Exhibition-dossier: Ipoustéguy, from abstract painting to figurative sculpture

Name: Exhibition-dossier: Ipoustéguy, from abstract painting to figurative sculpture
Start: 2020-09-18T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Départemental d'Art Ancien et Contemporain

On the occasion of the centenary of its birth, the Departmental Council of the Meuse organizes an Ipoustéguy Season with which MUDAAC is associated by the presentation of a selection of works.

18 and 19 September 2020Passed

Conditions

Free and free admission

Végétal, 1955 © Conseil départemental de la Meuse, cliché Nicolas Leblanc © ADAGP, Paris, 2020-2021

Jean Robert, known as Ipoustéguy, was one of the major sculptors of the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1920, in Dun-sur-Meuse, he died in his native town in 2006. Solitary, he did not follow, nor initiate, any current, any school. Insatiable worker, he will make 600 sculptures, hundreds of watercolours, drawings, paintings. His works, often monumental, are present in the largest international public collections.
On the occasion of the centenary of its birth, the Conseil départemental de la Meuse organizes an Ipoustéguy Season to which MUDAAC is associated by the presentation, in the permanent exhibition rooms, of a selection of paintings and sculptures of the 1950s and 1980s.

About the location

Musée Départemental d'Art Ancien et Contemporain

1 place Lagarde, 88000 Épinal

Vosges
Grand Est

In 1822, the General Council of Vosges having decided on the creation of "Museum", the departmental Museum occupies buildings(ships) of the old(former) hospital Saint-Lazare builds to the 17th century. It will be necessary to wait for 1956, that are shaved the school and the library(bookcase) annexed to the building(ship), so that the museum could have an open space towards the city(estate), privileged situation, midtown, between the Moselle and the channel(canal). An extension will be realised in 1970 by the team of Pierre-François Codou, Franck Hindley, Twill Caillaud (Paris) and Jean-Jacques Guyot (Nancy).
The departmental Museum of contemporary and old(former) art is one of the most important museums of Lorraine, both by quality and by scale of its collections: more than 34 000 objects and works of art are kept(preserved) there. Around the heads - of work of Georges de La Tour, Rembrandt and Claude le Lorrain, the collection of paintings(paints) and of sculptures proposes a wide panorama of European pictorial production, of 16th in the first half of the 20th century. The collection of contemporary art presents the big(great) European and American movements of fifty last years. Finally, the archaeological collections, of medieval art, the Renaissance, as well as arts and popular traditions allow to the public to discover the history(story) of Vosges, first human setting-up(presences) until the 19th century.