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This is a first since the museum opened in 2012. Paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Francisco de Goya will be exhibited. This renewal will take place next September.
The Galerie du temps at the Louvre-Lens (Pas-de-Calais), where more than 200 works are exhibited free of charge, will be completely renewed at the end of the year, a first since the opening of the museum in 2012, its company announced on Tuesday. new director Annabelle Ténèze.
This gallery will experience an “almost complete renewal of its works”, with the exception of “one or two favorites that we are keeping”, announced Ms. Ténèze, director of the Louvre-Lens since September 2023, during a press conference.
The “first complete renewal of the works”
In its new version, the Galerie du temps will have as its flagship work “The Four Seasons”, a series of four paintings painted in the 16th century by the Milanese Giuseppe Arcimboldo, known for his portraits made up of assemblages of plants, animals or Various objects. He will stay at the Louvre-Lens “two or three years”, specified Laurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre museum.
This will be the “first complete renewal of the works” of the Galerie du temps, underlined Annabelle Ténèze, following “250 rotations of works in ten years” until then done gradually and therefore “not always spectacularly visible”.
The Galerie du temps will close on September 25 and will reopen once renewed in December, “for Sainte-Barbe”, a miners’ day celebrated on December 4, said Laurence des Cars.
A portrait signed Francisco de Goya
The new selection, like the current one, will mix in this vast 3,000 m2 room works from various continents and centuries, a diversity which “allows us to cross civilizations”, recalls Annabelle Ténèze.
Among these works, in addition to Arcimboldo’s paintings, will include a portrait signed Francisco de Goya, dating from 1791, a triptych dating from the end of the 14th century retracing the life of the Virgin, and a “panel with facing peacocks”, a work Iranian from the 16th century.
“This renewal is accompanied by a scenographic renewal,” indicated Ms. Ténèze, with within the future Gallery “a river of time, that is to say a curved and moving river which will (…) connect the works together.
After the loans in 2022 of The Crouching Scribe, a masterpiece from the department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre, and since June 2023 for a period of one year of “The Lacemaker” by Vermeer, “there will be other surprises” in the coming months, promised Laurence Des Cars.
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