THE GRAND TOUR
Exhibition of the Collection Lambert en Avignon at the Villa Medici, Rome
5 May – 15 July, 2008
Curator : Eric Mezil
Miquel Barceló, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Charles Blais, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Francesco Clemente, François-Xavier Courrèges, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Christian Marclay, Brice Marden, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rei Naito, Giulio Paolini, Bruno Peinado, Charles Sandison, Julian Schnabel, Andres Serrano, Niele Toroni, Cy Twombly, Francesco Vezzoli
To exhibit the Collection Lambert in Rome, in the famous or unknown spaces of the Villa Medici has been a dream since the installation of the museum at the Hôtel de Caumont in Avignon in 2000. It is thanks to the meeting of Richard Peduzzi, director of the French Academy in Rome with Yvon Lambert, art dealer and collector, that this honorary project was made possible. For if everyone could all dream of one day exhibiting at the Villa Medici, this exhibition will demonstrate that this wish was the fruit of a reflection in which it appeared obvious that it made sense to present masterpieces from the Avignon collection in Rome, in one of its most beautiful palaces..
The exhibition The Grand Tour, in reference to the trips of several months duration that European intellectuals undertook through Italy from the 17th century, shows this highly personal passion which motivates the collector for the city of Rome and its history through the work of more than forty artists. Cy Twombly's sublime works on paper are references to mythology are as amorous as the Painter and his model by Matisse or Picasso; Brice Marden's collages are intimately linked with Quattrocento art history. What can be said about Andres Serrano's busts of Dante, or of Virgil by Miquel Barceló, or a Roman emperor by Jean-Charles Blais, references to the three graces or a Niobe drama by Giulio Paolini, these sculptures that we find deep inside the grounds of the Villa Medici...
More d'informations : http://www.villamedici.it
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