Love in Paris Automatic translate
с 28 Февраля
по 25 МартаAltmans Gallery
Новинский бульвар, 31 ТДЦ Новинский, 2 этаж
Москва
“If you are lucky and lived in Paris when you were young, then wherever you are later, he will stay with you until the end of your days, because Paris is a holiday that is always with you,” Ernest Hemingway.
Paris has long been a symbol of high art, a place to seek inspiration and recognition of talent. Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin lived and worked in the French capital; here the heights of creativity reached Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso.
Love and awe before Paris united the masters who found love, inspiration and harmony in it.
“Love in Paris” is not only the romance of spring and passionate confessions on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower. This is love for Paris itself, its people, ideas, architecture and the spirit of freedom. This attraction is timeless.
For the first time, the Altmans Gallery departs from the concept of a personal exhibition: the exhibition “Love in Paris” will unite the work of ten artists, including Matisse, Degas, Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Villon, Van Dongen, Boden, Karzu. Paris occupied a special place in the life of each of them. And they are in the history and culture of the city.
The exposition will present about 30 works. Some of them are lithographs with a special history: they were created in the 60s of XX as illustrations for an essay by members of the largest literary society - the Goncourt Academy. The circulation of the publication amounted to 180 copies, signed by the authors.
The exhibition “Love in Paris” will run from February 28 to March 25.
Altmans Gallery, Trade Center "Novinsky", 2nd floor
Opening hours are from 12:00 to 21:00.
Gallery works seven days a week.
The cost of a standard ticket is 300 rubles.
About the artists.
“Paris, which stretches before my eyes, gives so many miracles! Here in front of me is the dome of the Disabled Hotel, its modest gold reflects the sun; in the east, the Pantheon as if puts a stamp on the Hill of Saint Genevieve; in the east, the Eiffel Tower soars up; there are domes, towers, bell towers between them, and there are so many of them that I’m even lost in them, ”said Roland Dorjeles about the Paris series of works by Kes Van Dongen, an artist whose landscapes of bohemian Montmartre and portraits of women — courtesans, dancers, actresses and singers - brought him world fame. In 1905, Kes Van Dongen, along with Henri Matisse, were invited to participate in the prestigious Autumn Salon.
At the beginning of the century, a sharp turn happened in the life of another artist who worked in Paris - Pablo Picasso: together with Georges Braque, they introduced a new direction in art - cubism. Later Marriage became famous as a theater artist; among his works are sets for Diaghilev’s ballet “Intolerable” (Les Fâcheux), the Russian Theater ballets “Zephyr and Flora” and “La Sylphide”.
The artists Georges Boden and Marc Chagall amazed contemporaries with the grandeur and scale of their work: Borden decorated the plafonds of the Etruscan hall of the Louvre, and the Shag - Grand Opera.
“Fairytale Paris rises before my eyes among the shadows merging into a single whole. The towers of Notre Dame Cathedral with their rectangular silhouettes take hold of the night sky. How many hopes vibrated in this landscape, how many lives were spent in it, how many appetites were satisfied, how many tortures, how many punishments were carried out in the name of justice, sometimes biased, excessive, and even barbaric, ”as Marc Chagall described the Parisian works.