Proximity and evidence make us blind: France is unaware of the inventiveness, the diversity and the current creative agitation of some of our closest neighbours. ABC is an exhibition that does not claim to be a comprehensive portrayal of the diversity of the contemporary scene in Belgium. The disciplines most particularly taught and practiced at Le Fresnoy have formed the criteria of priority for selection purposes: photography, film, video, installation, performance and choreography..

About forty artists will be shown like : Stephan BALLEUX, Orla BARRY, Pierre BISMUTH, Jef CORNELIS, Wim DELVOYE, Jan FABRE, Johan GRIMONPREZ, Anne Veronica JANSSENS, Gwendoline ROBIN, Sophie WHETTNALL…

Press opening: 7 October 2010

Katia Lhammi / katia@claudinecolin.com

This fall, as part of the France-Russia Year 2010, the musée de l’Armée (Army Museum) in Paris and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are jointly presenting an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Russian Imperial Guard, and more broadly to the history of Russia through over 150 objects of exceptional and sumptuous characteristics.

Press opening: 7 October 2010 at 9:00 am

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

This fall 2010, the Jacquemart-André Museum brings together two major figures of occidental painting: Pierre-Paul Rubens, uncontested master of Flemish Baroque painting, and Nicolas Poussin, leading figure of the French Classical School. This exhibition will provide the opportunity for a fascinating confrontation, which will highlight the considerable influence Flemish and French artists had on each other during the first half of the 17^th century.

Press opening: 23 September 2010 at 9:30 am

Christelle Maureau / christelle@claudinecolin.com

Du 27 juin au 31 octobre 2010, la Fondation Maeght présente une rétrospective exceptionnelle de l’oeuvre d’Alberto Giacometti.

Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966, réunira à la fois les chefs-d’oeuvres les plus connus de l’artiste, parmi lesquelsles bronzes : L’Homme qui marche, Le Chien, Le Chat. Seront

également exposés des peintures, des plâtres et des dessins, prêtés par de grands musées nationaux et internationaux ou par des collections privées.

The Maison Jean Cocteau is an important expression of the artist’s tastes and private life, now offering the public, after five years of preparation, a perfect reconstitution of the bedroom, office, and main sitting room, which notably contains a masterly canvas by Christian Bérard. The renovations, led by architect François Magendie and the team of Dominique Païni-Nathalie Crinière (who organised the Jean Cocteau exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in 2003), also allow for the display of a selection of drawings from the Cocteau estate, which includes, in addition to the best of Cocteau, works by Picasso, Warhol, Modigliani, Buffet, Blanche, Man Ray...

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

The Frac Aquitaine and the Bordeaux musée des beaux-arts cross their views of their collections to mark the acquisition of new works by the Frac Aquitaine in 2009. They propose to shed new light on a selection of their works: old works viewed in the light of the present, and contemporary works seen as a reflection of the past. The complete collection of Frac Aquitaine’s 17 new acquisitions will be presented for the first time in contrast with 19 works from the musée des beaux-arts collection from different schools (French, Flemish, Italian, English) and different periods (from the 17th to the 20th century).