art.
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6450
PS : the former special website is suppressed and now included in the
general website of the city of Paris, some pages being nevertheless
suppressed.
According to the museum map and my visit, the permanent exhibition
shows some very large formats, like the Dufy "fée électricité", 2 of
the "Barnes" dances by Matisse, the "Cardiff team" by Delaunay or
"walls" by Buren and Toroni, but results mainly of random... and
discontinuous donations and has been thus progressively focused on the
evolution, since 1901, of the art movements which concerned or saw
creations too in France, in particular (a bit like the Tate Britain in
UK), completed with some foreign artists direcly connected to them, but
without the generalist approach of the national museum of Beaubourg.
So, it is introduced by a large blue period Picasso, followed with
sections about the fauvism (Derain, Vlaminck, early Matisse), the
cubism (Picasso, Braque), the orphism (Delaunay), Dada (Arp, Bellmer),
the surealism (Chirico, Breton, Picabia, Brauner, Ernst, Ray), the
Paris school (Soutine, Modigliani, Van Dongen), Bonnard (*), Leger,
Dufy, Fautrier, Giacometti, Soulages, the Nouveau réalisme (Klein,
Arman, Cesar, Raysse), Hains, Villeglé, Fluxus (Ben, Brecht, Filliou),
the Figuration narrative (Erro, Cueco, Monory, Stampfli, Rancillac),
the Support surface minimalism (Viallat, Dezeuze, Buraglio), Morellet,
Buren, Nemours, Hantaï, Messager, Boltansky and younger artists
(Lavier, Frize, Othoniel, Huygues), etc.... The foreign section adds
mainly italian, german and belgian artists (Arte Povera with Penone
(teatcher at the ENSBA), Merz and Fabro ; Toroni, Roth, Broodthaers,
Richter, Polke, etc...), finally some contemporary germano-scandinave
and anglo-saxon artists, "apparently" linked to some french artists as
well (Feldmann, Fischli, Eliasson, Armleder, Weiss, Schiess, Brandl,
Morris, Gordon, etc...) and ends with a photo (Brassai, Model, etc...
and contemporary french and foreign artists) + a video section.
Except for minimalism.... and photo/video, of which I'm not really a
fan, and despite some obvious lacks not filled by donations or
acquisitions (Dali, Miro, Gris, Chagall, Tanguy, Duchamp, Larionov,
Gontcharova, Magnelli, Kupka, Masson, Helion, Brancusi, Dubuffet, de
Staël, Tinguely, Saint Phalle, Vasarely, Degottex, Alechinsky,
Bourgeois, Combas, Raynaud, Sechas, Hybert, Cognée, etc...), without
speaking of course of the non presented foreign schools from futurism
and expressionism to pop and contemporary art, etc... I apreciated this
renewed presentation of the city permanently presented collection,
which provides a rather good introduction to a century of art evolution
in France.
didier Meurgues
didier Meurgues
didier Meurgues a écrit :
> For those interested..., the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
> has reopened february the 2nd after technical refurbishment works with
> an important exhibition about Bonnard (*) including the 5 Moscow
> pannels and a smaller one about Pierre Huygues,
I mean : Pierre Huygue.
Bob Fusillo
because of its low budget. The lacking big names you mention are generally
available across town, and many of the lesser known people are not.
Damn -- we'll have to go to two museums -- exhausting!
rjf
"didier Meurgues" <erdni...@voila.fr> wrote in message
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didier Meurgues
Bob Fusillo a écrit :
> Thanks for the heads-up. The MAMVP has always been an anomoly, perhaps
> because of its low budget. The lacking big names you mention are generally
> available across town, and many of the lesser known people are not.
> Damn -- we'll have to go to two museums -- exhausting!
> rjf
>
> http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6450
Hi Bob,
In the MAMVP website, you can see some few picture of the collection
(8000 items) if you choose :
Collection/ Le parcours des collection/ then télécharger (the pdf
file), then clic to enlarge.
Among those that I like, I forgot as well in my 2 lists : Wou-Ki,
Garouste, Rouan, Ramette, Fauguet, Wang Du, Grand, Takis, Pierre &
Gilles, Veilhan, Calle, Di Rosa and 2 others that I still can't
remember....
PS : I don't give the names of the other french contemporary
artists.... that I DON'T like... !!! :+) :+) :+) or not working in
France but that I do apreciate, like the belgians Delvoye, Dautremont,
and the british Brown, Doigt, Conroy, Morley, Opie, or for the
americans Currin, Barney, etc... (I don't give the germans because of
the spelling...! !) :+)
but this website for ex. :
http://www.creativtv.net/archives/archivespt.html
gives a list of artists working in France with their complete names,
among those quoted in my MAMVP post, for a possible search in google,
for example :
http://stephan.barron.free.fr/2/pendaries_hantai/
http://www.mamco.ch/artistes.l-n/lavier.b.html ,
http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/O0016336.html (the furniture surface is
thickly painted...!)
http://www.creativtv.net/v2/adiaf/frize.html ,
http://www.gms.be/frize_text.html
http://www.alainsechas.com/all.php?date=2004&page=0&from=18
http://www.artistes-en-dialogue.org/raph01gb.htm , then use the lift to
see the photos
http://www.artistes-en-dialogue.org/piegi01gb.htm
http://pedagogie.ac-toulouse.fr/culture/epargne/rouan.htm
or in : http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/2342
http://www.insecula.com/salle/theme_40057_M0128.html
didier Meurgues