PRESS RELEASE 13 June 2019

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Louvre Abu Dhabi announces Abu Dhabi, 13 June 2019: Louvre Abu Dhabi’s 2019/20 season will launch in September four major exhibitions for its and includes four exhibitions to explore how the arts have forthcoming Season: ‘Changing channelled and acted as a witness to society throughout history, as well as an accompanying programme that includes live Societies’ performances, world-renowned installations, music, poetry and family events. • Rendezvous in : Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939), in partnership with Centre Commenting on the new season announcement, Manuel Pompidou; Rabaté, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi, stated: “Our new and • 10,000 Years Of Luxury in partnership with Musée exciting season is designed to pioneer different ways to engage des Arts Décoratifs; the museum’s diverse audiences, offering them innovative • Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East and experiences and a deeper understanding of the universal themes West, in partnership with Musée de Cluny – Musée presented in our permanent galleries. This upcoming season national du Moyen Âge; entitled Changing Societies represents our boldest and most • Charlie Chaplin: When Art Met Cinema, in extensive programme to date. Supported by our incredible partnership with Musée d’arts de Nantes. network of international partners, we are able to bring • Alongside Louvre Abu Dhabi’s upcoming exhibitions exhibitions of a quality and scale that are unparalleled in the and public programme for its 2019/2020 Season, the region.’’ museum’s permanent galleries will showcase new masterpieces as a part of its annual rotation of loans, Dr. Souraya Noujaim, Scientific, Curatorial and Collections including a major installation by contemporary artist Management Director, Louvre Abu Dhabi, added: “Louvre Abu Susanna Fritscher Dhabi’s cultural seasons offer an opportunity to further explore key historical and aesthetic episodes in history from our unique Universal perspective, often re-examining the ways in which mutual discovery and appreciation have always informed human history. In Changing Societies, our main objective is to shed light on how culture and creativity have acted as a manifestation of shifts and changes in society and civilisations.”

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Manuel Rabaté, Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) exhibition - Amedeo MODIGLIANI, 1884, Livourne (Italie) - 1920, exhibition - Juan GRIS (Jose Victoriano GONZALES PEREZ), Man from Paris (France), Portrait of Dédie, 1918, Oil on Canvas © Service de la Touraine, September 1918, Oil on Canvas, © Jean-François Tomasian documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Pompidou, - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP A Costume Adventure, a new interactive Louvre Abu Dhabi’s 2019/20 the poetry of Jean Cocteau and Guillaume space in Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Children’s international exhibitions include: Apollinaire, the exhibition will launch with Museum opening on 9 July 2019, will an exciting cultural programme as Cubism enable the museum’s youngest art For the first time in the Middle East, is brought to life across the museum. enthusiasts to dive into the wardrobes of Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, history and learn about the costumes of Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939) Between 18-21 September, visitors will be characters found in some of the (September 18, 2019 – December 7, able to encounter ‘living machines’ which museum’s artworks. 2019), held in partnership with Centre will roam the museum; and be amazed by Pompidou, will allow visitors to discover choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her Louvre Abu Dhabi’s public programme for the Paris of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ – a STREB Extreme Action Troupe who will the season introduces a thematic, line-up Bohemian hub for artists from across combine acrobatics, circus arts and curated by Ruth Mackenzie, CBE, Artistic Europe, many of whom left their home contemporary dance to give a spectacular Director Theatre du Chatelet and countries in search of a place where they performance on giant machines. formerly Artistic Director of Holland could truly and safely express themselves. Festival and 2012 Festival (the Inspired by the city, this group of artists Other highlights include a September official cultural programme for the came together at a moment of Family Weekend on 27-28 September London Olympic Games) who said: extraordinary creativity to produce some with workshops inspired by Picasso and “Louvre Abu Dhabi is an internationally of the most innovative art of the 20th Cocteau. The programme also includes a renowned project, redefining the role of century. Presenting more than 80 works, series of film screenings curated by museums through engagement with local which are being exhibited for the first Emirati artist Hind Mezaina and a talk by and international artists and time in the Middle East, the exhibition will the exhibition curator, Christian Briend. communities. I am honoured to be given include masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, the chance to work in one of the most Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Sonia The cultural programme around the fascinating regions in the world to create Delaunay, Giorgio De Chirico, Juan Gris, exhibition will conclude with an electro- a programme inspired by Louvre Abu Constantin Brancusi, Tamara de night hosted with Abu Dhabi label Boogie Dhabi’s season Changing Societies. Our Lempicka, Brassaï and others. Organised Box on 21 November, with live sets from starting point for the programming, from by Louvre Abu Dhabi, Centre Pompidou UAE-based and legendary international Intangible Heritage through to a Digital and Agence France-Muséums, the DJs playing on cubism-inspired visuals Future, allows us to develop our own exhibition is curated by Christian Briend, lighting the facades and the iconic dome creativity by working with traditional and Head Curator, Modern Art Collection, of the museum. Amon Tobin and his Two contemporary artists in the museum and Centre Pompidou, assisted by Anna Fingers DJ Set, Molecule Live and Boogie online, celebrating shared intangible Hiddleston, Assistant Curator, Modern Box DJs, Hassan Alwan and Tristan Girault heritages and the innovation of our Art, Centre Pompidou. will perform in the open air under Louvre contemporary cultures. The programme is Abu Dhabi’s dome. for everyone but we are especially keen Programming: to work with local audiences and with young people from around the world.” Inspired by Picasso’s Cubist artworks and

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10,000 Years of Luxury (October 30, between excess and moderation as well the great divas and Fairuz 2019 – February 15, 2020) as notions of what elevates an object to as well as exploring the idea of the diva the realm of precious - be it time, today. The programme exemplifies a Another ground-breaking exhibition in craftsmanship, or rarity. Drawing on the constant concept in the history of luxury, the Middle East, 10,000 Years of Luxury, collections of Musée des Arts Décoratifs with the Diva as an objectified example of will, for the first time in the region, and other French museums, this an intangible heritage form which moves explore the history of luxury. Featuring exhibition offers a rare chance to through history from the exclusive world 350 extraordinary objects from the fields glimpse, revel in, and evaluate true of the elite to the contemporary world of of fashion, jewellery, art, furniture and luxury. Organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi, digital access and mass consumption. design, the show will look at the various Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Agence ways luxury has been interpreted by France-Muséums, the exhibition is Alongside the exhibition 10,000 Years of diverse cultures throughout history: from curated by Olivier Gabet, Director of Luxury, Louvre Abu Dhabi presents the extravagant offerings for the divine, to Musée des Arts Décoratifs. olfactory art installation; USO - The golden furniture fit for royalty and the Perfumed Cloud (USO = Unidentified iconic couture of fashion houses and Programming: Scented Object) from 30 October to 1 virtuoso objects of luxury houses, as February 2020, created by Maison Christian Dior, Chanel, Cartier, Balenciaga Inspired by this exhibition, Louvre Abu Cartier’s in-house perfumer Mathilde and Hermès. The exhibition shows how Dhabi will work with performers and Laurent with Transsolar different cultures have defined luxury artists to create priceless experiences KlimaEngineering. Continuing the and the impact of such excess on the with the theme ‘luxuries are what money museum’s mission to offer innovative evolution of society, as a way to can’t buy’. Part of this will celebrate the experiences, this installation offers a undermine or underline the status quo. It place of the Diva in the history of popular magical sensory journey into a perfumed explores the prominent role of through concerts led by local and cloud. defining luxury, the ebb and flow international singers offering tributes to

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Dr. Souraya Noujaim, Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management Director, Louvre Abu Dhabi

Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East and West (February 19, 2020 – May 30, 2020) exhibition Sword of Duke of Milan, Milan, Italia, second half of the 15th century, Iron, gilded steel, horn, H.113 W.14.7 cm, France, Paris, Musée de Cluny, Cl. 11821 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen-Âge) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Step into a transparent glass cube over Cluny – Musée national du MoyenÂge; Surrealism and Dadaism. Featuring water and under the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s and Co-Curators Dr. Carine Juvin, Curator around 100 paintings, drawings, spectacular dome, climb the spiral stairs of Department of Islamic Art, Musée du sculptures, photographs, archives and and feel the change in Louvre and Michel Huynh, Head Curator, film scenes, the exhibition reveals the temperature as you ascend to Musée de Cluny – Musée national du relationship between Chaplin’s work and a floating scented cloud. MoyenÂge. those of his contemporaries who constantly addressed, each in their own The first ever immersive installation of its Programming: way, the rapidly changing world of the kind in the Middle East, USO first half of the twentieth century. The combines ethereal architecture, the A cultural programme inspired by and exhibition is organised by Louvre Abu senses and climate technology. exploring the Middle Ages from an Dhabi, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and inherently Islamic point of view will Agence France-Muséums and is curated Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between include Trio Joubran, performers by Claire Lebossé, Curator of the East and West (February 19, 2020 – May celebrating the ancient cross cultural collections of modern art, Musée d’arts 30, 2020) family of Lute-like string instruments de Nantes, France. with music dating from the Middle Ages The exhibition explores a unique and as well as contemporary compositions. Programming: extraordinary link, where furusiyya in the Immersive, family-focused events allow East meets Chivalry in the West, and how visitors to travel back in time and The cultural programme exploring the these distinct practices of combat and experience the lifestyle of this period in connection between art and cinema knightly values led to a specific social history, from traditional music, poetry investigates how practitioners in the class and culture in the Islamic East and and clothes, live performances of visual and performing arts have used largely Christian West. Tales of knightly traditional instruments, conferences, silent film as a source of inspiration. The culture have been told throughout activations and more. museum will mark the exhibition opening history – of brave heroes fighting for with a subtle blend of art, comedy, their sovereign, their religion and their Charlie Chaplin: When Art Met Cinema circus, dance, classical music and honour; stories of war, loss, comradery (April 15, 2020 – July 11, 2020) philosophy based on the question of and courtly love, are told through 130 time. A highlight will be Yoann Bourgeois rare artworks, most of them seen in the Discover the connection between the and his short, poetic mime art region for the first time. The exhibition is great Charlie Chaplin films and the performances that are a tribute to organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi, Musée artistic creations of avant-garde artists of Charlie Chaplin, revisiting concepts of de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen- the time, including Marc Chagall, time, the absurd and contemplation. Âge and Agence France-Muséums and is Fernand Léger and František Kupka, curated by Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye, artists at the centre of modern art Director and Head Curator of Musée de movements such as Constructivism,

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In the Galleries – from September Fontainebleau, Paul Petrovith Cabaret Musée du quai Branly-. A (France, 1773) on loan from Cité de la large sculpture, Untitled by Anish Kapoor As a part of Louvre Abu Dhabi’s annual céramique – Sèvres, Chinese imperial (2008), and Max Ernst’s Ubu Imperator rotation, new masterpieces from the jades from the Qianlong era (imperial (1923), both on loan from the Centre museum’s international partners will go seal, scepter Ruyi, two inscribed plates) Pompidou, will also be on display. In the on show in the permanent galleries. on loan from Musée national des arts final gallery, Louvre Abu Dhabi will Highlights of archaeological artefacts asiatiques – Guimet and finally Elisabeth- showcase an immersive installation by include the depiction of the People’s Louise Vigée-Le Brun’s Portrait of contemporary artist Susanna Fritscher, subject to the King of on the base Countess Skavronskaia (1761-1829), Lady entitled Für die Luft; on loan from Centre of a statue of Nectanebo II (358-341 of Honor of Catherine II, Empress of Pompidou and created specifically for BCE), the Head of a chevalier in armour Russia on loan from musée du Louvre. Louvre Abu Dhabi’s unique architecture (ca. 1300 CE) from France as well as an and the natural play of light that Emesus vase from the end of the 6th A major rehang of the final galleries will pervades the room. century to the beginning of the 7th feature a section of faces dedicated to century CE , all on loan from Musée the ‘gaze’ and most importantly, the du Louvre. Following its unveiling in perspectives of people from traditional Louvre Abu Dhabi’s international societies from all over the world. exhibition Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Reflecting on the transition of art once Dutch Golden Age, the museum’s being a snapshot of society and collected acquisition, Rembrandt’s Head of a by scholars and individuals who created Young Man, with Clasped Hands: Study of the first ethnological museums, it will the Figure of Christ, from ca. 1648-56, explore the transition of aesthetics will be installed in the permanent moving to a function as art for the sake galleries related to the early modern of ‘art’. The scenography for this new period, alongside the portrait of Francis installation will be executed by Jean the First, King of France (1539 CE) by Nouvel. Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), on loan from Musée du Louvre, and an Imperial New to the modern and contemporary armour from 18th century China, on loan galleries of the museum will be Édouard from Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Other Manet’s well-known portrait of Berthe major loans for the early modern period Morisot with bouquet of violets (1872) include Francesco Primaticcio’s Laoccon from the Musée d’Orsay and a dance (c.1504-1570) on loan from Château de mask from Central Africa (c. 1970), from

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As part of the regular programming, the museum continues to offer a range of activities and programmes to explore in new ways, the museum, its collection, and its exhibitions. These include guided tours, workshops (as well as interactive digital workshops), digital commissions, master classes, conferences and talks, film screenings, family weekends, and also architectural kayaking tours.

Entrance to the exhibitions and the Children’s Museum is free with the museum’s admission ticket (AED 63). Admission is free for children under the age of 13.

For more information on the exhibition or ticket bookings, please visit www.louvreabudhabi.ae or call Louvre Abu Dhabi at +971 600 56 55 66.

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