Les amis invite you to participate in a two-voice talk by Pierre Chastang and Matthieu Thoury on the work of Pierre Soulage. This conference will be followed by a drink. 

With Pierre Chastang and Matthieu Thoury

MR // Evening around Pierre Soulages

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Sam Szafran (1934-2019) has a very singular place in the history of art of the second half of the 20th century. He dedicated his work to a figurative and poetic/icconic approach to reality that he developed far from the art world and its trends, in the seclusion of the studio. Three years after the artist's death, the Musée de l'Orangerie highlights, in the first exhibition dedicated to the artist by a French museum in two decades, the few existential subjects that exist according to the artist – namely workshops, staircases and foliage - which all have his immediate environment.

With a mediator

Sam Szafran, obsessions of a painter

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International Circle

Acquisition Group for Design

Acquisition Group for Photography

Acquisition Group for Contemporary Art

 Acquisition Group for the French Scene from the 1950s to the 1980s

Mission Recherche

Gérard Garouste is a painter, decorator, set designer, illustrator, sculptor and engraver. From the beginning of the 1980s, he embodied the return to figuration, as did the German neo-expressionists and the artists of the Italian trans-avant-garde at the same time. His painting is a reflection on the universal and the timeless, on love, death, wisdom and madness and is opposed to conceptual art. For Garouste "the painting belongs to the viewer, not to the maker". In other words, he paints much less for himself than for others. Painting "is not an end in itself, but a means of accessing knowledge", he acknowledges. Art makes it possible to express the inexpressible, to reveal what would otherwise remain hidden.

With Sophie Duplaix, head of the contemporary collections department and Michel Gauthier, curator of the contemporary collections department

Scène Française années 50-80 // Gérard Garouste's workshop