Here are 4 exhibitions selected by Radio Classique for the start of the year. Follow the advice of Guy Boyer, editorial director of Connaissance des arts, who appears in the morning every Friday at 8 a.m. and on weekends for his Chronique sorties, broadcast on Friday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 8 a.m.
Two exhibitions on Notre-Dame de Paris at the Cluny Museum
We only talk about that! While Notre-Dame has just reopened its doors, two exhibitions in homage to the Cathedral are being held at the Cluny museum, until March 16. The first, “Making the stones speak.” Medieval Sculptures of Notre-Dame”, focuses on the medieval sculpted decoration of Notre-Dame.
It renews knowledge of its collections, revealing the results of the important study and restoration program carried out since 2022. It also presents to the public for the first time around thirty fragments of the rood screen from the 1230s, discovered during excavations. carried out on the restoration site of the Cathedral.
Notre-Dame at the heart of two exhibitions
The second exhibition, “Following Notre-Dame”, is dedicated to the Notre-Dame library. Indeed, since 1756, the National Library of France has preserved the majority of the medieval manuscripts of Notre-Dame, some 300 manuscripts. Around forty pieces are presented at the exhibition, accompanied by illuminated sheets from the Cluny museum and external loans. Thanks to this exhibition, we can sense the richness of the intellectual, artistic and religious life of the cathedral during the Middle Ages.
Three Vietnamese artists at the Cernuschi Museum
At the Cernushi Museum, until March 9, the first major retrospective in France is on offer on the three pioneers of modern Vietnamese Art: Lê Phô (1907-2001), Mai-Thu (1906-1980) and Vu Cao Dam (1908-2000). The exhibition brings together 150 works by the three artists and traces their trajectories from their training at the Hanoi School of Fine Arts until the end of their long career led in France from 1937.
The three artists had in fact settled in France and had received numerous commissions, thanks to their elegant paintings. Mai-Thu, for example, settled in Mâcon, and created frescoes for one of the town’s chapels. An exhibition which sheds light on the beauties of modern Vietnamese art.
Raphaël Experience at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille
In Lille, the Palais des Beaux-Arts takes us into the world of Raphael, through the scientific presentation of 37 drawings by the artist, preparatory drawings for paintings or frescoes. This presentation is supplemented by prestigious loans granted by the Louvre Museum, the Royal Collection Trust and the National Gallery in London, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
-New technologies to make Raphaël’s work speak
The exhibition combines both classic and digital presentation, using new technologies to better communicate Raphael’s work, 5 centuries later. Thus, animated images make it possible to complete the missing pieces of work. Digital evocations also take us virtually into the Signature Room of the Vatican Palace, to discover the artist’s famous frescoes. The exhibition runs until February 17.
The sculptor Hans Josephsohn at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
Finally, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris is offering, until February 16, the first retrospective in France dedicated to the Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn, a little-known Swiss artist. Exhibited only in a few international galleries, few institutions own pieces by him.
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The artist’s work is interpreted here by the German painter Albert Oehlen, a major artist who contributed to the renewal of German painting in the 1980s, who offers a free exploration of it. An exhibition was also dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009. Through a display, in a chronological journey, Albert Oehlen questions Josephsohn’s creative process, in resonance with his own research, and thus delivers an artistic and living experience of the artist’s work.
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