LOUVRE LENS - THE ALBUM 2013 LA GALERIE DU TEMPS (ANGLAIS) (COEDITION ET MUSEE SOMOGY) - Softcover

Vincent Pomarède Jean-Luc Martinez, Xavier Dectot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2757205943 ISBN 13: 9782757205945

Publisher: SOMOGY EDITIONS, 2013

Synopsis

The Grande Galerie forms the heart of the Louvre-Lens. It welcomes exhibitions conceived for five years from the works conferred to the Louvre's care and forms, in a way, the permanent collection of the museum in Lens. Like all permanent shows, however, it is not immobile: in Lens, it will be marked by annual rotations that will see certain works leave and replaced by others. What really marks the originality of the first exhibition held here, "La Galerie du Temps", is the choice of presentation. Occupying all the long gallery conceived by the architect, SANAA, the elegant and daring museography by Studio Adrien Gardère presents the works in a single space, according to a chronological logic. Thus works that, in encylopaedic museums all over the world, are separated because they belong to different civilisations or different techniques confront each other here. And yet the Mesopotamian and Persian worlds were in constant contact with Ancient Greece and Egypt, and in the Middle Ages, as in the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous artists were both painters, sculptors and specialists in other techniques. "La Galerie du Temps" thus offers visitors a unique perception of art history, within the same limits as the collections of the Louvre, starting with the invention of writing in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC and ending with the Industrial Revolution in the mid 19th century, the very moment when the exploitation of coal began in Lens.

About this edition

• Publisher: SOMOGY EDITIONS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 2757205943
• ISBN 13: 9782757205945
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56