From June 27, 2013 The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris presents a new display of its permanent collections, accessible free of charge since 2001. Conceived as a new itinerary to recapture the building’s original spaces, the tour highlights the architectural quality of the openings – the large bays giving the rooms exceptional light and perspective; the decompartmentalization creating amplified fluidity and spatiality.
The modern and contemporary collections presented here feature a significant selection of works by French and international artists, which the public is invited to discover through rich and original ensembles. The focus is on recent acquisitions (Lehmbruck, Freundlich, Tal Coat, Chaissac…) and the major donations that have helped build the museum’s collection (Dr. Maurice Girardin bequest, De Chirico bequest, L’Oréal donation, Michael Werner donation…). The latter reflects the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris’ exhibition policy in favor of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century art scene.
MODERN COLLECTIONS
The chosen itinerary combines rooms devoted to modern movements with monographic rooms. Beginning with spaces dedicated to Fauvism and Cubism, it reveals the diversity of media used (painting, ceramics, sculpture, drawing), and continues with the Ecole de Paris, the abstraction of the 1920s-1930s, Dada and Surrealism. Included are ensembles of works by Rouault, Derain, Dufy, Fautrier, de Chirico and Etienne-Martin. The display also includes rarely exhibited and little-known collections, such as Dr. Maurice Girardin’s African and Oceanian masks, the monumental compositions of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and the Art Deco collection, whose presentation has been renewed.
CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS
The contemporary exhibition is organized around three main themes:
– The avant-gardes of the 1960s. Artists participating in movements such as Nouveau Réalisme (César, Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Arman, Yves Klein…) or Fluxus (Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik…) or on the bangs of these, in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, blurred the boundaries between art and life, appropriated everyday objects, played with language and attached great importance to creative gesture and chance.
– The German art scene. From the 1960s onwards, it experienced a lively revival around a group of committed artists. Formed in the context of post-war Germany, they demonstrated a critical distance that targeted both socialist realism and Pop Art, then in full bloom (Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, A.R. Penck, Jörg Immendorff…).
– A selection of recent acquisitions. These allow us to explore the most current trends in young French and international creation (Damien Cabanes, Marc Desgrandchamps, Peter Doig, Mathieu Mercier, Philippe Parreno, Xavier Veilhan, Françoise Vergier, Charline von Heyl, Christopher Wool…).
Permanent collections at the Musée d’Art Moderne par mairiedeparis
The calendar of cultural activities can be found at www.mam.paris.fr under ACTION CULTURELLE.
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