On the occasion of the exhibition "Pastels, from Millet to Redon", eight students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris will create, in front of the visitors, a vast panoramic pastel drawing of 10 meters long. This live performance will take place in the Seine Gallery (Level 0) until June 29, 2023, at the rate of one session per week.
From this original intervention, a real dialogue with the works presented in the exhibition, will be born, over the weeks, a giant pastel allowing the public to appreciate all the varieties and subtleties of the uses of this medium.
The students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris will work on a paper support (224gr/m2), with a panoramic format of 10 meters long and 1.50 meters high.
This performance takes place every day until 29 June from 6pm to 9.30pm, and on Saturday 13 May during European Museum Night.
Speakers
Mathias Bensimon ;
Juliette Duchemin ;
Rusné Gocentaité ;
Li Jinshuai ;
Kraus ;
Hakim Sahiri ;
Alexandra Willis;
Misha Zavalnyi.
The project
The exhibition is organized in 8 rooms and 8 themes. After observing the works on display, each student has chosen a theme to which he or she wishes to relate.
The objective is to emphasize the use of pastel and the marking possibilities opened by this medium. Overall, the resulting mural will reflect the currents present in the past exhibition through the prism of today's artists using pastel.
Different motifs and styles will appear throughout the exhibition. The colors and shapes will blossom, and may blend into each other until the end of the exhibition when the project will have reached its final form.
Practical information
Until June 29, 2023
Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
75007 Paris
