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A President in the King's Palace, De Gaulle in Trianon 8 Versailles and the American War of Independence 10 Parties and Entertainment in the Court of Versailles 11 Major Events in 2016 Press contacts Hélène Dalifard Aurélie Gevrey Elsa Martin Violaine Solari + 33(0)1 30 83 75 21 presse@ch ateauversailles.fr Cover page: Wheel of the carriage from the coronation of Charles X. 1825 © Château de Versailles, C. Fouin Lighting up of the Belvedere and rock pavilions. Claude-Louis Chatelet. 1781 © RMN-GP (Château de Versailles), D. Arnaudet Dufour Pavilion © Château de Versailles, C. Milet Th e Queen's House © Château de Versailles, C. Milet Gilbert Mottier, Marquis de La Fayette. Joseph-Désiré Court. 1834 © RMN-GP(Château de Versailles), Rights reserved 3 Contents Exhibitions 5 Olafur Eliasson versailles 6 a President in the king's palace, De Gaulle in Trianon 8 Versailles and the American War of Independence 10 Parties and entertainment in the court of Versailles 11 Exterior exhibitions 13 Angers: the taste for finery. Portraits from the Palace of Versailles 14 tokyo : Marie antoinette 15 Canberra : VErSAILLES : TrEASUrES OF THE PALACE 16 Events 19 A new reception area for the public: the Dufour Pavilion 20 Opening of the Coaches Gallery 22 Modifications to visit routes 24 major Works 27 On the estate 28 In the palace 32 château de Versailles spectacles 35 Versailles inspires 41 A numbered, limited edition Guerlain perfume 42 Arthus-Bertrand creates a collection of medallions 43 Practical information 45 Part I Exhibitions 6 Part I — Exhibitions Olafur Eliasson Versailles 7 June - 30 october Every time a season of contemporary art at Versailles comes around, we once again experience the myst erious, exhilarating meeting of artist and site. Olafur Eliasson’s mind is in perpetual motion, but he is sp aring with his words and gest ures. His ideas are abundant and ever-ch anging, his act ions precise, measured. He st rode around the grounds of Versailles, fi nding insp iration here, only to abandon the idea, imagining a work there, later deciding the sp ot was not entirely suitable. He returned several times before deciding on the places that would hold his attention in the long term, st opping to examine a detail on a sculpture in a forgotten corner of a drawing room. He even © Olafur Eliasson wanted to wander alone at night through the ch âteau, experiencing emotions and impressions which in themselves form a unique relationship with the inexhaust ible myst eries of the Versailles est ate. Did he at times allow himself to be overwhelmed by the continuous sequence of images, which Curator build up into excess or accumulation ? If he did, he never seemed out of his depth. It is too easy to think that Scandinavian men are cold and unemotional. Olafur Eliasson admitted at the end of one Alfred Pacquement visit that even if the process were to come to an end there and then, without an exhibition being born from it, he would already have experienced something truly unique. However, he then Press contacts meticulously ch ose a few points which , from then on, would be his, and would be used to lead us along with him on his explorations, or take us further into our possession of these places. Without Opus 64 a trace of either apprehension or pomposity, just a series of works to ch ange our perception of Valérie Samuel et Arnaud Pain Versailles, sharpening it, accentuating it. 52 rue de l'Arbre Sec 75001 Paris Metaphors of water, diff ract ion of light, confusion of mirrors, intensifi ed emotions, moving + 33 (0)1 40 26 77 94 shadows : Olafur Eliasson wants the visitor to take possession of Versailles alongside him. And it is [email protected] an augmented reality that imposes itself, an engine room of the imagination, and one not so fundamentally far away from that which captured the hearts of the 18th century. Catherine Pégard President of the public Est ablishment of the palace, museum and national est ate of Versailles SINCE 2008 , the Palace of Versailles organizes each year an exhibition dedicated to a non French or a foreign artist . Jeff Koons in 2008, Xavier Veilhan in 2009, Takashi Murakami in 2010, Bernar Venet in 2011, Joana Vasconcelos in 2012, Giuseppe Penone in 2013, Lee Ufan in 2014 and Anish Kapoor in 2015 : these all artist s have est ablished a dialogue between their works and the Palace and Gardens of Versailles. Since 2013, Alfred Pacquement is curator of this exhibition. 7 Historically, the royal court at Versailles was a place of const ant observation – of oneself and of others ; the st rict social norms of the time were enforced through a web of gazes. Th e Baroque arch itect ure of the palace served to heighten visibility, becoming a st unning inst rument of power held exclusively by the king. Today, however, we look at Versailles diff erently, and when I visit the site, I ask myself : how do you, the visitor, view this iconic site ? What does it do to you ? Have we all become king ? The Versailles that I have been dreaming up is a place that empowers everyone. It invites visitors to take control of the authorship of their experience inst ead of simply consuming and being dazzled by the grandeur. It asks them to exercise their senses, to embrace the unexpect ed, to drift through the gardens, and to feel the landscape take shape through their movement. For my exhibition this summer, I am doing a series of subtle sp atial interventions inside the palace deploying mirrors and light, and in the gardens, I use fog and water to amplify the feelings of impermanence and transformation. Th e artworks liquefy the formal design of the gardens while reviving one of landscape arch itect André Le Nôtre’s original, unrealised visions : the placement of a waterfall along the axis of the Grand Canal. Th is waterfall reinvigorates the engineering ingenuity of the past . It is as const ruct ed as the court was, and I’ve left the const ruct ion open for all to see – a seemingly foreign element that expands the scope of human imagination. Olafur Eliasson Grande Persp ect ive / Grand Canal © ch âteau de Versailles, Didier Saulnier 8 Part I — Exhibitions A president in the king's palace, De Gaulle in Trianon 18 junE - 9 novembeR, grand Trianon, Trianon-sous-bois To mark 50 years since the restoration of the Grand Trianon in 1966, and following the success of the exhibition titled The Grand Trianon, from Louis XIV to Charles de Gaulle in 2015, a new exhibition will showcase the Grand Trianon as a Palace of the French Republic during the presidency of General de Gaulle. In 1963, upon the initiative of André Malraux, General de Gaulle decided to fully rest ore, refurnish and renovate the Grand Trianon to turn it into a presidential home. Major modernisation work was carried out between January 1963 and June 1966 in order to receive foreign heads of State on offi cial visits and host them in a setting worthy of the sp lendour of France. The Trianon-sous-Bois wing was fully refurnished in the Imperial st yle and was turned into a private sp ace for living and working reserved for the President of the French Republic, while foreign heads of State were accommodated in the opposite wing of the building. Guest s were received in the large rooms in Trianon and in the Cotelle General De Gaulle and André Gallery. Malraux in the mexican exhibition in Petit Palais, Paris 1962 Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) Since the beginning of the Fifth French Republic © RMN Gest ion droit d'auteur / various famous guest s have been welcomed in Fonds MCC / IMEC the Grand Trianon, including the American President Rich ard Nixon in 1969, Elizabeth II Queen of Photo © Centre George Pompidou MNAMCCI, Dist RMN Grand Palais England in 1972, President of Russia Boris Yeltsin in 1992, and, more recently in 2014, Xi Jinping, the / Gisèle Freund, reproduct ion de Guy Carraud. President of the People's Republic of China, during his offi cial visit to France. Curators Jean-Jacques Gauthier Insp ect or of Collect ions at the Mobilier National Karine Mc Grath Head of Arch ives at the Palace of Versailles assist ed by Marie-France Noël Honorary Research Engineer and Marie-Amélie Th araud Heritage Curator - Insp ect or of Collect ions at Wing of Trianon-sous-Bois, Grand Trianon the Mobilier National © ch âteau de Versailles, C. Millet 9 The exhibition will propose to bring back to life this decisive yet unfamiliar period in the hist ory of the Grand Trianon. Visitors will discover what went on behind the scenes at the time of General de Gaulle's decision, and follow the execution of this huge rest oration and renovation project , st arted in 1963 and led by Marc Saltet (Head Arch itect and Curator at the Est ate of Versailles), Gérald Van Der Kemp (Head Curator at the Est ate of Versailles), Jean Coural (Administ rator at the Mobilier National) and Serge Royaux Table of lunch given for the prince (Decorator at the Mobilier National). Part of the exhibition Philip, duke of Edimbourg in the will also be given over to the perception of the arrival of the Presidency of the Republic in Trianon in Mirrors Salon in Grand Trianon 20th december 1966. the public and political sp heres. Last ly, visitors will discover the ins and outs of the organisation © ch âteau de Versailles (dist RMN- Grand Palais) process for the four offi cial visits which took place during General de Gaulle's presidency. Arch ive documents, some of which have never been disp layed before, including cabinet notes, sp eech es, press cuttings and arch itect s' sketch es, as well as videos and photographs will plunge visitors into the buzzing world of the Grand Trianon in the 1960s.
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