Bordeaux: Three major exhibitions not to be missed when the museums reopen – 20 minutes
- The museums reopening scheduled for Wednesday will initially take place with a limited capacity of 8 m2 per visitor, before increasing to 4 m2 per visitor on June 9.
- In Bordeaux, it will be an opportunity to discover three beautiful exhibitions, which have been waiting to open for several months.
- We will be able to marvel at the impressionist painters at the submarine base, (re) discover Dionysos and Bacchus at the Cité du Vin, and dive into the world of designer Hugo Pratt at the Aquitaine museum.
After six months of closure, the museums were able to refine their projects. Three exhibitions which were to be held in 2020 or at the beginning of this year, will thus finally be able to be presented from Wednesday, May 19, in compliance with the health rules in force. It is Monet, Renoir… Chagall, Voyages en Méditerranée at the Bassins de Lumières (submarine base), Drink with the gods at the Cité du Vin, and Hugo Pratt, Horizons Lines at the Aquitaine museum. 20 minutes was able to visit them in preview… Presentation.
Monet, Renoir… Chagall, Voyages in the Mediterranean at the Basins of Lights
This new immersive exhibition in the gigantism of the Bordeaux submarine base site revolves around the Mediterranean. “It is an exhibition on the discovery of the Mediterranean by artists from the end of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century, with Monet, Renoir at the beginning, a passage among the fauves, the pointillists in the middle, and Chagall to end in apotheosis, who remains one of the great painters of the light of the Mediterranean, summarizes the director of the Bassins de Lumières Augustin de Cointet. These painters discovered the fabulous lights that we have in the south of France, thanks to the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée train line which opened at the end of the 19th century. “
Already presented in two other Culturespaces sites, the Carrières de Lumières in Baux-de-Provence, and the Atelier des Lumières in Paris, this exhibition “has been completely redone because the Bassins de Lumières bring a completely new staging. particular with deeper perspectives and a play of reflection in the water ”continues Augustin de Cointet.
A shorter program will present the gaze of another artist, Yves Klein, on the Mediterranean. “Klein is the painter of the immaterial, and his great revelation is the blue that comes from the depth of color of the Mediterranean. “
Until January 2, 2022
Drink with the Gods at the City of Wine
Fourth major exhibition of the Cité du Vin, Drink with the gods is dedicated to a “founding” period in the history and culture of wine, Greek and Roman antiquity. Exceptional objects from the Louvre, the Gandur foundation or the archaeological museum of Athens are to be discovered along this very enriching exhibition, as well as contemporary works by street artists.
“The particularity of the Greek world is to have created a myth and a god around wine, Dionysos,” explains Isabelle Tassignon, archaeologist, and one of the two curators of the exhibition. Dionysus appears in many forms, young and seductive, old and drunk, and he can also take the form of a bull-god… But his most canonical form is a young ephebe accompanied by a panther, the animal-attribute of Dionysus. “” Dionysos is the central character, even if it is not an exhibition on Dionysos, specifies Jean-Yves Marin, archaeologist, museum director and other curator of the exhibition. We also show the shift towards Bacchus, and we explain how in the Roman world wine becomes something commonplace, unlike the Greeks, where wine is the prerogative of the gods, and if men drink it it is to get closer. of these gods. “
“Wine consumption in the Greek world is extremely ritualistic,” adds Isabelle Tassignon. We do not consume wine in just any vase, and we use it chopped with water. Those who consume it pure pass for barbarians. It is also flavored, with spices, herbs, which are filtered. Finally, it is men who consume it, not women, except in exceptional cases. “
Until August 29
Hugo pratt, Lines of Horizons, at the Aquitaine museum
Rewriting of an exhibition that had already been held at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, Hugo Pratt, Horizons Lines travels through the work of the famous cartoonist, accompanying it with ethnological objects that echo him.
In his work, and in particular through his main hero Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt has carried out “real ethnographic work” insists the co-curator of this exhibition Michel Pierre, who knew the artist well. “Even though he lived in Argentina or Brazil, Pratt most often took his inspiration from catalogs of museum exhibits, or from the National Geographic, tells Michel Pierre. I don’t think he ever visited Papua New Guinea, or China, or Hong Kong, but he had a great book culture. “Director of the Aquitaine Museum, Laurent Védrine underlines” the documentary work of very high quality carried out by Pratt on these cultures. “
Pirogues, masks, statues… Several objects presented come directly from the collections of the Aquitaine museum, others have been loaned by the Quai Branly museum in Paris, the Neuchâtel ethnographic museum or the La Rochelle museum. “Associating objects that come from Africa, Asia, Oceania, with the boards of Hugo Pratt allows us to present our collections in a more dynamic way than usual, explains Paul Matharan, curator and project manager of the exhibition. And it was by rereading Pratt that we realized that we had many objects in our reserves, which “stuck” to his work. Some of these objects are even presented for the first time.
Until February 6, 2022