Rome

June 20 2010 to September 26 2010

Rome, Italy

Website : www.villamedici.it
Related Sight: Villa Medici - Academy of France in Rome

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From June, 20 to September, 26 2010, the French Academy in Rome Villa Medici will present anexhibition of two great artists: Ellsworth Kelly, born in 1923, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,who was active in the 19th century.

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The exhibition will not try to compare two styles or two formal types, but to understand what work
relationship links this American artist – one of the most important abstract painters in the world, since
the end of the 1940s when he lived in Paris – and the French painter, once director of Villa Medici,
whose work inspired academicism as well as the most innovative of modern art.
The exhibition will present recent works by Ellsworth Kelly, which have never been shown before as
well as a selection of his plants and figures drawings (8 oils and 28 drawings), together with a selection
of Ingres’ drawings and pictures (4 oils and 32 drawings). Ingres’ works have been specifically selected
by Kelly in the collections of the Musée Ingres of Montauban, the Musée du Louvres, the Besançon
Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Musée de Lyon.
As an institution deeply anchored in the past by virtue of its own history and the major artists it has
always welcomed while opening its programs to the future, the French Academy in Rome – Villa
Medici, is the perfect place for such an exhibition, the first in as series of summer exhibitions.