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Cy Twombly "The Ceiling" The Paris Louvre Museum recently
unveiled a 400 square-meter painting on the ceiling of its Bronze Room
created by American abstract expressionist painter Cy Twombly. The
monumental work titled "The Ceiling" is part of the Louvre's policy of
including contemporary artists along with its venerable classics. The
most well-known contemporary work at the Louvre is the controversial
I.M. Pei's glass pyramid in the museum's courtyard commissioned by
President Francois Mitterrand in the 1980s. Twombly, known for his
calligraphic-graffiti like freely scribbled paintings, follows two other
contemporary artists at the Louvre: Francois Morellet (French) and
Anselm Kiefer (German). Twombly's "Ceiling" painted deep blue and
adorned with disk shapes and names of ancient Greek sculptors, is
situated next to a room decorated in the 50's by the artist Georges
Braque.
Routes d'Arabie. Roads of Arabia is an exhibition of three hundred works at the Louvre that reals the archaeology and history of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia from prehistoric times to the dawn of the modern world. This exhibition invites visitors on a journey into the heart of Arabia, accompanied by a photographic exploration of the region’s sumptuous landscapes. It is conceived as a series of waypoints along the roads or trails criss-crossing the peninsula, including several of its major oases that were home in ancient times to powerful kingdoms. The exhibition then follows the pilgrims who traveled these same routes beginning in the seventh century, converging upon Islam’s holiest sites. Musée du Louvre, Napoleon hall, until Sept 27, 2010.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the first major retrospective dedicated to the artist in France since the one held at the Grand Palais in 1980. Laid out both thematically and chronologically, the exhibition retraces Monet’s career from the early 1860s to the last paintings in the Water Lilies cycle at the Musée de l’Orangerie. Sept 22-Jan. 24, 2011, Grand Palais, Paris.
France 1500, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance “Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance France 1500,” first major exhibition to examine this pivotal art period established during the reigns of Charles VII (1483-1515) and Louis XII (1498 to 1515) dominated by the personality of Anne of Brittany who was the wife successively of both kings. It is organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris) and the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum exhibition takes place in Paris (Grand Palais, October 6, 2010 to January 10, 2011) and in Chicago (February 26, 2011 to May 30, 2011).
FRANCE 1500: The Pictorial Arts at the Dawn of the Renaissance This exhibition, which is coordinated with the exhibition at the Grand Palais, brings together approximately 45 diverse works that include manuscripts, Books of Hours, single leaves and cuttings, coffrets with early xylographs, and stained glass. Among the artists are: Jean Bourdichon, the Master of the Très Petites Heures d’Anne de Bretagne, Jean Fouquet, Noel Bellemare, Guillaume Barbe, and many others. The themes of the exhibition--French Humanism, the Dominance of Paris, the Influence of Italy and the North, etc.—encourage a re-appreciation of the flourishing of the arts at the dawn of the Renaissance. Les Enluminures, Le Louvre des Antiquaires, 2 Place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris. Sept 9-Nov. 28, 2010.
Larry Clark, kiss the past hello A major retrospective of the photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark, born in 1943 in Tulsa USA. Features his legendary Tulsa (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983) photos as well as newer work such as pictures of New York and Los Angeles Latino skateboarders, "The Perfect Childhood" (1993) and "Punk Picasso " (2003) The exhibition includes a recently discovered 16mm film on the lives of addicts in Tulsa by Clark shot in 1968 and film footage featuring young Venezuelan skater Jonathan Velasquez, who was the main character of the film "Wassup Rockers" ( 2006). October 8-Jan 2, 2011) Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris. http://www.mam.paris.fr
Heinrich Kuhn One of the central figures (around 1900) of international Pictorialism, closely linked to Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, whose great ambition was to create photographs that could rival the artistic merits of painting. Known for his experiments with photographic printing techniques such as gum bichromate, the exhibition Includes works by Kuhn showing how he moved from Romantic" Impressionism to a less detailed, almost abstract style where only the study of light and the rendering of tonal values mattered, a style that reflected the development of the Vienna Secession with whom he often used to exhibit. He was also the undisputed master of the autochrome, a technique with rich and delicate colours perfected by the Lumière brothers, yet whose greatest exponents were the Anglo-Saxon Pictorialists. Oct. 2-Jan. 23, 2011, Musée de l’Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris.
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