Jean-Hubert Martin
Conference organised by the Friends of the Nouveau Printemps
Auditorium
Free entrance
"The decompartmentalisation of museums, which consists in freeing themselves from the historical and geographical categories of art history, is not a passing fad, but a fundamental trend. A public of art lovers, tired of personal exhibitions by superhero artists, is delighted to discover little-known works presented in an order that appeals more to the senses than to knowledge. Today, knowledge is so much easier to access than it used to be. We should go to a museum like we go to a concert: to enjoy ourselves, not to learn about the history of music. What's more, wouldn't museums that appeal primarily to the senses succeed in attracting a new audience, instead of infantilising them by demonstrating their lack of knowledge, which would be the only way to get pleasure?" Jean-Hubert Martin, 1 January 2024
Jean-Hubert Martin, Honorary Director of the Musée national d'art moderne, is the author of a number of landmark exhibitions in France and internationally, including Magiciens de la Terre in 1989, presented simultaneously at the Musée national d'art moderne Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle de la Villette, and Autels - l'art de s'agenouiller at the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf in 2001, Artempo at the Palazzo Fortuny during the Venice Biennale in 2007 and Une image peut en cacher une autre at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in 2009. He has also curated the exhibition Theater of the world at La maison rouge in 2013, Monumenta 2014 at the Grand Palais, where Ilya and Emilia Kabakov were the guest artists, and the exhibitions Dali et la double image at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in 2016. More recently, he has curated the exhibitions Drôles de convergences at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 2021 and Pas besoin d'un dessin at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève in 2022. In 2013, he published L'art au large (Flammarion), a collection of essays explaining his curatorial practice, which has sought to break down the conventional categories prevalent in art history and interpret works by combining them in specific spaces so that they make sense.
Admission is free and open to all.
Conference organised by Les Amis du Nouveau Printemps-Toulouse with the support of Les Abattoirs, Musée -Frac Occitanie Toulouse