Louvre opens for a musician
Güncelleme Tarihi:
PARIS- For the first time in its history, the Louvre museum Thursday opened its doors to a musician, France's renowned contemporary composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez, giving the classical arthouse a modern touch.
To the French, the 83-year-old supremo of serial, experimental and electronic music born in the central Loire valley is what the Japanese call "a living national treasure", celebrated for his unique contribution to music and to intellectual life since the 1950s.
Scheduled to run until February 9, the show titled "The Louvre Invites Pierre Boulez" gathered together art and music in a medley that includes an exhibition, 11 concerts, six filmed concerts and talks.
'Work: Fragment'
Curated by the maestro himself, the art show titled "Work:Fragment" gathers 70 works by artists such as Ingres, Cezanne, Degas, Delacroix, Kandinsky, Klee, Giacometti and Picasso alongside scores from Wagner, Bartok and Varese and works by writers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
"Modernism is based on the fragment," Boulez said, pointing to a 1952 nude sketch by De Kooning, "while previously this would have been considered a preparory draft."
The sketch, one of a series of "Women", showed "something that hasn't yet taken shape but is on the way," Boulez added.
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