Histoires de paysages De Monet à Hockney (1890-2026)

Musée Marmottan Monet

The musée Marmottan Monet and the musée de Grenoble are jointly presenting an exceptional exhibition devoted to the art of landscape, from 1890 to the present day. Entitled "Histoires de paysages (1890-2026)", it will be shown in Paris from 24 September 2026 to 31 January 2027, then in Grenoble from 5 March to 4 July 2027. The twentieth century, which opens with a world war, renews the bond between landscape and history. It had been believed that a separation had occurred, a triumph of a landscape that had become autonomous. In fact, it was a new alliance: the union of two forces helping one another to confront the violence of the world. Two are not too many in the face of what leaves one stunned. The era invented new, hybrid forms, going beyond and cancelling out any idea of hierarchy between genres, capable of confronting history through the addition of their respective qualities. It is this field of forces that the present exhibition aims to give visible and intelligible shape to, by proposing a journey through eleven stations that question, along a chrono-thematic current, the relationship between landscape and history. Opening with the gesture of Claude Monet, who offered two Nymphéas to France the day after the armistice of 11 November 1918 in order to celebrate the victory, this peregrination testifies to the constant resistance of landscape as an agent of contemporary history. It will address wars, the quest for origins, appropriation and nostalgia, inner landscapes and the interplay between nature and abstraction. It will address the relationship between landscape and nation. It will address the relation to time as much as to space, the way in which landscape, as an active force, comes to cover over history, between mourning and forgetting. It will also address the way in which landscape has established itself, like a witness, to express our era in its aspirations as much as in its crises, its utopias as much as its anxieties. Landscape today is not merely a matter of pictorial genre as it once was. In photography, sculpture, video as in painting, artists attempt to give shape to our history: our history within the landscape. Eleven chrono-thematic sections structure this exhibition: Nymphéas pour l’histoire, Paysages en guerre, Pays, paysage, Abstraire la nature, À l’origine, Paysages intérieurs, Passé, présent, futur, Local, global, total, Après l’histoire, le paysage, Paysages de l’Anthropocène, Paradis perdus ? These are the stages of a journey, the chapters of a history of our century, whose memory resides within the landscape.

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