Le peintre de la vie moderne / The Painter of Modern Life
- 5 Nov 2005 - 19 Mar 2006
The contemporary life of the painters of Le peintre de la vie moderne is composed of abandoned cities, the fragile happiness of the suburbs and the utopia of modernism. The artists make use of contemporary media such as manipulated photographs, computer images and satellite pictures. The modern life in these paintings breathes the calm of the village of Twin Peaks: nothing is what it seems at first sight
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De schilderijen van Le peintre de la vie moderne vullen de gebouwen van Museum De Paviljoens -
Foto Polle Willemsen
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“He [Constantin Guys] has everywhere sought after the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life, the distinguishing character of that quality which, with the reader’s kind permission, we have called ‘modernity’. Often weird, violent and excessive, he has contrived to concentrate in his drawings that acrid or heady bouquet of the wine of life.” Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, Phaidon Press Ltd, p. 41, transl. of Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)
At the exhibition Le peintre de la vie moderne / De schilder van het moderne leven / The Painter of Modern Life were shown more than 100 paintings by the artists Sven Kroner, Sophia Schama, Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Stefan Kürten, Ulf Puder, Ina Bierstedt, Peter Stoffel, Arjan van Helmond, Tjebbe Beekman and Angelina Gualdoni. The paintings were hung in the style of a 19th-century Salon, covering the 6-metre-high walls of Museum De Paviljoens.
With thanks to the [www.flevoland.nl Province of Flevoland[, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the town of Almere and the Mondriaan Foundation and all lenders.
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