The Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, the setting for the famous Issenheim altarpiece and many Renaissance masterpieces, has just reopened its doors in December, 2015, after three years of construction work to enlarge the facility and hopefully double the number of visitors. Set in a former Dominican convent since its creation in 1853, the museum has grown from 4,000 to 7,900 square meters and expects to attract 350,000 visitors a year (up from 200,000), making it one of the most visited fine arts museum outside Paris.
The new museum, renovated at a cost of 44 million euros by the Swiss architects Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog, now includes a modern building connected to the old wing by an underground gallery, and it incorporates the former 1906 municipal baths. This new wing will house modern art collections (with Georges Mathieu alongside Soulages, Dubuffet, Poliakoff) that had been intermittently relegated to the museum’s archives. Since 1960 Mr. Gérard Cahn, Vice-President of the Schongauer Society, under the presidency of Mr. Alfred Betz, has played a fundamental role in the policy for acquiring modern art pieces.
The new display will allow visitors to view Seventh Avenue (1957) and Hommage à Monsieur de Vauban (Homage to Monsieur de Vauban, 1969). The official inauguration will take place January 23, 2016 and will be attended by François Hollande, President of the French Republic, and Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament.
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Thanks to Frédérique Goerig-Hergott, Head Conservator of Cultural Heritage (modern and contemporary art) at the Unterlinden Museum, for her assistance.
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🇫🇷 L'exposition des œuvres sur papier de Georges Mathieu chez Perrotin est ouverte du mardi au samedi, de 11h à 19h, jusqu’au 30 septembre, au 2bis avenue Matignon.
« Georges Mathieu, fondateur de l'Abstraction lyrique, est reconnu internationalement pour ses œuvres sur toile énergiques, parfois monumentales. Il est aussi renommé en France pour sa production d’artiste total, dans les domaines les plus variés, des affiches aux médailles et pièces de monnaie, en passant par les tapisseries des Gobelins, les porcelaines de Sèvres et même l’architecture d’avant-garde.
Au sein de cette multitude de supports et de techniques, ses œuvres sur papier, qui furent souvent exposées au côté de ses peintures, ont rarement fait l’objet d’une présentation dédiée. Elles méritent pourtant qu’on leur prête une attention particulière, à la fois en tant qu’illustrations supplémentaires du talent protéiforme de Mathieu, et par leurs qualités propres, leurs caractéristiques distinctives qui nous offrent un récit sur l’évolution du style de l’artiste, parallèle à celui que nous offrent ses peintures. » – Édouard Lombard, Directeur du Comité Georges Mathieu
🌏 ‘Georges Mathieu, the founder of Lyrical Abstraction, is internationally renowned for his dynamic, sometimes monumental works on canvas. In France, he is also known as a total artist, working in a wide variety of fields, from posters to medals and coins, from Gobelins tapestries to Sèvres porcelain and even avant-garde architecture.
Amidst the vast array of media and techniques, his works on paper, although often exhibited alongside his paintings, have rarely been the subject of a separate exhibition. Yet they deserve special consideration, not only to showcase Mathieu's protean talent but because of their unique qualities that demonstrate the evolution of his style in parallel with his paintings.’
On view until September 30 at 2 bis avenue Matignon
Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-7PM
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Views of Georges Mathieu’s exhibition at Perrotin 2 bis Matignon, 2023
Photo: Tanguy Beurdeley
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