C’is an idea that is both modest and completely crazy, a project that is theoretically quite simple but, of course, ultra-complex to carry out. On September 19, 80 contemporary painters from the French scene will present one of their works, temporarily exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay, and will answer questions from the public all day long. It’s a bit like if Monet, Degas or Caillebotte themselves were engaging in conversation with the visitor, casually discussing their sources of inspiration, their working methods, their joys and difficulties as painters.
Of course, no one can predict today, among these 80 artists, which ones will have achieved, in 100 or 150 years, a posterity equivalent to that of the Impressionists. But all of them, whatever their generation, their style, their origins, from Nathanaëlle Herbelin to Hervé Di Rosa via Françoise Pétrovitch or François Boisrond, are already recognized, exhibited, and rated painters: a kind of dream team gathered in one place, in one day and ready, in the very heart of the Orsay collections, to freely discuss his work.
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Behind this crazy project? The painter Thomas-Lévy Lasne, who for three years has been conducting long live interviews on Twitch and on his brilliant YouTube channel Les apparences with the figures of this incredibly lively French artistic scene, yet long shunned by institutions and largely unknown to the general public. […] Read more
