From April 7 to December 31, 2013, Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault Foundation presents a monographic exhibition of the artist Rudolf Stingel. Through a mesmerising scenography, the artist shows about 30 paintings, most of them exhibited for the first time.

Victoire Birembaux / victoire@claudinecolin.com

At the end of his life, Monet wrote: "I owe everything to Boudin". For the first time since 1899, a Parisian institution is organising a retrospective exhibition of paintings, pastels and watercolours by this pioneer of Impressionism. This unique event is possible thanks to exceptional loans from the largest American museums (National Gallery in Washington, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, etc.).

L'atmosphère est silencieuse, pensive et solitaire. Le traitement de la couleur, le choix des modèles, des décors transportent dans une époque indéterminée entre les années 60 et la modernité. Dans ses vidéos comme dans ses photographies, une lenteur s’installe, on ressent la méthode et la réflexion d'un artiste qui regarde, qui pose le décor et la couleur comme un peintre.

Il offre ainsi une œuvre évolutive où les questions sociales, les tabous et conventions bourgeoises se glissent dans un univers ultra stylisé.

Press contact : Samya Ramdane - samya@claudinecolin.com 

Lens, Pas-de-Calais

The implantation in Lens (Pas-de-Calais) of one of the most famous museums in the world, demonstrates the Louvre’s strong commitment for the decentralization and democratization of culture. The Japanese agency SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizaw), winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize, museographer Adrien Gardère, landscape designer Catherine Mosbach designed the new Louvre-Lens. Designing a low structure, which is airy, fluid and accessible, the building is harmoniously integrated into the site without crushing it by its presence. Covering an area of 28,000 m2 (301,390 sq ft), the structure consists of five main glass and metal buildings, which opens out on an exceptional natural environment of 20 hectares. 

The museum will have two semi-permanent exhibition spaces: the Great Gallery and the Glass Pavilion. Within the Great Gallery, the Gallery of Time will present masterpieces from the Louvre collections in a chronological and transversal manner, reflecting the history of art from the 4th millennium BC to the middle of the 19th century. Among the highlights are Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1514-1515) by Raphael, Mary Magdalene with a Night Light (c. 1640–45) by Georges de La Tour. The Glass Pavilion, located after the Gallery of Time, will offer an additional exhibition space to welcome related thematic exhibitions.

The inaugural exhibition “Renaissance” will present in the Exhibitions Wing, major artworks of the greatest masters of the Renaissance (Raphael, Mantegna, Pisanello, Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach...)

The Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a retrospective, unprecented in Europe, of the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007).

Following the exceptional donation by Severin Wunderman of 1525 works of Jean Cocteau and his entourage, after three years of construction works, the Jean Cocteau Museum - Severin Wunderman Collection, a major cultural project led by the town of Menton, opens this autumn. The building will be created by the international architect, Rudy Ricciotti.

The museum will become the world's first and most important public resource for the work of Jean Cocteau.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

The Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute is a new private initiative with the following goals: to organize cultural events, to follow an acquisitions program and support for the production works of art by young artists. Its inaugural exhibition «L’Etoffe du Temps», will present works by conceptual and figurative artists, such as Darren Almond, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Claude Lévêque, Roman Opalka, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Luca Pancrazi, Pablo Picasso, Martial Raysse, Xavier Veilhan, Huang Yong Ping et Chen Zhen, which play around the notion of time in contemporary art, taking Picasso’s Femme Assise (1949) as a starting point.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

A NEW MUSEUM OF 20th AND 21st CENTURY OUTSIDER ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE

Reopening exhibition: The World as a Poem 

After over four years of renovation and extension work, the Museum of Modern Art of Lille Métropole (Villeneuve d’Ascq) will be reopening to the public on 25 September 2010 under a new name: the LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art). Its two fine architectural complexes, surrounded by a sculpture park (Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Eugène Dodeigne, etc.), will henceforth house three prestigious collections of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including a unique collection of Outsider Art.

Press opening: 21 September 2010

Anne Monéger-Laval / Letizia Calcamo / lam@claudinecolin.com