Marisa Merz LaM Villeneuve-d’Ascq, May 3, 2024.
Marisa Merz Listening to space
Ascoltare lo spazio May 3 – September 22 LaM
Start and end dates and times (year – month – day – time):
Start: 2024-05-03T10:00:00+02:00 – 2024-05-03T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T10:00:00+02:00 – 2024-09-22T18:00:00+02:00
The LaM is devoting a major exhibition to the Italian artist Marisa Merz (1926-2019), the first retrospective in France in 30 years (Centre Pompidou, 1994), and the first exhibition in a French public institution in almost 15 years (CIAP de l ‘Island of Vassivière, 2010).
Celebrated in 2013 by receiving a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Marisa Merz is one of the major artists of the Italian and international art scene, close to the Arte Povera movement. Thanks to the complicity and commitment of the Fondazione Merz, the LaM will present a set of iconic works alongside previously unpublished pieces, as well as important research work carried out in the archives.
LaM 1 allée du Musée, VIlleneuve-d’Ascq Villeneuve-d’Ascq 59650 Nord Hauts-de-France +33 (0)3 20 19 68 68 http://www.musee-lam.fr By accepting the Masurel donation in 1979, Arthur Notebart, who was then President of the Urban Community of Lille, engaged the local authority in an adventure which was not until then within its remit. An association under the 1901 law was therefore created for the management of the modern art museum and its statutes made it possible to structure and organize the functioning of the Museum.
Pierre Chaigneau was then recruited as curator to put in place a program faithful to the deed of donation which specified the wishes of Geneviève and Jean Masurel. This program was to find its place in the building that the architect Roland Simounet was responsible for constructing in the new town of Villeneuve-d’Ascq.
The fruitful dialogues between donors, architect and curator allowed the opening, in 1983, of a museum perfectly combining the functions of conservation and dissemination thanks to permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, a sculpture park, an auditorium, a library, an educational and cultural service. Joëlle Pijaudier-Cabot succeeded Pierre Chaigneau in 1987 and held office until 2007.
During this period, an active acquisitions policy and a program of major exhibitions of modern and contemporary art raised the Museum to international recognition.
A new episode in the life of the MAM began when the art brut collection of L’Aracine was donated to the Museum in 1999, encouraging the Urban Community of Lille to expand the Museum in order to permanently present art brut to visitors. The Museum became that of modern art, contemporary art and outsider art.
In 2008, a new name was chosen, the LaM (Lille Métropole, museum of modern art, contemporary art and outsider art), announcing the reopening of the Museum in its new configuration. – by road: 20 min. from Lille Flandres station, Paris-Ghent motorway (A1/A22/N227), exit 5 or 6 Flers / Château / Museum of Modern Art. -Parking: -The reserved PMR parking spaces are located just before the Museum alley roundabout, opposite the museum entrance pavilion. -2 public car parks (unsupervised) are available: car park P7 (known as Des Moulins – maximum height: 1.80m). Parking P8 (maximum height: 1.80m), right next to the museum, but smaller.
