Sep 25

From 16 october 2008 to 22 february 2009
A new major exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg from October 2008.
The Berardo collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary art in Europe, will be showing in Paris for four months (16 October – 22 February).
More than seventy items from this collection of 862 works will be on show at the Musée du Luxembourg and will be presented around four themes: surrealism (Miró, Dali, Ernst, Breton…), abstraction from 1910 to the immediate post-war (Mondrian, Tanguy, Arp…), the confrontation Europe-US of the 1960s with new realism and Pop Art (Warhol, Klein, Soulages, Mitchell…) and creation post-1970 (Schnabel, Stella…).

Don’t miss this exhibition with works from the Lisbon museum of modern art, which like the collection bears the name of the wealthy Portuguese entrepreneur José Berardo.

Practical information

MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG
19, rue de Vaugirard
75006 PARIS
Metro : Rennes Saint Sulpice
RER : Luxembourg
Bus : 58, 84, 89
Telephone number : 0145441290
www.museeduluxembourg.fr

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Sep 3

A new Vigour permeated the Decorative Arts during Napoleon’s Reign. Furniture and objects were embellished with simple, forceful Imagery drawn from classical Mythology, whose role far surpassed the Merely decorative. By focussing specifically on the meaning of Ornaments during the Empire, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is challenging our traditional idea of Napoleonic Symbols, often reduced in the collective Imagination to Emblems of political power. The exhibition invites us to take a fresh Look at imagery which, from the Eagle, Butterfly, Laurel Leaf, Floral crown and Bee to the Beautiful young man, Sphinx, Swan, Apollo and Psyche, reveal that other Facet of Power: Seduction. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs’particularly rich Collection combined with prestigious Pieces from other major French Collections such as The Châteaux de Fontainebleau, Malmaison, Versailles and Compiègne, The Mobilier National, The Musée de la Céramique de Sèvres, The Archives of the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres and the Musée national de la Legion d’honneur, provide a full picture of Napoleonic Imagery. 250 objects – Furniture, precious Metalware, ceramics, textiles and Wallpaper – will be displayed in the Nave of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in an exhibition design by Philippe Renaud.

Practical information

Les Arts Décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris
Tél. : 01 44 55 57 50
Métro : Palais-Royal, Pyramides ou Tuileries

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