Christelle MAUREAU /  christelle@claudinecolin.com

Tamara MARIE / tamara@claudinecolin.com

STILL UNDERGOING TRANSFORMATION, the MONNAIE DE PARIS will open an evening event space to the public with 80 artists from the international scene

For the «Nuit des Musées» (Museum Night), 19th May 2012, the Monnaie de Paris invites Rob Pruitt to take over the Cour de la Méridienne (Méridienne Courtyard) – a space not yet affected by the restructuring works – with his famous Flea Market.

An unmissable event: Saturday 19 May from 6pm to Midnight Salle Dupré of the Monnaie de Paris

Shanghai! is an invitation to discover the “City on the Sea” (meaning in Mandarin of Shanghai), an imaginary voyage in the Middle Kingdom through the critical or fantasised vision of artists, on the route of the West and the modernity of the East…

Eva Astaburuaga Dalla Venezia – eva@claudinecolin.com 

For the first time, an exhibition will be devoted to the best masterpieces from Pharaonic Egypt during the ten centuries between the start of the Third Intermediate Period and the end of the Ptolomaic period (1070-30 BC). It will shed new light on this period by revealing its tormented history, with one crisis or invasion following another.

Christelle MAUREAU / christelle@claudinecolin.com

For the first time in history, the Chateau de Fontainebleau will exceptionally loan 170 works of arts, furniture and objects evoking the life of Napoléon III and Eugénie and their living space at Fontainebleau, highlighting the eclectic character of late XIXth century style, still underappreciated today. Many of these works, never before seen by the public, will be restored for the occasion and displayed at Fontainebleau following the Bordeaux exhibition.

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com

We know Rodin the sculptor, but do we know Rodin the draftman? This exhibition presents a spectacular collection of 300 drawings of his last thirty years when drawing was the artist’s predominant form of expression. This late period of Rodin’s career demonstrates the extraordinary tension between the naturalism of a drawing, capturing a gesture, a movement in all its immediacy, and the increasing independence of line and color in the artist’s work. Rodin’s freedom in drawing contributed to opening an immense space for the artists of the 20th century.

In conjunction with the exhibition Capturing the model. Rodin 300 drawings 1890-1917, to be held at the Musée Rodin between November 18th 2011, and February 26th 2012, a selection of about thirty drawings by Paul-Armand Gette will be presented on the first floor of the Hôtel Biron.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

The Centre Pompidou mobile is the first moving museum in the world. Its ambition is to present works from its world-renowned collection of masterpieces (Picasso, Calder, Matisse, Léger…) and make of modern and contemporary art accessible to a very large audience. Designed by the architect Patrick Bouchain, the Centre Pompidou mobile (650m²) will be inaugurated in October 2011 in Chaumont (Haute-Marne), followed by later stops in Cambrai and Boulogne-sur-Mer (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) in 2012.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

This is the first homage exhibition hosted by a Parisian museum dedicated to Fra Angelico, one of the undisputed masters of sacred art. The exhibition brings together nearly 60 works from major international institutions, tracing the career of this major figure from the first Florentine Renaissance alongside other important artists from the Italian Primitive School. Some of them, including Ghiberti, Monaco and Masaccio, had a significant influence on the art of Fra Angelico, while others, such as Gozzoli and Lippi, drew their inspiration from his work.

Christelle Maureau / christelle@claudinecolin.com

The first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist Jacques Gruber is presented at the Galeries Poirel in Nancy, France. Dating from the 1890 years until the First World War, nearly 150 drawings, paintings, furniture, posters and stained glass from famous international museums (musée d’Orsay and musée des arts décoratifs in Paris, the Royal museums of Brussels, the Virginia museum of Fine Arts ) and prestigious private and public collections, are exhibited.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com