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REPORT – At the Parisian museum, the Antwerp artist works at the crossroads of French and Flemish schools, fourteen years after the late Cy Twombly. Encounter.
Luc Tuymans is hidden behind the screens which close access to the Valentin rotunda. The French painter of Caravagism (1591-1632) is just moved into the next room, while this space at the heart of the French painting collections, close to the Flemish schools, is about to become a hexagonal space for contemporary painting at the Louvre. For one year, but for one year only!
Since the inauguration of The Ceiling, by the late Cy Twombly, March 25, 2010, 400 m of blue sky animated by the movement of a few floating spheres, nothing as spectacular has been undertaken in contemporary matters in this royal palace as vast as a city. After work commissioned by the former president of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, who transformed the room of antique bronzes with its Art Deco whiteness into a Napoleon III salon, Twombly’s work became “the ceiling of discord”.
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