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Contemporary counterpoint. Vija Celmins
Culture · Wednesday, October 14 · 11:00 · Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries
Free
The contemporary counterpoint honors Vija Celmins, the artist who since the late 1960s has developed a highly precise body of work focused on surfaces: ocean, desert, sky or snow, which she calls “impossible images,” without spatial references, submerging the viewer in infinity.\n\nHer works, made between 1971 and 2000, use different techniques (drawing, painting, printmaking, wood engraving) and play with flatness and illusion.\nPresented in the pronaos and the museum’s contemporary gallery, these pieces dialogue with Monet’s Water Lilies and invite an attentive experience…
