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Venet at Versailles

kvdb — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:03:47 +0000

A new milestone in the saga of Jean-Jacques Aillagon’s polemical contemporary art programme at Versailles. After blockbuster exhibitions by international contemporary art stars Jeff Koons then Takashi Murakami, the palace presents an exhibition by New-York based French sculptor Bernard Venet. His minimal, monumental Cor-ten steel sculptures balance delicately in the gardens of the palace and the Marly Estate, highlighting the symmetry of the landscape and architecture.
Until 1 Nov.
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/

‘Le XVIIIe au goût du jour’ at Versailles

kvdb — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:56:48 +0000

After the exhibition devoted to Madame Grés at the Musée Bourdelle, the Musée Galliera, closed until 2012 for major renovations, curates a new exhibition, this time in the plush apartments of the Grand Trianon at Versailles. Dedicated to the influence of the 18th century on modern fashion, the historical exhibition presents 50 models by great designers of the 20th century that dialogue with costumes and accessories from the 18th century. Influencing all the European courts, 18th-century French culture was embodied by Madame de Pompadour, Madame Du Barry and even more so Marie-Antoinette – paragons of frivolity who have always fascinated the cinema, literature and the fashion world: Vivienne Westwood brings back brazen courtesans, fashionable Belles are corsetted by Azzedine Alaïa, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel invites Watteau, Martin Margiela transforms men’s garments into women’s, Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga turns women into marquis and Alexander McQueen for Givenchy clothes his marquises in vests embroidered with gold thread…
Until 9 Oct. Noon-6.30pm (closed Mon).
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/

Bourrellec Brothers for Versailles

kvdb — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:44:35 +0000

Sibling design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have won the competition to work on ‘enhancing’ Versailles’ extraordinary Gabriel staircase, which leads to the royal apartments. One of the most impressive features of the Versailles palace, the double stone staircase was designed by royal architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel and built in 1772, but was left uncompleted until 1985. The project to install contemporary works on this site was originally given to Daniel Buren, before a change of direction via the creation of a design competition. The Bourroullec brothers should reveal their project for the site shortly. (And from 7 Oct, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will present the first major retrospective in France dedicated to their elegant work.)
www.bouroullec.com/

New hotel at Versailles

kvdb — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:03:56 +0000

An annex to the Versailles Palace is set to become a luxury, 23 room hotel. The Hotel du Grand Control, formerly quarters to the King’s treasurer, has fallen into desrepair over the last 2 centuries, and as the Versailles administration cannot afford the repairs, they are choosing, in a ‘pioneering initiative’, to lease it out to Belgian hotel group Ivy International, who will renovate and transform the 17th-century building into a 5 star hotel, opening to the public in Jan 2012.

Murakami Versailles

kvdb — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:44:32 +0000

After Jeff Koons and Xavier Veilhan, this year contemporary Japanese artist Murakami will be bringing his super bright and superflat art to Louis IX’s opulent abode for the season’s blockbuster show. Murakami explains ‘Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality. So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition. I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château. With a broad smile I invite you all to discover the wonderland of Versailles.’ The show opens to the general public on Tuesday.
Tue 14 Sep-12 Dec. Twenty-three works, painting and sculptures, with eight created especially for this show, are installed in the Grand Apartment and Hall of Mirrors, and included in the tour of the Grand Apartment.
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/

Camille ‘God is Sound’ at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles

kvdb — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:32:29 +0000

The hyperactive and hyper-creative singer Camille will be performing a new piece ‘God is Sound’ comprising chants from different religious traditions: Christian, Sufi, Buddhist, Jewish, Shinto, Hindu, and including Bach’s Infinite Canon, all this inside the incredible Royal Chapel at Versailles.
Wed 3, Thu 4 Feb, 9pm, 45-150€.

Takashi Murakami next guest at the Château de Versailles

kvdb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:53:59 +0000

After Jeff Koons, then Xavier Veilhan, Japanese art star Takashi Murakami is invited to invest the hallowed halls of the Versailles Palace for his first major retrospective in France, and will exhibit his works in 15 rooms of the palace, including the King’s and Queen’s apartments and the Hall of Mirrors. About a third of the pieces will be new, produced expecially for the show. The exhibition opens 12 Sep and runs through to 12 Dec 2010.
www.chateauversailles.fr/

VEILHAN VERSAILLES

kvdb — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:57:08 +0000

After Jeff Koons triple kitsch burger, Versailles continues with a programme of cutting edge contemporary art, handing the palace courtyard and gardens over to up-and-coming French artist Xavier Veilhan.
Until 13 December.
www.veilhan-versailles.com/