LATEST EVENTS AT THE ART GALLERY
Résidence "Patrimoine et création" #4
Derrière la lumière, la mémoire retrouvéeThierry 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".
# Résonances, le Louvre à la Réunion
L'art du dessin en France durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle
17 Juillet - 15 Octobre 2021
Résonances est une exposition aux ramifications multiples établie dans le cadre d’un partenariat entre le musée du Louvre et les cinq musées bénéficiant du label « Musée de France » à La Réunion.
Dès son ouverture en 1793, le musée du Louvre a été conçu comme un «musée des musées», au service de l’ensemble du territoire. Aujourd'hui encore, le Louvre développe son action sur le territoire national et notamment en Outre-mer. La Réunion a ainsi été retenue pour la qualité de ses musées et des collections.
Résidence "Patrimoine et création" #3
Une installation de Kako
31 octobre 2020 - 4 avril 2021
Dans l’espace du musée transformé en forêt, Piédbwa, l’arbre manifeste est une installation qui invite le public à arpenter des forêts transfigurées et à découvrir ses processus de création mêlant peinture, dessin et sons. Kako nous confronte constamment à la recréation de paysages, voulant nous alerter du choix urgent à faire entre détruire la Nature et protéger le Vivant.
Residency "Heritage and Creation" #2
The Highlands of an islandPhotographs by Morgan Fache
8th November 2019 - 5th April 2020
Housing a rich collection of 19thcentury 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, 19thcentury 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 dayWith an installation by Mathilde Fossy « Dissipating the mist »
27th April - 15th September 2019
On 20th 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 170th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Reunion.
A floating world, dialogue of etchings, Japan-Europe27th October 2018 - 24th 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 17th and 19thcenturies, 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 19thcentury 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 19thcentury.
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, 19thcentury artists and the mountains of Reunion16th September 2017 - 1st 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 18th century, then by the island’s poorer inhabitants in search of land to settle on for their survival in the 19th 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 19th century.
From Manet to Picasso: treasures of the Johannesburg art gallery and the Leon-Dierx art gallery25th November 2016 - 4th June 2017
Unique in this part of the world, the collections of French art from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th 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.