When she died in 2016, the American painter Shirley Jaffe left behind a rich body of abstract work, a significant part of which was donated to the French state and received by the Musée national d'art moderne in 2019. This new exhibition shows the way in which the artist had to abandon gesturality in order to bring ever greater tension to her artistic experience. The chronological layout orchestrates occasional confrontations between works from different periods. Precious studio notes written by the artist for each of her paintings are presented in the showcase along with archival material collected in the studio.

With Frédéric Paul, curator of the contemporary collection service

Shirley Jaffe : an American in Paris

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Tatiana Trouvé is developing a body of work that is as vast as it is ambitious, where drawing and sculpture intertwine in a permanent back-and-forth movement. Her work in three-dimensional space proceeds from the invention of places to be (re)inhabited, while her graphic production, which is essentially two-dimensional, gives rise, like so many scenes, to fragmentary arrangements of architectural, landscape and furniture elements that evoke the work of dreams and their mechanisms. The artist thus weaves an "art of memory", which is not a technique of memorization, but rather a game with oblivion, leaving the memory all the latitude to become imprecise.

With the artist and Jean-Pierre Criqui, curator of the contemporary collections

IC, GAAC, Donors, Grand Donors Benefactors and Perspective Benefactor // Tatiana Trouvé

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International Circle

Acquisition Group for Design

Acquisition Group for Photography

Acquisition Group for Contemporary Art

Groupe d'Acquisition pour la Scène Française des années 50 - 80

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Laurence Bertrand d'Orléac, professor of art history at Sciences Po and member of our Scientific Advisory Board, has honoured us with an exclusive meeting on the occasion of her exhibition "Les Choses" at the Louvre Museum, from 12 October 2022 to 23 January 2023.
An exhibition on still life invites us to a formidable dive into the heart of things and their representation since the beginning of humanity. In the eyes of artists of all times, these things speak admirably of our relationship with the living and the non-living, materialism and spirituality, abundance and scarcity. The friends offer you a preview of the scenario imagined for the Louvre. 

Encounter around the exhibition "Les Choses"

MR // Encounter with Laurence Bertrand d'Orléac