LATEST EVENTS AT THE ART GALLERY

Derrière la lumière, la mémoire retrouvée

Thierry Fontaine
Tiéri Rivière
Abel Técher

27 novembre 2021 - 3 avril 2022

Trois artistes réunionnais, Thierry Fontaine, Tiéri Rivière et Abel Técher exposent la restitution de leur résidence au musée en 2021 dans le cadre du programme départemental "Patrimoine et création # 4". 

Residency "Heritage and Creation" #2 

The Highlands of an island

Photographs by Morgan Fache

8th November 2019 - 5th April 2020

Housing a rich collection of 19^thcentury landscapes and portraits, for more than two years, the Leon-Dierx art gallery has been presenting works that depict the mountain areas of the island through its exhibitions Au cœur d’une île, les artistes et les Hauts de La Réunion au XIXe siècle en 2017 (At the heart of an island, 19^thcentury artists and the mountain areas of Reunion in 2017), Traces fantômes (Ghostly tracks) and Un peu de bleu dans le paysage (A little blue in the landscape) with the painters Charly Lesquelin and Charles Prime (Residency « Heritage and Creation » #1). Les Hauts d’une l’île (The highlands of an island) is the third element of the program.

Abolition day

With an installation by Mathilde Fossy « Dissipating the mist » 

27^th April - 15^th September 2019

On 20^th December 1848, over 60 000 slaves were freed following the speech given by the Commissioner of the French Republic Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga on the ‘Place du Gouvernement’ square in Saint-Denis.  The artist Alphonse Garreau, who had settled on the island during this period, later produced a painting recalling the event and today bearing the title of "Allegory of the abolition of slavery in Reunion". An exhibition held to commemorate the 170^th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Reunion. 

A floating world, dialogue of etchings, Japan-Europe 

27^th October 2018 - 24^th March 2019

For the second time, the Leon-Dierx art gallery exhibited works from the Johannesburg art gallery for an original presentation focusing on Japanese etchings. The collection from the South African art gallery presented the evolution of the art of engraving between the 17^th and 19^thcenturies, as well as the development of the main topics treated by the masters of Japanese etchings during this period. At the same time, a selection of engravings and lithographs by late 19^thcentury European artists, present in the collections of the two art galleries, demonstrated the important influence of Japan on the art of etchings in the western world during the second half of the 19^thcentury.

Résidence "Patrimoine et création" #1 

Traces fantômes / Un peu de bleu dans le paysage

Oeuvres de Charly Lesquelin / Oeuvres de Charles Prime

18 mai - 26 août 2018

Dans le cadre de leurs résidences au musée Léon Dierx, les plasticiens Charles Prime et Charly Lesquelin ont mené des recherches sur le paysage, puisant leur inspiration dans les collections historiques du musée et celles des Archives départementales de La Réunion. 

At the heart of an island, 19^thcentury artists and the mountains of Reunion 

16^th September 2017 - 1^st April 2018

Over 150 drawings, engravings, watercolours, paintings and photographs present a panorama of visual representations of the cirques, the high plateaus and the Piton de La Fournaise volcano.  Initially settled by runaway slaves in the 18^th century, then by the island’s poorer inhabitants in search of land to settle on for their survival in the 19^th century, these areas have marked the psychology of the island since its discovery. Pictorial representations of the interior of the island appeared very late on, but increased in number during the 19^th century.

From Manet to Picasso: treasures of the Johannesburg art gallery and the Leon-Dierx art gallery 

 25^th November 2016 - 4^th June 2017

Unique in this part of the world, the collections of French art from the second half of the 19^th century and the early 20^th century housed in the Leon-Dierx art gallery (Reunion) and the Johannesburg art gallery (South Africa) were brought together for the first time! From Edouard Manet to Pablo Picasso and including Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Auguste Rodin, the exhibition enabled visitors to discover over 200 masterpieces from these two exceptional collections.