Certainly one of our favorite Parisian museums (near our motels) has reopened! The Bourdelle Museum (right here) was utterly closed for seven months, and partially closed for 2 years for some essential renovation and structural work.
Now, it’s open as soon as once more, with the workshop of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle utterly restored, a brand new presentation of the gathering with higher information, a brand new café-restaurant known as “Le Rhodia” (the title of Bourdelle’s daughter) and a short lived exhibition of works by Philippe Cognée known as “La peinture d’après” till sixteenth July 2023.
Oh, and entrance to the everlasting assortment remains to be free!
Bourdelle’s workshop dates again to 1885, and the museum (based in 1949, twenty years after the demise artist’s demise and expanded in 1992) is a set of various buildings that had been beginning to present their age, with water injury being a selected drawback.
A metallic assist has been added to the principle constructing with the artist’s workshop, the partitions and parquet have been restored, and – utilizing archival images – the works therein have been reorganised to raised replicate the place Bourdelle had positioned them.
The areas across the backyard have additionally been rethought, with new staging from l’Atelier de l’Île and Ciel architectes.
And guests can now benefit from the museum’s café-restaurant, designed by SAME architectes and located within the former house of Bourdelle’s daughter, which she occupied till the Nineteen Fifties.
The menu and administration have been given to the crew behind the Isana eating places, recognized for his or her South American delicacies.
Coinciding with the reopening, the museum has a brand new short-term exhibition of works by Philippe Cognée till sixteenth July 2023 (10€ / 8€). Known as “La peinture d’après”, it’s the most important retrospective of his creations ever proven in Paris. Apparently there are a thousand items to admire 😳 in addition to a filmed 8-minute interview with the artist filmed just lately in his workshop.
Extra information concerning the exhibition (in French) may be discovered right here (PDF), and the accompanying catalogue has simply been revealed – 112 pages, 29€ right here at your native amazon.
The Bourdelle Museum (right here) is open each day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm
Admission free for the everlasting assortment, 10€ / 8€ for the short-term exhibitions
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French-speakers can take a look at the press launch for the reopening beneath. Click on the ‘fullscreen’ button on the backside proper of the picture for extra comfy viewing.
