In Transit Blog: In Paris, Pictures at an Airport Exhibition

Written By Unknown on Senin, 24 Maret 2014 | 17.36

The wait before boarding a plane can feel interminable, but those passing through Paris's Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport have a stimulating alternative to idle perfume-testing in the tax-free zone.

(Leave it to the French to offer a last gasp of art even as you're on the brink of departure.)

Espace Musées, a diminutive museum housed in the airport's Terminal 2E, just inaugurated its third temporary exhibition. Open since late 2012, the free showcases — in English, Chinese, and French — are accessible for passengers who have checked in.

This art-amid-transportation phenomenon exists in a handful of airports worldwide to lesser degrees: The Los Angeles International Airport held Influx, a public art festival in 2013, while Athens International Airport has a permanent exhibition related to Neolithic-era archaeological artifacts.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has a sister permanent space at Schiphol Airport featuring Dutch masters.

Espace Musées, however, offers a rotating lineup of temporary exhibitions that shuffles every six months. It's an ambitious rhythm commensurate with any cosmopolitan cultural institution. Serge Lemoine, who was president of the Musée d'Orsay from 2008-11, heads up and plans the exhibitions.

For each show, Espace Musée teams with an individual Parisian art establishment.

The inaugural exhibit was in partnership with the Rodin Museum; the second with the Dubuffet Foundation.

The newest expo, "From Le Brun to Calder: Furniture from Louis XIV to Today," is a selection of furnishings and tapestries pulled from the Mobilier National collection. Historically, it was the institution commissioned to provide lavish fixtures and tapestries for the king and his court; today, it conserves thousands of both modern and centuries-old furniture and textiles. (It runs through Sept. 17.)

Twenty pieces compare works made over four centuries. A behemoth bronze-edged set of drawers used by Louis XIV (designed by André-Charles Bulle) is juxtaposed between bright abstract tapestries by Alexander Calder and Joan Miró.

The architect Le Corbusier is here shown in flat tapestry form, the nonfigurative silhouettes from his painting "Les Musiciennes" hanging alongside the painter Charles Le Brun's muted landscape, created almost three centuries earlier.

Jean Veber's fanciful world of fairy tale characters — sleeping gnomes, roaming giants, placid unicorns — is seen on seat backs and fire screens.


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