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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hermitage Amsterdam
At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century
Dates: 20 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Decorative
Address: Amstel 51 Amsterdam 11675
Tel: +31-20-5308755 Website
This huge exhibition—featuring more than 2,000 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg—inaugurates the Russian museum’s Amsterdam’s home in the newly restored 17th-century Amstelhof (now the Hermitage’s sole foreign exhibition centre). The space has been designed by the architectural firm Merkx+Girod to give an impression of the splendour of public rooms in which the court met in the royal palaces in St Petersburg and Moscow. Russia vacillated in
the 19th century between Francophile and “native” Slavic and Byzantine poles: the court fashioned its taste on European or national styles and more often than not a combination of the two. The tsars patronised artists and craftsmen from Italy, France and Germany, and British gardeners to ensure that the Russian court kept pace with developments in western Europe, and a succession of German tsarinas ensured a regular flow of works by Romantic and Nazarene artists. In the court costumes and furniture we see the native adaptation of the same sequence of styles seen elsewhere—neo-classical, Egyptian, Gothic revival and art nouveau. In this show are ball gowns and uniforms, jewellery by Fabergé, court paintings, furniture, silver, clocks and watches and Sèvres and other porcelain dinner services. D.L.
A. Malyukov, after original by Franz Krüger, Alexandra Feodorovna, 1836.
Annemasse, France
Villa du Parc
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 12, rue de Genève Annemasse 74100
Tel: +33 (0)4 50 38 84 61 Website
Athens, Greece
National Gallery Athens
The Birth of Neoclassicism in France: Masterpieces from the Musée du Louvre
Dates: 28 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 1 Michalakopoulou Street, 50 Vassilios Constantinou Street Athens GR-115 28
Tel: +30 210 723 5857 Website
Avignon, France
Collection Lambert
Sans Titre Number 1
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5, rue Violette Avignon 84000
Tel: +33 (0)4 90 16 56 20 Website
Barbizon, France
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Alexandre Perigot: Funky Pipe
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 12 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10 bis, rue du 23 Aout Barbizon 77630
Tel: +33 (0)1 60 69 23 12 Website
Berlin, Germany
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Strangers: Images of the Other in Germany and France, 1870 - Present
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Pei-building, Unter den Linden 2 Berlin D-10117
Tel: +49 - (0)30 - 20304 - 0 Website
Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Galleria Continua Le Moulin
Sphères 2009
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 30 May 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Le Moulin, 46 rue de la Ferté Gaucher Boissy-le-Châtel 77169
Tel: +33.(0)1.64.203950 Website
Bordeaux, France
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain
Planetary Culture
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 10 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: L’Entrepôt Laine, 7, rue Ferrère Bordeaux 33000
Tel: +33 (0)5 56 00 81 50 Website
Insiders: Experience, Practise, Know-How
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: L’Entrepôt Laine, 7, rue Ferrère Bordeaux 33000
Tel: +33 (0)5 56 00 81 50 Website
Emilia and Ilya Kabakov: 52 Interviews in a Community Kitchen
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: L’Entrepôt Laine, 7, rue Ferrère Bordeaux 33000
Tel: +33 (0)5 56 00 81 50 Website
Where Have the Fairies Gone?
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: L’Entrepôt Laine, 7, rue Ferrère Bordeaux 33000
Tel: +33 (0)5 56 00 81 50 Website
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Jasper Morrison: Take a Seat
Dates: 5 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Hôtel de Lalande, 39, rue Bouffard Bordeaux 33000
Tel: +33 (0)5 56 10 14 00 Website
Chatou, France
Centre National de L’Estampe et de l’Art Imprime (
Exhibition Fleuves
Dates: 13 Sep 09 - 17 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: maison levanneur, île des impressionnistes Chatou 78400
Tel: +33 (0)1 39 52 45 35 Website
Cherbourg Octeville, France
Le Point du Jour Editeur
Jordi Colomer
Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 24 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Le Point du Jour 109 Avenue de Paris Cherbourg Octeville 50100
Tel: +33 2 33 22 99 23 Website
Dijon, France
Musée Magnin
Les Heures du Jour
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 4, rue Bons-Enfants Dijon 21000
Tel: +33 (0)3 80 67 11 10 Website
Dublin, Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Philippe Parreno
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Address: Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 612 9900 Website
While elements of this show have been exhibited earlier this year at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Kunsthalle Zurich, this version comes in a slightly different guise. The Algerian-born artist has worked closely with the museum’s director, Enrique Juncosa, and head of exhibitions, Rachel Thomas, to make use of the particular architectural spaces to present this show of 14 works. There are site-specific works tailored to the show, such as Orange Bay (After Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment of Future History), 2002-09, “an orange Plexiglas work covering all of the windows in the galleries so that all works will be seen in an orange glow”, said Thomas. The show is supported by L’Ambassade de France en Irelande.
The Boy from Mars, 2003.
Erstein, France
Musée Würth
Shades of Expression: Inks and Watercolours
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 16 May 10
Categories: Curious
Address: rue Georges Beese Erstein
Tel: +33(0)3 88 64 74 84 Website
Frankfurt, Germany
Museum für Angewandte Kunst
André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732): a New Style for Europe
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Decorative
Address: Schaumainkai 17 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 34037 Website
The influence on European furniture culture of the renowned sculptor and cabinet maker to Louis XIV André Charles Boulle is explored in this major show of about 150 pieces of furniture, bronzes, clocks, tapestries, paintings and drawings selected by art historians Jean Nérée Ronfort and Jean Dominique Augarde with Ulrich Schneider, director of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst.
Boulle found success early, being invited by Louis XIV into his workshops at the Palais du Louvre before the age of 30, and his designs soon became symbols of prosperity and success, a position they still hold, with his designs featuring in the world’s leading museums and private collections. The king of Spain and the electors of Saxony and Bavaria were drawn to his elaborate works that combined such materials as gilt bronze, exotic woods, tortoiseshell and brass to create elaborate ornaments and floral marquetry.
Objects have been loaned by 44 institutions, including the Hermitage, St Petersburg, Le Mobilier National, Paris, and the Royal Collection of Sweden, signifying Boulle’s widespread and lasting international influence. The show is under the patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and Horst Köhler, President of Germany.
Sphinx, 17th century.
Grenoble, France
Le Magasin
Jan De Cock
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Bouchayer-Viallet, 155 cours Berriat Grenoble 38028
Tel: +33 (0)4 76 21 95 84 Website
Portrait of the Artist as a Biker
Dates: 11 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Bouchayer-Viallet, 155 cours Berriat Grenoble 38028
Tel: +33 (0)4 76 21 95 84 Website
Musée de Grenoble
Gaston Chaissac: Rustic Poet and Modern Painter
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 5, place Lavalette Grenoble 38010
Tel: +33 (0)4 76 63 44 44 Website
Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Centre d’Art d’Ivry (Le Crédac)
Group Show: Ayse Erkmen, Seza Paker, Aydan Murtezaoglu and Bulent Sangar
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 93, avenue Georges Gosnat Ivry-sur-Seine 94200
Tel: +33 (0)1 49 60 25 01 Website
Lyon, France
Biennale de Lyon
10th Biennale de Lyon
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Biennials
Address: Various Venues Lyon
Tel: Website
For the tenth Biennale de Lyon the Paris and San Francisco-based curator and critic Hou Hanru has focused on the opposing notions of spectacle and the everyday in our society, a theme, he feels, that has a particular resonance at this time. “This biennale happens at a time of financial and economic crisis, but it’s also about questioning the profound roots of the social system that we are in,” he told The Art Newspaper. “I was looking how to put these two opposing notions together to create new energy and new dynamics.” Hou, who is director of exhibitions and public programmes and chair of exhibition and museum studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, curated the 2007 Istanbul Biennale, and lived in France for 16 years before moving to the US in 1990.
The works of nearly 60 international artists (see below) are on display in a variety of venues across the city of Lyons and surrounding areas, and arranged in four main chapters across four museums and public spaces in an interactive way to create what Hou describes as an “urban experience” that reflects the dynamism of the themes of spectacle and everyday. “ You go into a space and it’s like you walk through a city. You will bump into the work of artists who are working on different chapters that somehow try to transform everyday objects.”
“The Magic of Things” focuses on artists who transform such objects, situations and environments, “Celebrating the Drift” explores urban spaces inspired by the situationist strategy of “drifting” (dérive), and “Another World” is Possible” consists of works that envision new social orders and alternative models of living in an age of globalisation.
The fourth section, “Living Together”, which is mainly housed within the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, “reactivates” works from the collection, or which have been exhibited
in the museum in the past, to create a platform for discussion within different communities. “I feel a museum is not only a place for conservation and display,” says Hou. “It is about
opening its memory up to the public.” For instance, the Paris-based Turkish artist Sarkis is reshowing, with new elements, the central part of his 2002 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, L’Ouverture, in which air is blown into the gallery through a ventilation system scattering pieces of newspapers from around the world. A series of conferences, happenings, readings and dance and musical events will then take place in this space while the ventilation system is closed down.
Linked to “Living Together” is a related section, “Veduta”, in which three artists or groups of artists have been invited to take residence in the Lyons suburbs to make new works with the involvement of the largely immigrant inhabitants that will be shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art. Eko Nogroho will create puppet shows with local youths, collective Bik Van der Pol builds a floating platform over a lake for discussions and leisure activities, and French artist Robert Milin, who is making ten light boxes featuring sentences from inhabitants talking about their dreams and desires.
About half of the works are new commissions, including a film by Maria Thereza Alves, an installation by Jimmie Durham, two large site specific installations by Pedro Cabrita Reis, a performance piece by Istanbul artist Ha Za Vu Zu and wall drawings by Dan Perjovschi. Michael Lin’s What a Difference a Day Made, shown in the Shanghai Gallery of Art last year, is a reconstruction of a Shanghai shop
of everyday household objects. The artist has invited magicians and acrobats to perform with the objects, which are then reclassified and stored within the shop.
The four main strands of the biennale are shown in two converted warehouses—La Sucriére, the flagship venue of the biennale since 2003, and the Bichat Warehouse, an 800 sq. m former arsenal that is being used for the first time, which houses a single work, a neon drawing by Pedro Cabrita Reis—and the Bullukian Foundation, as well as the city’s Renzo Piano-designed Museum of Contemporary Art. But the city as a whole embraces the event; interventions planned for the city’s streets include a whole series of large-scale murals by San Francisco-based Rigo 23.
The biennale is not just the tenth in Lyons, but the first after a trio of themed trilogies, so was there pressure on Hou to mark this edition in some way? “The number is not that important but it’s a conjunction of different elements: the number, the timing and the momentum of now,” he said.
“I don’t pretend to have the ambition to say this [biennale] will be a revolution...but I think that it is an interesting opportunity for us to think what a biennial, or even in the wider sense a cultural institution, should do in our times” explains the Chinese curator. James Hobbs
Sarkis, Le Monde est Illisible, Mon Coeur Si, installation view at the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyons in 2002
Lyons, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Modern Art
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 20, place des Terreaux, Palais Saint-Pierre Lyons 69001
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 10 17 40 Website
Picasso, Matisse, Dubuffet, Bacon
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 20, place des Terreaux, Palais Saint-Pierre Lyons 69001
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 10 17 40 Website
La Dation: un mode d’enrichissement des collections
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: 20, place des Terreaux, Palais Saint-Pierre Lyons 69001
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 10 17 40 Website
Autour du Bois Gravé Lyonnais
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 20, place des Terreaux, Palais Saint-Pierre Lyons 69001
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 10 17 40 Website
Musée d’Art Contemporain
10th Lyons Biennial
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Biennials
Address: 81 Cité Internationale, quai Charles de Gaulle Lyons 69001
Tel: +33 (0)4 72 69 17 17 Website
Malaga, Spain
Museo Picasso Malaga
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Dates: 19 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Palacio de Buenavista, San Agustín, 8 Malaga 29015
Tel: +34 952 12 76 00 Website
Swiss-born Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) is an artist whose work transcends boundaries. A real “renaissance artist”, Taeuber-Arp embraced many disciplines, from painting and embroidery to puppetry and interior design, with equal vigour and intensity. She was greatly admired by contemporaries such as surrealist Hugnet, Kandinsky and her husband, fellow artist and collaborator Jean Arp, and the German artist Hugo Ball once said: “Everything to do with Taeuber has the luminosity of sunlight…she is full of invention, whim and extravagance”. An active member of multiple avant-garde movements, her work shows elements of dada, constructivism and abstraction. Curated by Spanish scholar Estrella de Diego, this exhibition—the first of its kind in Spain—brings together 130 pieces including paintings, textiles, drawings, furniture, photographs, plans, puppets and collages drawn from public and private collections in Germany, France, Switzerland and the US.
The exhibition is divided into three sections. The first, “Broken Rhythms” focuses on her early work when constructivism and dada coexisted openly. This section contains Portrait of Jean Arp, 1918, one of the artist’s iconic “dada heads”. “Inhabiting Spaces” explores her involvement in interior design and architectural projects. The final section, “Living Geometry” is devoted to the display of a series of her striking, geometrical abstractions. E.S.
Portrait of Jean Arp, 1918
Marseilles, France
Musée Cantini
De La Scene au Tableau
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue Grignan Marseilles 13006
Tel: +33 (0)4 91 54 77 75 Website
Metz, France
Frac Lorraine, 49 Nord 6 Est
Aesthetics of the Poles: the Will of the Ice
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: 1 bis rue des Trinitaires Metz F-57000
Tel: +33 (0)3 87 74 20 02 Website
Nantes, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Christiane Geoffroy
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10, rue Georges Clemenceau Nantes 44000
Tel: +33 (0)2 51 17 45 00 Website
Fascinating Italy: from Degas to Picasso
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 10, rue Georges Clemenceau Nantes 44000
Tel: +33 (0)2 51 17 45 00 Website
The Photographs of Brassaï
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 10, rue Georges Clemenceau Nantes 44000
Tel: +33 (0)2 51 17 45 00 Website
New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Medieval
Address: 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York 10028-0198
Tel: +1 212-535-7710 Website
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Nice, France
Galerie des Ponchettes
Pat Andrea: Projet Alice
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 77, quai des Etats-Unis Nice 06200
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 62 31 24 Website
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Moo Chew Wong
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 33, avenue des Baumettes Nice 06000
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 15 28 28 Website
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain
Robert Longo
Dates: 27 Jun 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Promenade des Arts Nice 06300
Tel: +33 (0)4 97 13 42 01 Website
Philippe Favier: Papeteries
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Promenade des Arts Nice 06300
Tel: +33 (0)4 97 13 42 01 Website
Villa Arson
Traits Noirs: Moo Chew Wong
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 20, avenue Stephen Liégeard Nice 06105
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 07 73 73 Website
Orleans, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in the Collections of the Pompidou Centre and the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, rue Fernand Rabier Orleans 45000
Tel: +33 (0)2 38 79 21 55 Website
Paris, France
Air de Paris
La Suite
Dates: 5 Sep 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 32, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 23 02 77 Website
Art: Concept
Francis Baudevin
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 2 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 16, rue Duchefdelaville Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 60 90 30 Website
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Site François Mi
The Legend of King Arthur
Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: Quai François-Mauriac Paris 75706
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 79 41 18 Website
Centre Pompidou
Surrealist Photography
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Pierre Soulages
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Nouveau Festival
Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 23 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
The Subversion of Images
Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Video & New Media
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Les Archipels Reinventes
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Jim Hodges: Love, Etc
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Habiter 2050
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Design
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou
Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 23 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, rue du Renard Paris 75191
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 Website
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
L’Ecole de la Liberté
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Curious
Address: 14, rue Bonaparte Paris 75272
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 50 00 Website
L’Académie Mise a Nu
Dates: 26 Oct 09 - 29 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Curious
Address: 14, rue Bonaparte Paris 75272
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 50 00 Website
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain
Born in the Streets: Graffiti
Dates: 7 Jul 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 261, boulevard Raspail Paris 75014
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 18 56 50 Website
Fondation Dina Vierny—Musée Maillol
Serge Poliakoff
Dates: 3 Sep 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 61, rue de Grenelle Paris 75007
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 22 59 58 Website
Galerie 1900-2000
Wols Photographs
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 15 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8 rue Bonaparte Paris 75006
Tel: +33(0)1 43 25 84 20 Website
Galerie Aline Vidal
Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Dates: 5 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 70, rue Bonaparte Paris 75006
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 26 08 68 Website
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Daniel Lergon
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, Rue de Saintonge Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 71 90 Website
Ziad Antar
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 19, Rue de Saintonge Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 71 90 Website
Galerie Chantal Crousel
Wang Bing
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 38 87 Website
Andy Warhol
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 5 Dec 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 10 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 38 87 Website
Galerie Daniel Templon
Philippe Cognee
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 30, rue Beaubourg Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10 Website
Clay Ketter
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 30, rue Beaubourg Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10 Website
Galerie de France
Visages
Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 54, rue de la Verrerie Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 38 00 Website
Galerie Denise René Espace Marais
Moutachar
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 22 rue Charlot Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 87 73 94 Website
Happy Yellow
Dates: 24 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 22 rue Charlot Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 87 73 94 Website
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Farhad Moshiri
Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 1 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Middle East
Address: 76, rue de Turenne & 10 impasse Saint-Claude Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 16 79 79 Website
Galerie Françoise Paviot
Barbara Crane
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 57, rue Sainte-Anne Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 60 10 01 Website
Galerie Frédéric Giroux
Barbara Noiret
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8 rue Charlot Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 01 02 Website
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont
Shirin Neshat
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 38, avenue Matignon Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 89 89 00 Website
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Katinka Bock
Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 78, rue Julien-Lacroix Paris 75020
Tel: +33 1 42 03 05 65 Website
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Adam and Olly
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 15 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5, rue Debelleyme Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 19 37 Website
Galerie Lahumière
Gruppe 33, Serge Brignoni
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 17, rue du Parc Royal Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 77 27 74 Website
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Pierre Alechinsky
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 13, rue de Téhéran Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 63 13 19 Website
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
John Baldessari
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 79, rue du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 04 70 52 Website
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Jorge Queiroz
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 67 68 Website
Lorna Simpson
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Photography
Address: 3, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 67 68 Website
Galerie Nelson-Freeman
Helen Mirra
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 22 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 59, rue Quincampoix Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 74 56 Website
Galerie Patrick Seguin
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 5, rue Taillandiers Paris 75011
Tel: +33 (0) 1 4700 3235 Website
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Renoir in the 20th Century
Dates: 23 Sep 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 3, avenue Général Eisenhower Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 13 17 17 Website
From Byzantium to Istanbul: One Port for Two Continents
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 3, avenue Général Eisenhower Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 13 17 17 Website
gb agency
Deimantes Narkevicius
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 20, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 79 07 13 Website
Institut du Monde Arabe
Palestine: Creation In All Its States
Dates: 23 Jun 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website
This year saw important developments in the field of Middle Eastern contemporary art, as established and up-and-coming artists from the region followed in the footsteps of their Chinese and Russian counterparts in capturing the attention of international collectors and sellers. Charles Saatchi stamped a seal of approval on the field with his exhibition “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East”.
Amid the furore, the voice of Palestinian artists is rising. This month, for the first time, the territories will be represented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in an exciting exhibition that, according to curator Salwa Mikdadi, “underscores the chronic impermanence faced by Palestinian artists”.
Within this context, the exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) could not be more timely. For 20 years, the IMA has sought to convey the importance and breadth of contemporary Arab art, becoming a crucial platform between two cultures. This show brings together the work of 19 artists, men and women, across generations, working in varying techniques, living and locally or abroad, who commune in a Palestinian aesthetic forged in exile and displacement.
Taysir Batniji and Khalil Rabah, two artists who are showing in Venice, explore these themes respectively in a series of 26 photographs, Miradors, 2008 and United States of Palestine Airlines, London Office, 2007, and Mona Hatoum is represented by Every Door a Wall, 2003, which describes through silkscreen the plight of illegal immigrants smuggled inside a truck.
The media – from drawings and paintings, photography, video and installation art – mix with ease, and in the breadth of the curatorial choice, we are provided with an interesting overview of the state of Palestinian art in the 21st century. Caroline Cardon
The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Khalili Collection
Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 14 Mar 10
Categories: Middle East
Address: 1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard Place Mohammed-V Paris 75005
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 51 38 38 Website
Jeu de Paume
Vezzoli
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, place de la Concorde Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 13 36 Website
Fellini: the Grand Parade
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 1, place de la Concorde Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 03 13 36 Website
Jeu de Paume, site Sully
Samuel Bianchini: All Over
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 30 Mar 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website
Tris Vonna-Michell
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website
Denise Colomb and the West Indies
Dates: 29 Sep 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Hôtel de Sully, 62, rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75002
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 74 47 75 Website
La Maison Rouge—Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Jean-Jaques Lebel
Dates: 25 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 10, boulevard de la Bastille Paris 75012
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 01 08 81 Website
Le Musée Carnavalet
The French Revolution
Dates: 30 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 23, rue de Sévigné Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 59 58 58 Website
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Delpire & Cie
Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: 5-7, rue de Fourcy Paris 75004
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 75 00 Website
Musée Dapper
The Art of Man: Meaning and Symbolism of Male Ornaments in Africa and Oceania
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 11 Jul 10
Categories: African
Decorative
Address: 35 bis, rue Paul Valery Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 00 91 75 Website
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Drawing in Design
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website
Furniture Boom: Furniture from 1945-75
Dates: 8 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website
Madeleine Vionnet
Dates: 24 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website
Hommages to Toulouse-Lautrec’s Graphic Design
Dates: 18 Jun 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: Palais du Louvre, 105-107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50 Website
Musée du Louvre
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese...
Dates: 17 Sep 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website
Pierre Soulages
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website
Joseph Kosuth
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 21 Jun 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website
At the Court of the Great Turk: Kaftans from Topkapi Palace
Dates: 24 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 34-36, quai du Louvre, place du Carrousel Paris 75058
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 20 54 52 Website
Musée du Luxembourg
Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 19, rue de Vaugirard Paris 75006
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 34 25 95 Website
Musée du Quai Branly
Photoquai, Second Biennial Festival: World Images
Dates: 22 Sep 09 - 22 Nov 09
Categories: Biennials
Photography
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website
The second Photoquai biennial of non-western photography has been organised by Iranian curator Anahita Ghabaian- Ettehadieh. The event, held on the embankment of the Seine opposite the Quai Branly museum, includes 50 contemporary photographers from around the world. Within the museum there will also be displays of Iranian photography from the 19th century to today. R.S.
Teotihuacan: City of the Gods
Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Latin American
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website
Présence Africaine: a Forum, a Movement and a Network
Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Contemporary (1970-present)
African
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website
Artists of Abomey: Discovering an African Kingdom
Dates: 10 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
African
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC
Deadline
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website
Albert Oehlen
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 11, avenue du Président Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Website
Musée d’Orsay
James Ensor
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 4 Feb 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website
Eugène Grasset
Dates: 12 Oct 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Design
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 23 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website
Art Nouveau Revival
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 4 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Design
Address: 62, rue de Lille Paris 75343
Tel: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14 Website
Musée Guimet
Homage to Master Itaro Yamaguchi
Dates: 4 Nov 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Decorative
Address: 6, place d’Iéna Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 56 52 53 39 Website
Land of the Dragon: Sacred Art of Bhutan
Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Address: 6, place d’Iéna Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 56 52 53 39 Website
Musée Jacquemart-André
Brueghel, Memling, Van Eyck: the Brukenthal Collection
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 158, boulevard Haussmann Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 89 04 91 Website
Continuing its series of exhibitions focused on major collectors, the Jacquemart-André Museum presents 50 Flemish, Italian, German and Dutch works amassed by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803). The pieces are drawn from the Brukenthal National Museum in Romania—home to one of the most prestigious art collections in Central Europe.
A career politician, Brukenthal was made governor of his native Transylvania by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who considered him a close personal adviser. He began acquiring his collection in Vienna and quickly earned a reputation as an insatiable collector with a discerning eye, purchasing nearly 16,000 books, 800 etchings, 12,000 paintings and a number of objets d’art. Particularly rich in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings—the Golden Age of Art in the Low Countries—the collection was supplemented by a number of works presented to him by Maria Theresa. His baroque palace in Sibiu, central Romania, was constructed as a showcase for his collection and upon his death in 1803 it was opened to the public.
The exhibition aims to show the quality of his collection by presenting the very best pieces amassed by Brukenthal. Most of the works are Flemish, a school particularly popular with 18th-century Viennese collectors. The show is arranged in five thematic sections: portraits, landscapes, genre paintings, still-lifes and history painting.
The segment dedicated to portraiture is dominated by works by the Flemish Primitives, a group of 15th-century artists concerned with the precise rendering of details such as jewellery, fabrics and furs. The oldest portrait by Van Eyck, Portrait of the Man in a Blue Turban (1430-33), shows the artist’s desire to include details like the sitter’s fur coat and beard, and Hans Memling’s Portrait of Reading Man (1485) shows the careful rendering of the book’s gilded pages. Included in the section devoted to landscapes is one of Bruegel’s best known works, Massacre of the Innocents (1566-67), a piece depicting villagers being slaughtered by soldiers following the orders of Philip II of Spain. Visitors can see genre paintings by Dutch artists David Teniers and Frans Van Mieris, still-lifes by Jan Davidsz de Heem and Erasmus Quellinus and history paintings by Jacob Jordaens. Pieces by Italian masters Lorenzo Lotto and Titian are also included in the display.
The show is curated by Flemish art specialist Jan de Maere and Jacquemart-André curator Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot. E.S.
Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents, 1566-67
Musée Marmottan Monet
Fauves and Expressionists: From Van Dongen to Otto Dix
Dates: 28 Oct 09 - 20 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: 2, rue Louis-Boilly Paris 75016
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 96 50 33 Website
Musée National Auguste Rodin
Matisse-Rodin: the History of an Encounter
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Hôtel de Biron, 79, rue de Varenne Paris 75007
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 18 61 10 Website
Palais de Tokyo
Chasing Napoleon
Dates: 15 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 13,avenue du President Wilson Paris 75116
Tel: +33 (0)1 47 23 3866 Website
Pinacothèque de Paris
The Dutch Golden Age: from Rembrandt to Vermeer
Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 28, place de la Madeleine Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 25 71 41 Website
Praz-Delavallade
Johannes Wohnseifer
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 28, rue Louise Weiss Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 86 20 00 Website
Praz-Delavallade, Space II
Johannes Wohnseifer
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Curious
Address: 10, rue Duchefdelaville Paris 75013
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 70 75 Website
Sutton Lane, Paris
Liz Deschenes
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 6 rue de Braque Paris 75003
Tel: +33 1 40 29 08 92 Website
Yvon Lambert Paris
Locuc Soluc
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 108, rue Vielle du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33 Website
Jonathan Monk and Ryan Gander
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 108, rue Vielle du Temple Paris 75003
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33 Website
Quimper, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts
François Béalu: Engraver and Designer
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: 40, place Saint-Corentin Quimper 29000
Tel: +33 (0)2 98 95 45 20 Website
Rouen, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts Rouen
Geneviève Asse
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, place Restout Rouen 76000
Tel: +33 (0)2 35 71 28 40 Website
Rueil-Malmaison, France
Musée du Château de Malmaison
Josephine's Cellar: Wine at Malmaison during the Empire
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 8 Mar 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Château de Malmaison, avenue du château Rueil-Malmaison 92500
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 29 05 55 Website
Saint-Étienne, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole
The Attraction of Space
Dates: 14 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Curious
Address: La Terrasse, BP 80241 Saint-Étienne 42006
Tel: +33 (0)4 77 79 52 52 Website
Strasbourg, France
Galerie Robert Heitz
Hans Haug, Man of Museums : Passion at Work
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Palais Rohan , 2, place du Château Strasbourg 67000
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 52 50 00 Website
Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg
10,000 Years of History: Ten Years of Archaeological Exhibitions in Alsace
Dates: 6 Nov 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Palais Rohan, 2, place du Château Strasbourg 67000
Tel: 03 88 52 50 00 Website
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain
Severine Hubard: Village
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 19 Sep 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, place Hans Arp Strasbourg 67000
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 23 31 31 Website
Pierre Soulages: Time for Paper
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, place Hans Arp Strasbourg 67000
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 23 31 31 Website
Sarkis
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 30 Jun 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 1, place Hans Arp Strasbourg 67000
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 23 31 31 Website
Toulouse, France
Les Abattoirs
Barceló Avant Barceló (1973-82)
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 28 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 76 allées Charles-de-Fitte Toulouse 31300
Tel: +33 (0)5 62 48 58 00 Website
Tourcoing, France
Le Fresnoy
Never Dance Alone
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: National Studio of Contemporary Arts, 22, rue du Fresnoy Tourcoing 59202
Tel: +33 (0)3 20 28 38 00 Website
Tours, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Max Ernst: the Garden of France
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 18, place François Sicard Tours 37000
Tel: +33 (0)2 47 05 68 73 Website
Versailles, France
Château de Versailles
Xavier Veilhan
Dates: 13 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Musée du Château Versailles 78000
Tel: +33 (0)1 30 83 77 01 Website
As only the second contemporary artist to show works at the Château de Versailles following the Jeff Koons exhibition of 2008, French artist Xavier Veilhan has a hard act to follow in terms of impact. Unlike Koons, who placed existing works within the palace, Paris-based Veilhan is showing seven specially commissioned sculptural pieces in the manicured gardens. Works include a series of statues of famous architects—including Claude Parent, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando—a 100-metre-high fountain in the middle of the Grand Canal that pays homage to Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column sculpture of 1938, and a violet-coloured carriage and horses frozen in motion in the Court of Honour. Rosie Spencer
“‘Veilhan Versailles’ is a stroll, an itinerary, a journey through the landscape-territory of Versailles,” says Laurent Le Bon, the exhibition organiser. “Mainly running along the east-west axis outside the château itself, my proposal features a series of works specially produced for this occasion that create a contemporary dotted line which splits in two the masterly garden lay-out of Le Nôtre,” says Veilhan.
Tadao Ando in the Court of Honour
Louis XIV: Man and King
Dates: 20 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Address: Musée du Château Versailles 78000
Tel: +33 (0)1 30 83 77 01 Website
Vienna, Austria
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Charles the Bold: Splendour and Fall of the Last Duke of Burgundy
Dates: 15 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Maria Theresien-Platz Vienna A-1010
Tel: +43 (0)1 525 240 Website
The favourite impresa or heraldic emblem of Charles the Bold was a device showing the flint, steel and flames. With hindsight, this piece of armorial self-promotion ironically summarises the duke’s essential weakness, rather than the power and energy he intended it to project. The English and German translations of his posthumous epithet “le Téméraire”—“the Bold”, “der Kühne”—fail to convey the harmonics of the French: foolhardy, rash or overreaching, as well as brave and daring. Sparks flying from steel and stone can set fires that run out of control as well as provide heat and light. Charles’s reign brought the Duchy of Burgundy to its white-heat culmination as one of the most brilliant, aesthetically refined European courts of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and finally to cinders and dust with his ignominious death on the battlefield of Nancy.
The four Valois Dukes of Burgundy, a branch of the French royal house, built up their territories from the accession of Philip the Bold (“le Hardi”) in 1363 by inheritance, marriage, conquest and purchase. Over four generations, their territories expanded from an area of about a 100-mile radius around Dijon and Besançon to a state that also included all of present-day Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and most of north-eastern France. Until Charles the Bold, the dukes had—not without dollops of good luck—advantageously manipulated their geographical position between France, the Holy Roman Empire and England (for example, Charles married Mary of York, the sister of Edward IV, to whom Charles had made massive loans, thus binding England to Burgundy with ties of marriage and money). The dukes were also lavish patrons of the arts, none more so than Charles’s father, Philip the Good (1396-1464) as well as Charles himself.
This exhibition, having been seen in Bern and Bruges, places intimately connected with Charles’s death and life, now comes to its final stage in the city most closely associated with the heirs to the bulk of the Burgundian wealth and power, the Habsburgs. On show are some of the most magnificent works created for the court of Charles the Bold (1433-77), who reigned from his father’s death in 1467.
It features paintings by artists patronised by the Burgundian dukes, most notably Roger van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Jan van Eyck, textiles including Arras and Tournai tapestries, embroideries, vestments, court costumes and other luxury fabrics, and arms and armour (some tailor-made for Charles). Also included is metalwork and jewellery by Parisian, Bruges and Augsburg goldsmiths, among which are several precious gold chains with jewelled and enamelled pendants of the Order of the Golden Fleece, founded by Charles’s father in 1430. A highlight is the reliquary of St Lambert’s finger presented by the figure of Charles the Bold in his Milanese parade armour, supported by his patron, St George (Charles belonged to the Order of the Garter)—modelled on the figure of the same from Van Eyck’s Van der Paele altarpiece. The reliquary had been commissioned by Charles in 1467 and presented by him to the cathedral in Liège in 1471. Illuminated manuscripts (including Charles’s Book of Hours from the Getty) and other documents, medals and medallions, tableware, plate and ceramics round out the display.
The show is divided into six sections covering: Burgundian court culture; political administration and trade in the mid-15th century; objects directly related to Charles the Bold and Margaret of York; materials relating to the ceremonies of the meeting of the Emperor Frederick III and Charles in Trier in 1473; Charles’s ill-judged gamble on a war with the Swiss Confederation, 1474-77, which brought the break-up of the Valois hegemony with Charles’s death on the battlefield where, plundered, his naked corpse, ravaged by wolves, was later found (one of his favourite jewels, “The Three Brothers”, a setting of three rubies and three diamonds that was looted, eventually found its way into the hands of Elizabeth I, who prized it highly and is shown wearing it in Nicholas Hilliard’s The Ermine Portrait, 1585); and, finally, the Habsburg heritage (Charles’s daughter, Mary, married Maximilian I, bringing the Low Countries into the Habsburg sway).
The exhibition’s extremely well and intelligently designed catalogue has an English edition published by Mercatorfonds (£45, $80 hb ISBN 9789 061538592). Donald Lee
Reliquary of St Lambert’s finger
Vitry-sur-Seine cede, France
Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL)
Simon Starling
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 27 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Place de la Libération Vitry-sur-Seine cede 94404
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 91 64 20 Website
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