L’Âge atomique – The Atomic Age

L’Âge atomique – Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire | The Atomic Age Artists put to the test of history

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is inviting visitors to take a new look at the history of modernity in the 20th century via the imaginary world of the
atom. The exhibition is an opportunity to explore the artistic representations sparked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb, whose devastating consequences changed the fate of humanity. Bringing together some 250 works – paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations – as well as documentation that has often been previously unpublished, the exhibition shows, for the first time in a French museum, the widely differing different stances adopted by artists in the face of scientific advances and the controversies they have given rise to.
Dealing with a subject now more topical than ever, the exhibition is in keeping with the museum’s desire to reflect contemporary cultural and social concerns in its programming.
 
DANIEL BLAU has contributed 27 photos from our collection to enrich the exhibition

 
 
 
Exhibition Dates:

11 October 2024 – 9 February 2025
 
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am–6pm
Late closing: Thursday 9:30pm

 
Info:
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
11 Avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Tel. 01 53 67 40 00
www.mam.paris.fr
 

Tickets:
Admission
Full rate: 15€
Concessions: 13€
 

Find more information about tours here
 
Download press release published by the museum here  

L'Âge atomique - Les artistes à l'épreuve de l'histoire | The Atomic Age Artists put to the test of history
Paris Photo 2024

Paris Photo 2024

 

The Brilliance of the Actual View

 
It is easy to overlook, like forgetting the fact of our breathing: nothing is more often photographed than air.
Take that simple observation, though, and expand it, explode it, play with it – and whole new worlds of possibility reveal themselves. For Paris Photo 2024, DANIEL BLAU aims to do exactly that. Air is our theme, its absence, its alteration.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Paris.
 

John Glenn (1921-2016) on Friendship 7, Mercury, Atlas 6 Mission, “Fireflies, Mercury Atlas 6 Mission”, February 20, 1962
John H. Glenn Jr., “Fireflies Outside Friendship 7; First Human-Taken Color Photograph from Space”, February 20, 1962, chromogenic color print on fibre paper, printed in 1962, 28,2 x 34,3 cm © NASA, John H. Glenn Jr., courtesy Daniel Blau, Munich
 
 

PARIS PHOTO
Grand Palais
75007 Paris

 
Booth: B24
 
Fair Dates:

 
Public Opening:
November 7 – 9, 2024
Opening Hours:
1 pm – 8 pm
 
November 10, 2024
Opening Hours:
1 pm – 7 pm

 

 


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