Nathanaëlle Herbelin in Le jour des peintres
19 September 2024, 2—9:30 pm
Museé d'Orsay, Paris, France
Following the exhibitions of Peter Doig and Nathanaëlle Herbelin, the Musée d’Orsay continues to explore its relationship with contemporary painting, inviting you to meet 80 painters from the current French art scene. Over the course of an afternoon and evening, you will have a unique opportunity to speak freely with living artists, to discover their work and their view of the museum’s collections. An exceptional event not to be missed!
Orchestrated by the artist Thomas Lévy-Lasne, the event will bring together eighty contemporary painters, each of them waiting alongside one of their works in the Museum’s galleries. This one-day gathering, a performance on an unprecedented scale, will bear witness to the vitality of the French art scene, which is still too little known by the general public.
This outstanding presentation will shine a light on several generations of artists, the gradual feminization of the profession, and the wide stylistic variety of approach. Each artist will take up a chosen position in the Nave next to their painting, in gaps in the installation echoing the Musée d’Orsay’s collections, an indisputable reference and inexhaustible source of inspiration for them. A rare, unforgettable experience! As well as being treated to an unprecedented panorama of today’s pictorial creation, visitors will have the opportunity to exchange with the painters on their work, careers and intentions.
Painters’ Day will provide the Musée d’Orsay’s visitors with an opportunity to hear what today’s creators of art have to say, in a Museum contemporary with them. An occasion to let their own voices be heard in the Museum, and to remind themselves that painters speak a language that may be cultivated but is also understandable and living; an artist’s language.