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‘Monet, Renoir … Chagall: Journey around the Mediterranean’ – digital exhibition at Atelier des Lumières



The Atelier des Lumières gallery in Paris is holding the ‘Monet, Renoir … Chagall – Journey around the Mediterranean’ exhibition from 28 February 2020 to 3 January 2021.

 

It includes the works of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Camille Pissarro, Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, André Derain, Henri-Edmond Cross, Charles Camoin, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, and others – in fact, 20 artists. All of the artists were influenced by Vincent Van Gogh, who used pure colour as his principal means of expression. 

 

The exhibition of artists spans the period between Impressionism and Modernism. It is a digital light exhibition – large and immersive. 

 

In the 1880s, the Mediterranean shores attracted many artists who left Paris for the southern coast between Collioure and Saint-Tropez for a sea change. They developed a new approach to the representation of light and colour. They all had links to the Mediterranean, either through their origins or through their vacations. 

 

The digital exhibition is a vast series of images displayed in a large warehouse – on its walls and floors. The digital exhibition shows the artistic personalities through seascapes. In seven sequences over 40 minutes, visitors move from one artistic movement to another: from Impressionism, with Monet and Renoir, to Pointillism with Signac and Cross, and Fauvism with Camion, Derain, Vlaminck, and Marquet... and Matisse. 

 

The immersive exhibition also retraces the fascination of Bonnard and Dufy with the Mediterranean, and eventually focuses on one of the greatest colourists of modern art — Chagall. 

 

More than 500 works, which are now held in collections around the globe, fill the Atelier des Lumières gallery with their bright colours. They highlight the variations of their representations of the Mediterranean shores.

 

Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto, and Massimiliano Siccardit produced the exhibition with the musical collaboration of Luca Longobardi.






































 

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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author  of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

 

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