NATHANAËLLE HERBELIN · TIM EITEL · MADELEINE ROGER-LACAN | COPISTES | Centre Pompidou-Metz
Hors les murs 14 June 2025 - 2 February 2026Address : 1 Parv. des Droits de l'Homme 57000 Metz
We are delighted to announce the participation of Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Tim Eitel and Madeleine Roger-Lacan in the group exhibition COPISTES, a project in exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, from June 14, 2025 to February 2, 2026.
Curated by Donatien Grau, Advisor for Contemporary Programs at the Musée du Louvre and Chiara Parisi, Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Centre Pompidou-Metz will be presenting an unusual exhibition dedicated to the creativity of copyists. Copying was central to the classical tradition. Copying the works of great artists is a tool for learning about the canons, techniques and stories. Absorbing their expertise and adopting their mastery is a pathway to knowledge and artistic creation, from the most academic to the most contemporary.
A number of artists have received the following invitation from the two curators: ‘Imagine a copy of a work of your choosing from the collections of the Musée du Louvre.’
All eras, from antiquity to the 19th century, mingle in a fluid layout, whose exhibition design refers to classic forms of museum display, revealing how many different periods coexist at the Louvre.
Even though many great artists, from Matisse to Picasso, copied the works of past artists, modern art seems to have preferred an approach in which the copy was devalued and continuity was replaced by rupture, figuration by abstraction, freehand painting and sketching by an increase in the number of forms possible.
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