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2001 - 2005, art shows throughout the world seen by ArtoftheDay
Between 2001 and 2005, ArtoftheDay published every day a calendar of art shows opening in museums throughout the world and in French speaking countries art galleries. Each notice, often illustrated, offers a short commentary and a link to the museum or gallery where the exhibition was taking place.
These thousands of notices are a precious source of information and reflect the art trends of the times. By clicking on their title you will get access to their contents.
- Diane Arbus, Revelations
- From february 29 to may 31 2004
- 200 photographs trace the itinerary of Diane Arbus, a leading photographer in the second half of the 20th century. Photos never seen before, the snapshots that marked generations of photographers, her personal archives and writings [...]
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- The Writing Art exhibit itself
- From february 29 to march 15 2004
- The collection "l'Art en écrit» (Writtten Art) by the Jannink editions groups together writings by contemporary authors. The library Artcurial organises a retrospective dedicated to sixty works published since the creation of this [...]
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- Robert Rauschenberg
- From february 29 to june 6 2004
- This first retrospective dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg in Italy brings together some 80 works. It allows us to follow his itinerary step by step from the 50s to our day and to find his taste for the variation of supports -painting, [...]
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- Stéphane Calais
- From february 28 to april 17 2004
- Through drawings, posters and three-dimensional works, the artist gives a fairy tale aspect to daily things, with humor and imagination. Influenced by design, comic strips and poster artists, Stephane Calais chose drawing under all its aspects [...]
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- Photographies by *René-Jacques
- From february 28 to may 23 2004
- Rene Jacques committed himself to make photography a major means of expression. Around the theme of the sea, two aspects of the artist's work are presented here with some forty amazing photographs: images from the movie Remorques by Jean [...]
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- Victorian visions
- From february 28 to april 18 2004
- A beautiful selection of seventy drawings, studies, sketches and watercolors by the main Victorian artists, among them Rossetti, Burne-Jones or William Morris. These works demonstrate the nostalgia for the past and the taste for exoticism [...]
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- Perugino, the divine painter. Paintings, drawings, documents
- From february 28 to september 5 2004
- Paintings and drwings chronologically evoke the training period, then the period of the Sistine Chapel and then the Florentine acitivity of one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance. A part is equally dedicated to the techniques [...]
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- Impacts
- From february 27 to may 29 2004
- This exhibition pays tribute to those who took part in the New Topography movemen, born in the 1970s and who developed a new approach to watching the earth. It hilights the relationhip between man and the environment and the way in which [...]
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- Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). A season in Hell.
- From february 27 to may 16 2004
- For the 150th birthday of the poet's birth outstanding documents are being shown, most of them for the first time : drawings, letters, poems, archives. These documents have made it possible to follow the literary and sentimental development [...]
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- Around symbolism
- From february 27 to may 16 2004
- Major works from the largest private and public Belgian and foreign collections have been put together in order to show various aspects of symbolist painting. Although the exhibit focuses on Symbolism, it also deals with the relationship [...]
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- Fabrizio *Plessi, Dreamworld
- From february 27 to may 31 2004
- The Fabrizio Plessi exhibition with 16 large-scale installations ,each one bearing the name of a large city such as Bombay, Cairo, Rome, Sarajevo or New York- is midway between dream and reality, the virtual and the tangible. La flotta [...]
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- The French Primitives. Discoveries and re-discoveries
- From february 27 to may 17 2004
- A hundred years after the exhibition organized on the same theme by the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Louvre offers a critical appraisal of French primitive artists focusing on masterpieces like l'Annonciation d'Aix or the Piétà d'Avignon [...]
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- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- From february 27 to june 6 2004
- This retrospective exhibit devoted to the most outstanding representative of the preraphaelite movement shows all the aspects of Rossetti's activity through 200 works-paintings, drawings, jewelry. Some of these works have never been [...]
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- Pierre-Marie *Brisson, the way of gestures
- From february 26 to may 2 2004
- Close to the technique of frescoes, Pierre-Marie Brisson's paintings are inspired by classic themes such as flowers, portraits or the representation of dancers, thus referring constantly to Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec or even Gauguin.
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- Pictures of the greek spirituality, icons of Rena *Andreadis' collection
- From february 26 to may 30 2004
- The exhibit groups together some thirty-five icons selected among the most emblematic of the Rena Andreadis collection. These religious represnetations painted on a gold background were carried out on the territory of today's Greece, [...]
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- Bertrand *Lamarche
- From february 26 to may 27 2004
- The artist puts into relation the model of a house in a cylinder form designed upon commission by the Abattoirs of Toulouse (slaughter house), with one of the rooms of teh Art Centre in Castres. He plays with the atmospheres and the construction [...]
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- New deposits of the National fund of contemporary art
- From february 26 to april 25 2004
- The museum will be storing some thirty works from the 60s to our day, among which works by Claude Lévêque, Jana Sterbak, Anri Sala or even Pierre Huygue.
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- These *Definitives dreamers
- From february 26 to july 4 2004
- A great number of surrealists were natives of Nantes.The exhibits brings together the works from collections from the museum and the Municipal Library, recently enriched by the objects of the André Breton auction.
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- Tino Sehgal, Kiss
- From february 26 to april 4 2004
- The non-typical and unclassifiable work of English artist Tino Sehgal questions the notions of artistic objects, museum and economy. The "human sculptures" of his pieces, here "Kiss", are done from actions by men and women, in particular [...]
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- Paul*Rebeyrolle: Clones.
- From february 26 to april 17 2004
- Paul Rebeyrolle is considered one of the greatest French contemporary painters. He works on series that have as a common theme man and his commitment in the world. In Clones, the artist adds materials to the canvas in order to give [...]
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- To danse with the death
- From february 26 to may 29 2004
- The theme of the macabre dance is first associated to churches and cemeteries, but as early of the XVth century it takes place in the pages of written docuements. Various manuscripts and books printed in Europe from the XVth to the XXth [...]
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- False & Genuine
- From february 26 to may 23 2004
- The works presneted offer the visitor to question the notions of false, copy, imitation, reproduction, pastiche, replica, authentic, original...and thus, through the bias of these different concepts, invites him to look at the work [...]
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- Immobilis, motionless body in the contemporary art
- From february 25 to march 27 2004
- Eight contemporary artists,among them Michel Journiac and Orlan, explore the notion of immobility in art and more specifically in corporal statuary. By confronting them with the molds kept at the museum, the works presented renew the corporal [...]
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- Tower-detours of Babel
- From february 25 to may 9 2004
- This event groups together thirteen monographic exhibits that question the relation to what is intimate with photographs by Thomas Ruff and paintings by Konrad Klapeck; relations to others with the architecture of Tatiana Trouvé; and finally, [...]
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- Elsa *Thiemann : Photographer. Bauhaus and Berlin
- From february 25 to june 6 2004
- The first retrospective dedicated to this photographer brings together over one hundred photographs, from the 30s to the 60s. We discover, among others, her portraits of artists as well as her cliches that show daily life in Berlin [...]
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- Moroccan ceramics : painter Claudio Bravo 's collection
- From february 24 to june 6 2004
- Ever since he settled down in Morocco in 1971, Chilean painter Claudio Bravo, exhibited in parallel by the IMA in Paris, has collected ceramics. Some fifty pieces offer a panorama of Moroccan ceramics since the XVIIth century which [...]
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- Drawings fo the Renaissance
- From february 24 to april 4 2004
- Over one hundred works of art by forty European artists, from the end of the XVth century to the XVIIth century, span over two centuries of graphic art inside four essential movements: the school of the North, the Italian School, teh French [...]
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- Vincent *Lévy, The panel of the passing time
- From february 24 to march 27 2004
- A large panel made of screens films the visitors in real time, or shows the images an hour, one day, one month later...While data processing today is used to go faster, the Panel of time that passes uses this speed to slow down time [...]
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- Pascal Lainé, The flesh portrait
- From february 23 to march 13 2004
- Pascal Lainé, a well-known writer, exhibits for the first time as a photographer. His subject is the body that unveils itself, the nude that becomes an object of the spirit, of the imagination.
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- Yin *Qi, Zeng Hao and Première
- From february 22 to may 23 2004
- The exhibit brings together first of all the works of two contemporary Chinese painters, both deeply marked by their culture and the contemporary reality.In a second part Première groups together the works of the latest graduates from [...]
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- The world belongs to us, looks on the toung generation
- From february 21 to april 10 2004
- A manifest of vitality and diversity of the young creation in Upper-Normandy, the exhibit is the third phase of a work of prospection which the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Regional fund for contemporary art) has been pursuing [...]
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- To rascal, half a rascal, to play truant
- From february 21 to june 6 2004
- The Lambert Collection opens its doors, transformed in a village party with a canopy and a greasy pole, and gives children the place of honor : Louise Bourgeois sings children's songs, Nan Goldin shares his child's universe with us, as well [...]
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- Juliao Sarmento, Echo
- From february 21 to may 23 2004
- présentées dans différentes salles comme autant de chapitres d'un récit illustrant la réflexion de l'artiste sur la condition humaine, l'amour, le désir, la mort, se font echo à travers le temps.
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- Urs *Lüthi, all that lasts of the light II
- From february 21 to march 20 2004
- This Swiss artist contineus his work around the selfportrait, but with time the image he chose to give of himself has evolved. He no longer shows an androgyne being but rather an ordinary man , a man seized by his daily actions and who seeks [...]
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- Denis *Godefroy, original drawings
- From february 21 to may 22 2004
- During the retrospective dedicated to the artist in the Museum of the Evêché, the Maison des Arts will give a glance of his graphic art, with an ensemble not seen till now of large format colored drawings.
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- Denis *Godefroy, «Minoirs, squares, intentions»
- From february 21 to may 20 2004
- This retrospective, taht brings together some fifty works, illustrates three aspects of his work. The "Mirrors", a series of 15 paintings revisit the landscape genre; the "destinies",photographs and drawings of landscapes, and finally [...]
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- Unglee : Don't sleep
- From february 20 to march 14 2004
- Revealed in particular at the end of the 70s for his experimental movies,and then having dedicated himself to photography, Unglee will be back to image in movement, witha series of videos on the theme of the declaration of love: a sour [...]
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- Christoph Weber, Stagnation
- From february 20 to march 13 2004
- For his first personal exhibit, the Austrian artist presents his "carbon drawings" -contours in 3 dimensions, his mural drawings -lines cut into the wall, and his sculptures, creations based on the concept of Kunstlerisches Handeln [...]
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- Reliquaries of wastelands
- From february 20 to march 14 2004
- For the Festival of the Imagination at the Maisons des Cultures du Monde, the museum hosts a collection of Brazilian works of art startingwith recuperated and recycled materials.
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- Michel Journiac
- From february 20 to may 9 2004
- Ten years after his departure, the first retrospective dedicated to the varied and moving work of Michel Journiac. The beginner of corporal art and sociologic art in general, this polymorphic artist criticises and copies all of human [...]
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- Bernie Miller, «Collisions Monuments etcetera»
- From february 20 to april 17 2004
- Three sculptures done in 2003 and shown for the first time,Moth effect, Instant Paintig and Rediscovered Furlong, illustrate the Canadian artist's thoughts on the consumer society. Drawings of the projects of the public monuments [...]
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- The Moma in Berlin
- From february 20 to september 19 2004
- Cézanne, Modigliani, Duchamp, Matisse, Chagall, Balthus, Hopper, Warhol, O'Keefe... are all part of this exceptional exhibit that offers, for the first time in Europe, the opportunity to see over 200 works of art from the famous Moma [...]
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- Paris-Prague by *Sladek
- From february 20 to april 24 2004
- The poetic universe of cafes and bistrots as seen by Antonin Sladek: Paris or Prague?...it is for us to guess...
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- Munch, drawings
- From february 19 to may 16 2004
- Some one hundred drawings allow us to discover an unknown side of the artist's. Sketches, preparatory studies, independant works, done in various techniques, illustrate the artist's favorite themes: death, illness, love, the family...
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- Max *Neumann, recent works
- From february 19 to may 16 2004
- This first exhibit of the artist in a Belgian museum allows us to discover his recent works. Though practising figurative art, Neumann does not worry about his subject, and prefers to find a balance between form, color and figure.
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- Behind the facts
- From february 19 to may 2 2004
- The one hundred works done between 1966 and 1975 by 39 artists, illustrate the change that took place over the last few years in the world of art: abolition of the limits between the different disciplines, and new means of expression. [...]
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- Monsieur Hulot's City, Jacques Tati's eye for the Modern
- From february 19 to may 2 2004
- Through photographs and excerpts from movies by Jacques Tati, as well as drawings and models, we discover the movie directror's talent and his passion for the architecure of his time. Villa Arpel in the movie My uncle, reproduced in a model, [...]
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- Chalk linesphotographies by Stanley *Greene
- From february 18 to march 14 2004
- The projection of Stanley Green's 200 photographs denounce the current situation in Russia.In the month-long exhibit of Human Rights organized by Amnesty International in Toulouse, he gives an account of a situation he judges alarming [...]
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- Paradise now? Contemporary art from the Pacific
- From february 18 to may 9 2004
- For the first time in the USA some 45 works by 15 of the greatest contemporary artists from the Pacific Islands are brought together. These territories, associatd since their discovery to the idea of Paradise, are described from another [...]
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- Christophe Roger, photograms
- From february 18 to march 2 2004
- The galery presents a series of photograms in color taken by Christopher Roger, the former student of the School of Decorative Arts, from which he graduated in 2003 and who is today professor of graphism at the Sorbonne.
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- Alvaro *Siza, architect «projects 1961-1999»
- From february 18 to april 18 2004
- In 1974, Alvaro Siza imposes himself inn the Portuguese and then international architectural community by offering a type of architecture that finds its place between modernity and tradition. The exhibit looks at 40 years of creation [...]
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- Bruno *Perramant, paintings
- From february 18 to may 2 2004
- After the FRAC Auvergne a second polyptyc of the artist's is exhibited here called "The rivers", formed by four views of rivers and five movie generics. The river, presented as a sensual and metaphysical axis, takes the shape of a dragon, [...]
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- Some photographers for the Emperor : Napoleon III's albums
- From february 18 to may 16 2004
- Napoleon III's reign corresponds to the development of commercial and artistic photography. This sovereign understood all its promising future and different applications: documents, archives, political propaganda, industry development [...]
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- Endre *Bàlint (1914-1986) in Paris
- From february 18 to march 15 2004
- The exhibit allow
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- Sand
- From february 17 to august 15 2004
- An invitation to discover sand, under all its forms and with all our senses, organized in three parts: the world of natural sciences, the world of the imagination and the world of societies that inhabit this environment and mold it. (In partnership [...]
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- Window onto Spain: drawings and prints from Ribera to Goya
- From february 17 to may 16 2004
- Over 25 drawings and prints evoke three centuries of graphic Spanish art, from the Renaissance to the XIXth century, reflecting the foreign influences and the different techniques used,in particular in Valencia, Madrid and Andaluzia. [...]
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- Luis *Meléndez: still lives
- From february 17 to may 16 2004
- Some 70 paintings and objects, of which most are presented for the first time in Spain, allow us to rediscover this artist, a student of Louis-Michel van Loo, and considered as the most important Spanish painting of still lives of the XVIIIth [...]
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- Leila Beydoun Chalabi
- From february 16 to 29 2004
- This Lebanese artist's floral painting is filled with emotion, and appeals to the senses to capture his messages delivered by these flowers. Playing with textures and materials,she attracts and seduces the spectator through the dynamism [...]
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- Family likeness
- From february 15 to april 25 2004
- Photographs from the end of the XXth century that reflect the evolution of the family,its modes of functioning and its modes of representation. It is the staging of a revolution in customs through traditional images: portraits, family [...]
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- Objects desire
- From february 15 to july 4 2004
- On the theme of a collection made by an imaginary collector, 150 vases by contemporary designers -such as Pierre Charpin, Jasper Morrison, Nestor Perkal, Frédéric Ruyant, TSE&TSE associated, Marcel Wanders -have been reunited in a scenography [...]
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- Manet and the Sea
- From february 15 to may 31 2004
- The exhibit looks at the work of Manet through a theme that is not well-known, the sea and the beach. To the 35 paintings signed by the artist, we add the paintings of the first Dutch masters in this genre,and contemporaries of the painter [...]
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- Villas-Spectacles, Rudy Ricciotti / architect
- From february 15 to april 12 2004
- The Stadium of Vitrolles and the Villa L. in Toulon, two emblematic works by Rudy Ricciotti, are at the origin of this exhibit dedicated to the universe of villas and show rooms. For the first time, the works of Ricciotti are shown [...]
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- Georg *Baselitz, monumental watercolors
- From february 14 to april 30 2004
- The exhibit is concentrated on thirty, large format watercolors done in 2002 in which icons of Soviet socialist realism were staged, as well as the artist himself and his wife.
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- Kim Sooja, Conditions of Humanity
- From february 14 to may 23 2004
- With installations made with cloth and traditional Korean materials, as well as videos, the artist presents for the first time a retrospective of his works in Germany.Through his works, Kim Sooja stigmatised the life of man in a globalized [...]
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- Andy Warhol : the late work
- From february 14 to may 31 2004
- Warhol's latter works, 100 paintings, photos, videos, films, that unveil the artist's creative richness. A free movement, a texture that was worked, deep colors...Little by little, painting became a meditation.
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- Im *Obersteg collection: Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky, Soutine
- From february 14 to may 2 2004
- Karl Im Obersteg (1883-1969) the entrepreneur from Basel and art amateur, and his son Jürg (1914-1983) collected over 70 years major works of art of the XXth century. The arrival of this collection to the museum of Basel is the opportunity [...]
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- The mark of Rome : *Samarobriva and the towns in the north of the Gaul
- From february 14 to august 29 2004
- The old town of Amiens, in comparison to other cities like Arras, Bavay, Beauvais, Cassel, Metz, Reims... then Tongres in Belgium and Trève in Germany, is presented with the help of models of towns, public buildings, archeologic sites [...]
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- Painters of reality. The legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy.
- From february 14 to may 2 2004
- More than 110 works are grouped together to show how Caravaggio, considered the element to have triggerd off the naturalist movement in Europe, actually entered a Lombard tradition of deep interest in observing reality. A tradition [...]
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- Saint-John Perse and the China
- From february 13 to may 7 2004
- During the year of China in France, the Foundation unveils different objects, paintings, letters and manuscripts that show the numerous changes Alexis Leger with China. His poems, published under the pseudonym of Saint-John Perse, [...]
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- Marie de *Régnier, Muse and poet of the Belle Epoque
- From february 13 to may 23 2004
- The 200 pieces shown -manuscripts, photographs, paintings and books -pay an homage to Marie de Régnier, the daughter of poet José-Maria de Heredia, who was both muse, writer and a femme fatale in the Belle Epoque.
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- A shared passion: choosen masterpieces from the Ordonez Falcon Collection.
- From february 13 to april 18 2004
- As an aforetaste of the future museum of photography of San Sebastian, some one hundred works are presented here from one of the most important private collections in Europe and taken by the greatest photographers -Man Ray, Cartier-Bresson [...]
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- Retrospective Bettina *Rheims
- From february 13 to may 2 2004
- In collaboration with the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris, the Helsinki City Art Museum allows us to discover the work of French photographer Bettina Rheims through 133 works, since her first works of striptease artists to the portraits [...]
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- Vélazquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano, The courts of Baroque
- From february 13 to may 2 2004
- 170 works illustrate baroque art, present in all the courts of Europe in the XVIIth century and explicit the development and spreading of this artistic language, favored by the travelling of artists, the taste for collecting and diplomacy.
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- Daniel Pflumm
- From february 12 to march 18 2004
- Daniel Pflum, a major figure of the scene in Berlin, gets his inspiration from packaging as well as from minimal art, and explores the world of corporations and that of the media, as well as their aesthetics.
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- Playlist, with S.Afif, C.Bove, Cercle Ramo Nash, Clegg&Gutman, S. Durant, A.Ruppersberg, and many others.
- From february 12 to april 25 2004
- Far from illustrating a theme, "Playlist" is a variation around a work principle: cultural navigation. These artists connect between themselves films, works of art, books, and abolish the opposition between creation/copy, as if contemporary [...]
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- Delirious writings
- From february 12 to september 5 2004
- Language is at the center of this exhibit. But, far from conventional syntax and spelling, this deals with destructured language one finds in writings or drawings, paintings or embroideries.
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- Brilliant
- From february 12 to april 25 2004
- For its first exhibit on contemporary lighting, the V&A presents, around two themes, domestic objects and installations, works by artists and designers such as Ron Arad, Georg Baldele, Arik Levy, Tom Dixon and Karim Rashid. An installation, [...]
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- Douglas Gordon
- From february 12 to may 9 2004
- This retrospective dedicated to the Scottish artist offers a wide range of his works, video installations, texts, photographs...as well as recent works such as "Played Dead, Real Time".
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- Pre-Raphaelite vision : Thruth to Nature
- From february 12 to may 3 2004
- The 150 works exhibited underline the impact of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on landscape painting in the 1850s, strangely marked by minute realism.This concern for what is true is seen in particular in works by William Holman Hunt, [...]
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- Dia *Azzawi, recent paintings
- From february 11 to march 6 2004
- Following Picasso's and Matisse's example, Dia Azzawi integrates various cultures and sources of inspiration, thus creating a universal work. Through his paintings with existential echos tinted with optimism, the renaissance of Arab [...]
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- Rome 1850, the artists photographs Ring of the Greco Caffè
- From february 11 to april 18 2004
- The exhibit pays tribute to the first photographic processes adapted to the light of Rome by a group of photograph artists -Frédéric Flachéron, Eugène Constant, Alfred-Nicolas Normand, Giacomo Caneva and James Anderson -, and ends [...]
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- El Greco
- From february 11 to may 23 2004
- Following the exhibit in New York, this is the European stop for this retrospective dedicated to the Greco with some 80 works of art. From icons painted in his native Crete to the last works done in Toledo, including the years of training [...]
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- Jean-Pierre *Vitrac : The Cross of Traffoux
- From february 10 to april 10 2004
- The last public dump survives in a town in Bourgogne. A selection of photographs taken on the spot reveal the reality of our society.
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- Robert *Groborne :engravings
- From february 10 to march 21 2004
- Through some 130 prints and illustrated books, and the creation of a personal language -"purely graphic writing" as he described it himself -Robert Grovone writes his biography. Each print is added to the first ones to form the pages [...]
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- History paintings. They make stories!
- From february 10 to may 23 2004
- Attributed to Jacques Courtois known as le Bourguignon, Battke Scene, XVIIe century, detail. © Jean Claude Culas, Musées de Mâcon.
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- Fashioning the modern woman : The art of the Couturière, 1919-1939
- From february 10 to april 10 2004
- A parade of some one hundred haute-couture creations by Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli Augusta Bernard, Louise Boulanger, the Callot sisters, Alix Grès, Jeanne Lanvin...
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- Denise Aubertin
- From february 9 to april 17 2004
- Through four works, the artist detours works from their first destination: publishing and distribution. The Livre cuit is made of a book, integrated in a culinary recipe, thus acquiring a unique character. The 3 Unpublishable Journals [...]
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- Guy *Brunet make his film
- From february 8 to march 6 2004
- The first solo exhibit in Paris for Guy Brunet who tells and paints endlessly the epic of cinema from the 30s tothe 60s. Next to this writing work, he paints with glycerol reinterpretations of movie posters, unique images where figurative [...]
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- Francis *Bacon and the tradition of art
- From february 8 to june 20 2004
- The exhibit studies the relation between the British painter and classic paintings, the source of inspiration he transformed until metamorphosing them. In parallel with some forty works of his, paintings from Titian to Soutine are presented, [...]
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- From House to Home : Picturing Domesticity
- From february 8 to may 3 2004
- Some thirty works on different supports -paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs-by contemporary artists such as Kevin Appel, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, and Joel Shapiro try to explore the multiple sides of daily and family life.
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- Medium Medien
- From february 8 to may 2 2004
- The exhibit is a way of thinking of the role the media play in art today. 19 German artists, among them Ute Hörner, Erik Land or Thomas Schulz explore various media through their work of the last 10 years: video, film, photography, [...]
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- Multiimages 2
- From february 7 to april 25 2004
- This second part of a project called "Multiimages" is dedicated to graphic design. The exhibit, dedicated to Geneviève Gauckler and to the Pleix collective group, offers us a vision of this contemporary and multidisciplinary art.
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- The body in performance
- From february 7 to march 21 2004
- This continuation of the exhibit of photographs dedicated to the staging og the body is an opportunity to discover the works of 14 artists, among them Eva Rubinstein, William Klein, Thérèse Le Prat ou Vasco Ascolini.
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- My history
- From february 7 to april 18 2004
- These thirty works by P. Genty evoke the history, both idividual and collective, of the mines in teh Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. These works ar presented as diptych: color photos, portraits of women and men, next to photos in black [...]
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- Vis vitalis : Fish still lifes by dutch and flemish masters 1550-1700
- From february 7 to may 9 2004
- At the beginning of the XVIIth century sea still lives developed as an autonomous genre. The paintings by some sixty painters, as varied in their composition and execution as works by Clara Peeters and Abraham van Beijeren, show the wealth [...]
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- Bernard *Lorjou : Briskly
- From february 7 to june 13 2004
- Far from any type of conformity, Lorjou's paintings with violent colors demand both a universal and yet transgressive range. He goes forward with gigantic formats, destroys sensibility and prefers brusk contrasts, he seems to call [...]
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- Works from the Boros Collection.
- From february 7 to may 9 2004
- More than 200 works by 31 artists from Christian Bros' private collection, most of them never seen before, illustrate the main tendencies in British and German contemporary art in the 1990s.All the media and supports have their representatives, [...]
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- Jongkind, pioneer of the Impressionism
- From february 7 to march 9 2004
- Through some one hundred oils on canvas, watercolors, prints and sketches, this retrospective allows for Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) to be rehabilitated. His influence was decisive on the French Impressionsts, [...]
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- Ukiyoe, the changing world
- From february 7 to may 30 2004
- Over 500 works (paintings, illustrated books...) distributed into 6 sections -theater, tradition, nature, landscapes, life in the city and feminine beauty -illustrate the deep changes of Japanese society in Tokyo between the XVIIth [...]
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- Song *Chao, Miners
- From february 6 to march 27 2004
- During the year of China, portraits in black and white of miners photographed by the young Chinese artist Song Chao, he himself a miner.These works represent autobiographic details as well as a social critic of workers'condition.
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- Boccioni's Materia : A futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris
- From february 6 to may 9 2004
- Around the work Materia done in 1912, and through other paintings and sculptures by Umberto Boccioni as well as of some of his contemporaries, the exhibit looks into the part played by Italian futurism in the history of modernity.
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- Piel fria / Cool skin. Contemporary art in Guadalajara.
- From february 6 to april 17 2004
- This exhibit brings together 15 artists that illustrate the contemporary artistic production of Guadalajara. Far from the traditional circuits, they produce an ar that represent the conditons of creating in the midst of society, an art form [...]
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- Loud & Clear
- From february 5 to march 7 2004
- The new project of the Bifrons Foundation in Amsterdam, Loud & Clera is the result of the collaboration between contemporary composers, visual artists and artistic directors from advertising agencies. This interdisciplinarity offers [...]
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- Slopes (acts 1 to 20), Victoria Klotz exhibition
- From february 5 to march 30 2004
- Victoria Klotz has been exploring the notion of territory for many years now. With recorded texts and a video film she tries here to describe the idea of moving in space, by inviting us to a sensible and contemplative approach of art work.
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- I envisage you. Part I
- From february 5 to march 28 2004
- The works by some one hundred contemporary photographers illustrate the changes in a face and fall of the traditional portrait, the main themes of the exhibit. In this first part, 3 sections show first of all the face in a realistic [...]
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- Stalker
- From february 5 to may 5 2004
- Stalker is a collective of artists, architects, town planers who make up a laboratory of urban art to reflect on the urban fabric of our towns. This exhibit allows them among other things to report on the new cartography they have [...]
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- Point and engraving
- From february 5 to 28 2004
- Recent works by contemporary artists : Laurent Schkolnyk, Antonini, Balkanyi, Ballif, Bazire, C. Breton, Capdeboscq, Darmon, Eisenzopf, M. Flashner, Hallez, J. Houplain, Joffrion, Kilar, Marage, Martin-Bontoux, Martine, Mathieu-Marie, [...]
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- Cecil Beaton : portraits
- From february 5 to may 31 2004
- Over 100 portraits that cover the five decades of the artist's career. One goes from works that have reached the status of icons to others that have never been exhibited. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Beaton captured all the fashion, [...]
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- Donald Judd
- From february 5 to april 25 2004
- Donald Judd, who belongs to the minimalist school, founded his art on the abstract form and industrial material. From a series of paintings to sculptures in plexiglass, including crafts pieces, one discovers chronologically a unique [...]
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- Viral Counter Attack, Joseph Nechvatal & Music2eye
- From february 5 to march 28 2004
- Through an interactive multimedia exhibit, painer Joseph Nechvatal and the artistic colletive group Music2eye invites us to explore the data processing viruses, while doing real art works, such as these video-projected paintings that [...]
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- Danish contemporary ceramics
- From february 4 to march 14 2004
- Denmark presents a true fluctuation of borders between art and crafts. Thirty well-known artists follow the solid tradition of ceramics, while drawing their inspiration from the technical and artistic diversity of the rest of the world. [...]
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- Crystal Palace at Sydenham
- From february 4 to april 11 2004
- For the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Crystal Palace -that disappeared in the fire of 1936-the exhibit offers an imaginary visit of the palace and its garden through contemporary paintings, photographs and prints.
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- Tanagra, myth and archeology
- From february 4 to may 23 2004
- Following the exhibit in Paqris, two hundred works -statues, ceramics, paintings - study the theme of the mythic and archeologic Tanagra, and its repercussions on the Hellenistic world -Egypt, Cyrenaic, Asia Minor, Pont-Euxin and Great [...]
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- Jean-Philippe *Roubaud, shown rooms or «the support and the great surface»
- From february 4 to march 20 2004
- The artist's works, spread out over four spaces decorated with wall paper, conceived as settings, give a certainimage of our current times. The first decor welcomes "Fonds d'écran" (screen background); the second is set up as an exhibit [...]
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- Blasting the future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920
- From february 4 to april 18 2004
- Some fifty works by Vyndham Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Helen Saunders, Jacob Kramer... and C.R.W. Navinson, the only English futurist artist. They are all proof [...]
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- Chu *Teh-Chun, recent paintings
- From february 4 to march 6 2004
- As part of the Year of China in France, the galery presents the Chinese painter's recent works. Inspired from the Western and Eastern cultures, these colored canvases are formed by spontaneous and free movements, and suggest nature [...]
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- Density +/- 0
- From february 3 to april 11 2004
- These contemporary works offer a formal simplicity which paradoxically increases their conceptual and emotional meaning. They thus correspond to the process begun in the 1960s accoring to which the art objects were dematerialized.
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- Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Happy Victims
- From february 3 to march 13 2004
- An artist of many aspects, journalist, editor, designer...Tsuzuki conceives creativity as the manifest of his life. In the midst of this exhibit we find protographs on the original theme of fashion victims, of an obsessional and fetichist [...]
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- Charles *Cordier (1827-1905), sculptor the other and the somewhere else
- From february 3 to may 2 2004
- This first retrospective dedicated to the personality and career of sculptor Charles Cordier articulated around six chronologic and themed parts, illustrated by some one hundred works: the reunion of 1848 and the abolition of slavery, [...]
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- The scientific *gardens
- From february 3 to may 3 2004
- In answer to the exhibit at the Trianon at Bagatelle on pleasure gardens, this demonstration, presented at the Galery of mineralogy andgeology, is interested in the medical and botanic gardens founded in Paris as of the Middle Ages. [...]
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- Rouart, a parisian family of impressionnism
- From february 3 to june 13 2004
- In the heart of the pictural revolution at the end of the XIXthe century, Henri Rouart was an enlightened collector as well as a painter.Among a significative choice of works that belonged to him (Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir...), [...]
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- State of play
- From february 3 to march 28 2004
- The artists represented, characterized by their spontaneity, their improvisation and their capacity of invention, exhibit their works, especially conceived for this exhibit, using humour and irony with little means.This group is made [...]
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- The *forest seen from above all of red dressed
- From february 2 to 21 2004
- Since the 60s, the National Forest Inventory carries out infrared, aerial photographs of French mountain areas. Usually used as a tool to manage forests, these snapshots appear here as true artistic pieces in their own right.
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- Lovis *Corinth : 300 drawings from the Von der Heydt Museum's collection.
- From february 1 to march 14 2004
- By grouping together 300 drawings by the artist, the exhibit enhances the graphic productin of this painter who was at the crossroads of the artistic currents of the end of the XIXth century and the beginning of the XXth. The intimate [...]
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- The *dainy owner's ass, Flavien de Marigny dit Mambo
- From february 1 to 28 2004
- The author of various frescoes, Mambo paints the caricatures of characters who have left their imprint on the century.He prefers the weapons of humor and finess to those of sour irony and subversion. The artist offers us different [...]
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- Textile lighthouse
- From february 1 to june 30 2004
- Artists and manufacturers producing new textiles -like the lighting materials, inflatable or communicating -get together in this exhibit, that associates the Museum of Art and Industry and the National School of Textile Sciences, Arts [...]
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- Napoleon's legend through the Epinal's picture
- From february 1 to june 30 2004
- «Imperial Napoleon », «Napoleon the martyr», or at the command of hsis troops on a battle fierld...Objects, prints and paintings make up the panorama of a cult around Bonaparte.
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