ANSELM KIEFER AU LOUVRE

of PERRéARD Jean-Luc

FRANCE, 2007, 00:26:00

Production : MUSEE DU LOUVRE, MK2TV
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Portrait, Louvre Museum, Art

Summary :
Fifty years after Georges Braque, a contemporary artist designs a new background for the Louvre: Anselm Kiefer has been entrusted with the realization of a work, the Athanor painting, in a staircase of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. Between the museum and the Barjac workshop (Gard), through interviews and conversations with the President of the Louvre Henri Loyrette and the curator of contemporary art, Marie-Laure Bernadac, unfold the functioning of a complex artist and the carrying out of a monumental painting. Anselm Kiefer will also share with us his approach of the Louvre

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