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Featuring some 180 items selected from the collections of the Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris and the Bibliothèque Historique de la
Ville de Paris, the exhibition "French Revolutions", displayed in
the Hong Kong Museum of History, from the 17th December 2008 to the 16th
March 2009, introduces the revolutions which took place in France in between 1789 and 1871.
The Leisure and Cultural Services
Department and the City of Paris Department of Culture, in collaboration with
the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau jointly present the
exhibition "French
Revolutions", co-organized by the Hong Kong Museum of History and
Paris Musées Collections from the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de
Paris and the Bibliothèque Historique
de la Ville de Paris.
The exhibition
will be diplayed from the 17th December 2008 to the
16th March 2009 in the Hong Kong Museum of History.
In the 18th and 19th century, a number of
revolts and revolutions broke out in France. Among them, the French
Revolution that lasted from 1789 to 1799 brought an end to the absolute
monarchy. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen adopted by
the National Assembly on 26 August 1789 set forth the equality and liberty of
individual. Such notion had been widely spread in Europe
since the outbreak of French Revolution. Subsequent revolutions were
triggered throughout the Continent in the 19th century.
Featuring some 180 items selected from
the collections of the Musée Carnavalet
– Histoire de Paris and the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, this exhibition
introduces the revolutions of France in the 18th and 19th century, through
such paintings as The Tennis Court Oath, Declaration of the Rights of Man and
of the Citizen, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the seizing of the Bastille,
together with other memorabilia of the 1830 and 1848 revolutions and the
invaluable photographs recording the 1871 revolution.
Venue: Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of History 100 Chatham Road
South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Opening Hours: Monday & Wednesday to Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday &
Public Holiday: 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Closed at 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve and Chinese New Year’s Eve Closed on
Tuesdays (except public holidays) and the first two days of the Chinese New
Year
Admission Fees:
Monday & Thursday to Sunday:
 HK$20
(Standard)
HK$14
(Group: 20 persons or above) -HK$10 (Concessionary: Full-time students,
senior citizens aged 60 or above or people with disabilities)
Wednesday:
HK$10
(Standard)
HK$7
(Group: 20 persons or above)
HK$5
(Concessionary: Full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above or
people with disabilities) Free admission for Museum Pass and Weekly Pass
holders
For further information:
Enquiries:
2724 9042
Website:
http://hk.history.museum
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History
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In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and her rival
Liz Taylor, reinterpreted the Mona Lisa and Elvis Presley. From 1967 until
his death in 1987, he produced commissioned portraits of dozens of
personalities, famous or obscure, creating a world fascinated by appearances,
a vertiginous flattering mirror. He revived a neglected genre, applying new
codes which deeply marked the history of portraiture. Alongside film and rock
stars (Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger,
Sylvester Stallone), we find portraits of artists (Man Ray, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Keith Haring), collectors and art
dealers (Dominique de Menil, Bruno Bischofberger, Ileana Sonnabend,
Leo Castelli), politicians (Willy Brandt, Edward
Kennedy), fashion designers (Yves Saint-Laurent, Sonia Rykiel,
Hélène Rochas), businessmen and jet-setters (Gianni
Agnelli, Lee Radziwell,
Princess Grace of Monaco, Gunther Sachs). Famous or
less famous, they all glow with the aura of Warhol’s genius.
In this series, Warhol painted a picture of an
entire society and invented a new form of artistic production – serial and
almost mass produced. In his studio, “The Factory”, Andy Warhol developed a
systematic process in the early 1970s: he made up his models and photographed
them with a Big Shot Polaroid (the Warhol
Museum in Pittsburgh has several hundred of these
photos, some of which will be presented in the exhibition). He carefully
selected the shots, then painted and silk screened
the portraits. (…)
A selection from the thousand or so portraits that
he painted from the early 1960s onwards is here presented by themes focusing
on the key points in Warhol’s work: Self Portraits, Screen Tests, Mao,
Dollars, Disasters, The Last Supper…, which situate
them in a retrospective view of his production.
In 1979, the Whitney
Museum exhibited about
fifty of these paintings, but since then – despite the fact that many of them
have become “icons” – they have not been shown in a single-artist exhibition.
With the aim of recreating the effect of the principle of repetition which
Warhol had in mind when he painted them, the Galeries
Nationales du Grand Palais
is presenting, for the first time, this large set of paintings which
constitutes an unprecedented archive in the history of painting and
photography.
“All my portraits have to be the same size, so
they’ll all fit together and make one big painting called Portraits of
Society. That’s a good idea, isn’t it? Maybe the Metropolitan Museum
would want it someday.”
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For the first time in France
an exceptional collection of works will be brought together evoking the most ancient
Buddhist art, from the central plains of present day Thailand,
from the 6th to the 11th century, as well as its extensions in the north of
the country up until the 13th century.
145 works conserved in the collections of twelve of the principal Thai
national museums, completed by 19 pieces belonging to the Guimet
Museum, illustrating the richness and precision of the iconography of the Dvaravati “kingdom” as well as the stylistic originality
and technical particularities of an art unfamiliar to the general Western
public.
This thematic exhibition - co-produced by the Guimet Museum
and the Rmn - is dedicated to one of the remarkable
periods of Thailand’s
ancient history, from the name of Dvâravatî which
could have indicated a kingdom – or a collection of city-states – comprising
a large part of the territories of modern Thailand.
The exhibition opens onto a collection of works recalling the history
of Dvâravatî and the introduction of Buddhism to Thailand: inscribed coins noting “the
commendable work of a lord of Srî Dvâravatî”, furniture imported from India and Burma,
votive tablets serving to diffuse “good Law” in South-East
Asia, etc. In parallel, two sculptures evoke the Hindu aspect of
the religious traditions of ancient Thailand.
The exhibition is then organised in a thematic way, according to the
diverse places of origin of the works and the resulting multiplicity of
styles and aesthetics.
In the first part are presented the famous Wheels of the Law and the various
elements attached to them (supports gilded with protective or beneficent
motifs).
Two magnificent narrative steles which originate from the outlying regions of
north-west Thailand, within the confines of the area of cultural influence of
Dvâravatî, then give way to an exhaustive selection
of architectural decor in stucco or terracotta which formerly decorated
monuments such as the famous narrative panels illustrating the jâtaka (previous lives of Buddha) coming from Chedi Chula Pathon of Nakhon Pathom, or the
expressive terracottas from the Khu
Bua site.
A third section groups together images of Buddha in
the Dvaravatî style – freestanding sculpture in
stone and bronze – a testimony to the excellence of sculptors around the 7th
to the 9th century.
At the close of the exhibition, some of the greatest masterpieces of
the Haripunchai art – northern kingdom – bring a
brilliant conclusion to the period of pre-Thai art, preparing the way for
later artistic expression by the great kingdoms of classic Siam.
Commissioners
Pierre Baptiste, Curator of the Cultural Heritage
of the South East Asia wing of the Guimet Museum
Thierry Zéphir, Studies Engineer of the Guimet
Museum
Museography
Renaud Piérard, Architect
DPLG
In partnership with
Terre Entière, cultural travel agency
In partnership with Thai Airways
In media partnership with the Monde 2 and
Europe 1
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