Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art | |
Established | 25 June 2015 |
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Location | Montsoreau, France |
Coordinates | 47°12′56″N 0°03′44″E / 47.2156°N 0.0622°E |
Type | Contemporary art museum |
Collections | Art & Language |
Collection size | 1,000 |
Visitors | 35,000 (2016) |
Founder | Philippe Méaille |
Website | Official website |
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum Contemporary Art is a private museum open to the public in Montsoreau, France.[1][2][3] It opened 8 April 2016.[4] The permanent collection exhibited at Château de Montsoreau consists of Philippe Méaille's collection of works by the conceptual art collective Art & Language.[5][6][7][8]
History
Philippe Méaille, who lives in Anjou, worked with Christian Gillet, the president of the department of Maine-et-Loire, to study the possibility of creating a museum of contemporary art in Anjou, and to install his collection in the château de Montsoreau, a departmental property.[9] On 19 June 2015, Christian Gillet offered Méaille a 25 year lease.[10][11]
Restoration works
During the redevelopment of a former storage room, the masons discovered a chimney dating from about 1450. This chimney is currently being studied in collaboration with the bâtiments de France to be restored. A library on the history of art, contemporary creation and applied arts opened in August 2016. The château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art port reopened at the end of May 2017 after several months of work, to allow its visitors to arrive by boat.[12]
Architecture
Since more than a thousand years, the castle of Montsoreau is the gate of Anjou; it is the only Château de la Loire that is a museum of contemporary art. Historically built by one of the ambassadors of Charles VII King of France, Jean II of Chambes[13] is the first of Kingdom's Lords, with Jacques Cœur to install the Italian Renaissance in France. He built the Château de Montsoreau between 1443 and 1453,[14] directly by the side of the Loire, like Venetian palaces built during the same period.[15]
Collection
The Philippe Méaille collection, which constitutes the collection of the museum,
Between 1965 and now, up to fifty artists have joined or collaborated with Art & Language, including:
Gallery
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Art & Language: Art & Language: Art-Language, Vol.3 Nr.1, 1974.
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Art & Language: Mirror Piece, 1965.
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Art & Language (Michael Baldwin): Air-Conditioning Show, 1966-67.
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Art & Language: Victorine in Art-Language Vol.5 Nr.2 (1984), 1983.
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Art & Language (Mel Ramsden), Secret Painting, 1967.
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Art & Language: Art-Language Vol.5 Nr.1, 1982.
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Art & Language: Art-Language The Journal of Conceptual Art, Vol.1 Nr.1, 1969.
Temporary exhibitions
- 2016: Agnès Thurnauer, a History of Painting.[24][25]
- 2017: Ettore Sottsass, Designer of the World.[26][27]
- 2018: Art & Language, Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light).
- 2018: 1968: Sparta Dreaming Athens, collective exhibition, Tony Smith, Edward Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, Bernar Venet, Maria Marshall, Dan Graham, Art & Language.[28]
- 2019: Mappa Mundi.[29]
- 2019: Roman Signer.[30][31][32]
- 2019: Charlotte Moorman. Think Crazy[33]
Events
François Morellet Prize
The museum collaborates with the National days of Books and Wine in Saumur, to award an art writer with the François Morellet prize.
- 2016: Catherine Millet, art critic and artpress redactor in chief.[34]
- 2017: Michel Onfray, Philosopher.[35]
- 2018: Eric de Chassey, director of the National institute of art history.
- 2019: Bernar Venet, artist.[36]
- 2020: Kenneth Goldsmith
- 2021: Orlan
- 2022: Bernard Marcadé
Miriam Rothschild Gardens
In 2017, the gardens of the castle were transformed into wild gardens.[37] On more than one hectare, the garden represents freedom and biodiversity. Miriam Rothschild (1908–2005), a scientific researcher, created the "natural" gardens. The wild garden favors native plants and preserves the surrounding fauna to propose a balance between fauna and flora.[38][39]
Publications
- 2016: Rod Mengham, Un tour chez Agnès Thurnauer.
- 2016: Art & Language, Entretien avec Victorine Meurend.
- 2017: Art & Language, Affiche: Almost a Home for Homeless Stuff.
- 2017: Fabien Vallos, ISBN 978-2-9557917-0-7
- 2018: Art & Language, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Art & Language Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light).ISBN 978-2-9557917-2-1
References
- ^ "L'Art contemporain réinvente Montsoreau" (in French). ouest-france.fr. 2016.
- ^ "De l'Art Contemporain au Château de Montsoreau". ouest-france.fr. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Le château de Montsoreau devient un centre culturel d'Art Contemporain". saumur-kiosque.com. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Le Château de Montsoreau à l'ère Conceptuelle" (in French). lemonde.fr. August 2016. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "Largest collection of radical conceptualists Art & Language finds home in a French château". artnet.com. 2015.
- ^ "Combining Past, Present and Future: The Contemporary Art Museum at Château de Montsoreau". Mutual Art. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019.
- ^ "Philippe Méaille installe sa collection au Château de Montsoreau" (in French). connaissancedesarts.com. 2016.
- ^ "Quand la peinture sort de sa toile : Art & Language à Montsoreau". AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique (in French). 22 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "Montsoreau-Polémique : faut-il confier le château à un collectionneur ?" (in French). courrierdelouest.fr. 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Chçateau de Montsoreau, un pied dans la Loire, l'autre dans l'art contemporain" (in French). angersmag.info. 20 June 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "De l'art contemporain au Château de Montsoreau" (in French). ouest-france.fr. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Réouverture du port historique du Château de Montsoreau". saumur-kiosque.com. 2017.
- ^ "Famille de Chambes". geneanet.org. 2000.
- ^ "Charles VII et Louis XI". valedeloire.org. 2000.
- ^ "Renaissance à Venise". Atthalin. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "Art & Language empêcheurs de tourner en rond" (in French). artpress.com. 2016.
- ^ "A Historic Conceptual Art Group Has Taken Over a French Château". Hyperallergic. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ "El Valle del Loira y todas sus novedades para el verano". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Art & Language". tate.org. 2008.
- ^ "Collection Art & Language". artgallery.nsw.gov.au. 2000.
- ^ "Kathryn Bigelow life in Arts". castillocorrales.fr. 2000.
- ^ "Art & Language". mam-st-etienne.fr. 2000.
- ^ "Art & Language Uncompleted". macba.cat. 2014.
- ^ "Agnès Thurnauer-Art & Language : une pensée commune de l'art" (in French). lequotidiendelart.com. 2016.
- ^ "Agnès Thurnauer: a History of Painting". e-flux.com. 3 August 2016.
- ^ "Ettore Sottsass ou la liberté guidant l'artiste" (in French). lemonde.fr. 2017.
- ^ "The Met celebrates Ettore Sottsass: the designer who put the fun into function". Financial Review. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ Sevior, Michelle (7 November 2018). "ArtPremium – 1968 - Sparta Dreaming Athens at Château de Montsoreau-Museum Contemporary Art". ArtPremium. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ Timsit, Corinne (13 June 2019). "ArtPremium – Art & Language Too Much - In conversation with Philippe Méaille". ArtPremium. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Le point de vue de Christophe Le Gac". artpress (in French). 1 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Artists — Roman Signer - Hauser & Wirth". www.hauserwirth.com. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ Chernick, Karen (20 September 2019). "The Collector Who Turned a 15th-Century French Castle into a Contemporary Art Destination". Artsy. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ l'Ouest, Courrier de (12 November 2019). "Saumurois. Charlotte Moorman " s'installe " pour quatre mois au château-musée de Montsoreau". Courrier de l'Ouest (in French). Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ "Prix François Morellet | artpress". artpress (in French). Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Prix François Morellet". Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art website. 2017.
- ^ "Bernar Venet lauréat du Prix François Morellet 2019". daily.artnewspaper.fr. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ "Wild Garden - Homage to Miriam Rotschild | Jardins Val-de-Loire". jardins-valdeloire.com. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ Tucker, Anthony; Gryn, Naomi (22 January 2005). "Obituary: Dame Miriam Rothschild". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2018.