Montsoreau Castle - Museum of Contemporary Art

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Château de Montsoreau-Musée d'art contemporain
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Loire side of the Montsoreau castle
Data
place Montsoreau , France Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '56.2 "  N , 0 ° 3' 43.9"  EWorld icon
Art
Museum for contemporary art a . a.
architect unknown
opening April 8, 2016
Number of visitors (annually) 50,000 (2017)
operator
management
Marie-Caroline Chaudruc
Website

The Montsoreau Castle - Museum of Contemporary Art ( French : Château de Montsoreau-Musée d'art contemporain ) is a French museum of contemporary art in the Loire Valley in Montsoreau . The museum , which opened in 2016, is housed in Montsoreau Castle, which was converted for this purpose.

Museum and Collection

The museum's collection focuses on art after 1965 and has its origins in the Philippe Méaille collection . Conceptual art is particularly well represented, including works by international artists. Here is the world's largest collection of Art & Language works.

gallery

  • Art & Language : Art & Language: Art-Language , Vol.3 No. 1, 1974.

  • Art & Language : Mirror Piece , 1965.

  • Art & Language (Michael Baldwin): Air-Conditioning Show , 1966-67.

  • Art & Language: Victorine in Art-Language Vol.5 No.2 (1984), 1983.

  • Art & Language (Mel Ramsden), Secret Painting , 1967.

  • Art & Language: Art-Language Vol.5 No. 1, 1982.

  • Art & Language: Art-Language The Journal of Conceptual Art , Vol.1 Nr.1, 1969.

Exhibitions

  • 2016: Agnès Thurnauer , A History of Painting.
  • 2017: Ettore Sottsass , designer of the world.
  • 2018: Art & Language , Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light).
  • 2018: 1968: Sparta dreams of Athens .
  • 2019: Roman Signer
  • 2019: Charlotte Moorman, Think Crazy .

Publications

  • 2016: Rod Mengham, A trip to Agnès Thurnauer .
  • 2016: Art & Language, interview with Victorine Meurend .
  • 2017: Art & Language, Poster: Almost a Home For Homeless Stuff .
  • 2017: Fabien Vallos, Philippe Méaille , Antonia Birnbaum, Fabrice Hergott, Chloé Maillet, Louise Hervé, Antoine Dufeu, A Constructed World, Protest 1517–2017. ISBN 978-2-9557917-0-7 .
  • 2018: Art & Language, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Art & Language: Reality (dark) fragments (light) , ISBN 978-2-9557917-2-1 .

Web links

Commons : Montsoreau Castle-Museum of Contemporary Art  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philippe Méaille: “It is time we take responsibility and repair the climate and the planet. This is what I call prospective ecology ”- Thrive Global. Retrieved October 23, 2019 (American English).
  2. ^ Uri Bollag: Combining Past, Present and Future: The Contemporary Art Museum at Château de Montsoreau. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ A Historic Conceptual Art Group Has Taken Over a French Château. October 14, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019 (American English).
  4. ^ Karen Chernick: The Collector Who Turned a 15th-Century French Castle into a Contemporary Art Destination. September 20, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Saumurois. Charlotte Moorman “s'installe” pour quatre mois au château-musée de Montsoreau. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .