Nuit des Musées 2024 promises to be a memorable one at the MAC/VAL, the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne in Vitry-sur-Seine! Inaugurated in 2005, the MAC/VAL is the first contemporary art museum in France to be entirely dedicated to artistic creation since the 1950s. Located in Vitry-sur-Seine, a city renowned for its commitment to the arts and its cultural dynamism, the museum was designed by architect Jacques Ripault. The building, with its bold, modern architecture, covers an area of 13,000 m² and houses a permanent collection of over 2,000 works by French and international artists.
The Nuit des Musées is the perfect opportunity to discover this cultural site in the Val-de-Marne département. During this not-to-be-missed event, many of the Paris region's most fascinating spots invite you to discover our heritage in a whole new way, with an attractive program of nocturnal visits and special events. There's something for everyone! So, would you like to find out what's in store at the MAC/VAL for the 20th Nuit des Musées in Paris and the Île-de-France region? Don't miss the next date, May 18, 2024. After all, it's THE must-attend event for all art lovers!
Program as part of "La Métropolitaine", the Greater Paris Metropolis' international contemporary art event.
Taste the infusion concocted by Maxime Rossi to awaken the senses and reconcile with the natural world and its dreamlike potential. Concocted by Maxime Rossi, this infusion is part of the "Terre, air, feu" project, conceived as part of "La Métropolitaine", the international contemporary art event of the Greater Paris Metropolis organized in collaboration with TRAM, the Paris/Île-de-France contemporary art network.
Using a selection of works from the "L'œil vérité" collection, the "Création et Culture du design" class from Lycée Adolphe Cherioux (Vitry-sur-Seine, France) created a series of graphic treatments, culminating in the creation of an itinerary of "memory cards". Visitors discover each of the works' imprints and progress in a sensitive apprehension of the collection.
From 5pm to 6pm: Activation of the "memory cards" by the students.
Experience, feel and join in with the score of gestures written and conceived for the works in the "L'œil vérité" exhibition. A unique experience close to the collection, allowing you to read and feel a work of art with your body.
The "L'art au corps" project by Aurélie Gandit and Compagnie Callicarpa was carried out with the participation of Collège Gustave Monod de Vitry-sur-Seine.
Share and listen to authentic sound paintings, in front of the works. A new format combining visual art and sound creation for a sensitive and renewed approach to the works.
To experience the exhibition "L'œil vérité" in a different way, this exhibition will feature a radio program in the midst of the works, providing the setting for the broadcast of sound poems.
A project in partnership with La Muse en Circuit - Centre national de création musicale, Arte radio, and La Maison de la radio.
Immersive tour of 16 works from the "L'œil vérité" exhibition. Listening through headphones, the works unfold and open up to other imaginary worlds.
A project carried out with Collège Adolphe Chérioux in Vitry-sur-Seine and Antoine Watteau in Nogent-sur-Marne.
Based on her book 7 comptines d'oiselles et d'oiseaux (Éditions Thierry Magnier, 2023), Sarah Cheveau imagines a workshop for making a book from A to Z with glue and scissors.
After a reading of her books and a presentation of her cut-paper technique, Sarah Cheveau presents a method for constructing a simple, lilting story, as well as a quick binding, so that each participant can leave with his or her own mini bird album!
At the end of the workshop, participants can discover "Radio oiseaux" by Marylou and Nathan Luyé, a gentle journey in sound based on the book 7 comptines d'oiselles et d'oiseaux by Sarah Cheveau.
For parents and children aged 5 and over.
Documentation center
Playlist" tour of the "L'œil vérité" collection exhibition
And if artworks had to have a soundtrack, what would it be? Discover or rediscover the exhibition of the collection in music during this "playlist" tour concocted by the museum teams!
Duration: 1h
In connection with the exhibition "Humain Autonome : Déroutes" presented at MAC VAL until September 22, 2024
"Cloches sous pression" is a project of musical instrument-sculptures imagined by François Dufeil and giving rise to exhibitions, concerts, invitations to collaboration with musicians and performers.
The collaboration between François Dufeil, visual artist, and Charles Dubois, percussionist, began in 2019. After several residencies and performances, François Dufeil is developing an instrumentarium made up of a dozen modules in brass, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, rubber and black steel. The various salvaged objects and materials are selected for their particular sonic qualities. They are designed and shaped into sculpture-instruments. On these unique-sounding instruments, Charles Dubois's compositions give shape to an energetic yet subtle performance, a staging and vibration of the materials that are dear to the visual artist's practice. Between frenetic rhythms and dazzling metallic melodies, he explores the timbres, dynamic variations and different resonances of the many metals, modules and shapes that make up this multiple instrument.
Visit the exhibition "Humain Autonome : Déroutes" with exhibition curators Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer and Salim Santa Lucia.
Exhibition presentation:
An autonomous Subject, freed from its physical limits, driven by inexorable progress, becoming master and possessor of nature: such is the myth of which the car is the symbol. In other words, an epic, individualistic and "Petromasculinist" (according to Cara New Dagget) narrative - one that supports modes of production, relationships of domination and exploitation that are at the root of the destruction of our ecosystems.
The exhibition "Humain Autonome : Déroutes" addresses this modern legacy, comparing the imaginary and realities of the motorized civilization. An object of fetishism, the automobile is here reinscribed in the energy systems, work organization, geopolitical stakes, eroticism and counter-cultures it implies - those of "Fossil Capital", according to Andreas Malm, which never ceases to outlive itself.
The artists in this exhibition, from different generations and from the French and international scenes, engage with a different conception of human autonomy: understood not as independence from all exteriority, but as the capacity to reflect on our own determinations and interdependencies. An autonomy situated in relation to a social and symbolic order that needs to be deconstructed.
Opening the way to other horizons, other points of escape, their works become tactics of bifurcation and deviation to overturn and redefine dominant economic logics and value systems: exploitation of bodies and land, overproduction, extractivism, colonial conquests, speed, power, progress...
Made up of tens of thousands of parts, a car is at once a world in itself, a banal everyday object and an icon of twentieth-century technical progress. _ While the car owes its development to an initial promise - that of being able to travel faster and further, offering hitherto unheard-of individual autonomy - the aim here is to look at the emancipations and enslavements produced by motor culture.
Drawing alternative narratives, the exhibition generates open, sometimes paradoxical, propositions.
Visit the collection exhibition "L'œil vérité" with Nicolas Surlapierre, director of MAC VAL and curator of the exhibition.
A history of contemporary art in France, 1950-1990 and beyond.
This new exhibition in the collection offers, in a unity of time and place, a kind of history of contemporary art in France. Between the first work in this tour and the last, "L'œil vérité" sheds light on the distinction between modern and contemporary art and its ambivalence, which was not made immediately, contrary to what art historians have been able to say by putting forward the rather too convenient date of 1945.
This new presentation is also the story of a distinction and a critical and historical construction. Following in the footsteps of movements, this exhibition recounts the various debates that have been used to establish the distinguishing marks between modern and contemporary art. While these are debatable and sometimes almost interchangeable, they do have the merit of establishing landmarks. This new opus offers a reflection on the transition between modern art, traditionally defined in terms of rupture, and contemporary art, which is not simply satisfied with this prerequisite.
" L'œil vérité" is also an opportunity to revisit or discover works from the collection, most of which had not been shown since the museum opened in 2005.
In connection with the exhibition "Humain Autonome : Déroutes" presented at MAC VAL until September 22, 2024
"Driving Drama", concert by Elsa Michaud
Elsa Michaud is a performer, musician and car driver. In her debut album Driving Drama, released on TG Gondard's Brussels electro-pop label Midi Fish, Elsa Michaud presents 9 tracks revolving around her obsession with cars. She sings of almost American landscapes, criss-crossed by endless roads, on which women drive cars and motorcycles, in disturbing nocturnal atmospheres.
Future resident of the columns of the luxury fanzine Garagisme or unplanned soundtrack to M6-Turbo Sunday mornings, who knows where Elsa Michaud's automobile headlong rush will end up. More likely, like a character from Crash (Cronenberg version or Ballard version, it's up to you), she turns her drift into cold, hypnotic songs, her voice far forward, her electronic soundtrack moving like a puddle of diesel in a pond, reflecting the light in concentric disks of toxic pastel colors. Renaud Sachet
Auditorium
Running time: 50 minutes
Dates and Opening Time
On May 18th, 2024
Location
MAC/VAL, Val-de-Marne Museum of Contemporary Art
Place de la Libération
94400 Vitry sur Seine
Prices
Free
Official website
www.macval.fr
