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ADULTS SPECIFIC GROUPS Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed on Mondays. Every day from July 1st • Blind and partially sighted Special opening on July 14th and August 15th. to November 5th at 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5th from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Full price €13 Wednesday, October 18th from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pass Métropole €10.50 • Deaf and hearing-impaired Concession €9.50 Saturday, October 14th from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. PRICES Prior registration required: +33(0)4 6714 8322 or Full price €10 - Pass Métropole €9 contact.museefabremontpellier3m.fr Concession €8 - Family ticket €21 Price €9.50 Free admission: children under age 6 and under 18 for residents of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (on presentation of proof). Tickets are to be collected from the Musée Fabre ticket office, in the reception area. FAMILY VISITS Purchase of an ‘exhibition’ ticket includes entry to the permanent collections and the FRANCIS BACON Department of Decorative Arts during the exhibition period. BACON VS NAUMAN MUSEOBOX 10-16 allows young visitors to explore the exhibition independently, punctuated by creative and immersive stations. ACCESS Tour materials available for hire for €3 at the ticket office. JULY 1st NOV. 5th 2017 Recommended A9 motorway exit: Montpellier Est Follow signs to ‘Centre Historique’ SUMMER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Open to everyone, ages 7 and up Enter Montpellier and follow signs to ‘Le Corum’ BRUCE NAUMAN Recommended car park: Corum THE FREAK C’EST CHIC L’HERBIER MUTANT Tramway & : ‘Comédie’ and ‘Corum’ - Tramway : ‘Corum’ Come discover and explore the Come and create hybrid portraits meaning of facial gestures. From by combining scanning facial expression to disfigurement, a and painting techniques. range of techniques will be covered • Workshop by the day (découpage, collage, painting, drawing, July from 25th to 28th and etc.) and used in combination. August from 16th to 18th, 10 a.m. • Workshop by the week (4 half-days) to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Charles-de-Gaulle N î Let yourself be guided by a selection of works CORUM m e Av. de la Citadelle s Francis Bacon, In Memory Dyer George of Francis and delve into the world of the two artists. 2017. Paris, © ADAGP, Augustin Esslingen picture Collection. © Collection Annita Froehlich, II , 1985. Neon tubing mounted on aluminium monolith. Stuttgart, Froehlich in the Eye Poke Bruce Nauman, Double A free application is available for download from the museum website: www.museefabre.fr and from app stores. A quizz will also help you find out 39, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle 34 000 Montpellier whether you are more like Bacon or Nauman Tel.: +33(0)4 6714 8300 / Fax: +33(0)4 6766 0920 This exhibition has been recognised www.museefabre.fr as being of national interest by the French Ministry of Culture/Directorate General for Heritage/Department of Application developed by Acelys within the framework of a skills donation. French TWO MAJOR EDITORIALS FACE to FACE FIGURES IN CONTEMPORARY Culture is in Montpellier’s 2017 marks an exceptional Francis BACON vs Bruce NAUMAN: two generations of artists whose ART DNA.‘ In 2017, the town will ‘year for the Musée Fabre de oeuvres developed in different artistic contexts. One an English painter thrive as a cultural destina- Montpellier Méditerranée playing with references to pictorial or cinematographic tradition to tion.Freedom, innovation, Métropole, which is celebrating better subvert them with a unique expressionism, the other a major expression of all kinds and our ten years since its reopening. American performance artist using the medium of video then sculpture Mediterranean uniqueness are The event this summer is a and installations, questioning language and the body. our strengths. More than a tour- face-to-face confrontation ist destination, Montpellier is a between two figures of 20th-21st cultural laboratory. This sum- century art – Francis Bacon and mer, the Musée Fabre, a gem of Bruce Nauman – as part of the 5 th a regional museum, is sure to Centre Pompidou’s 40 birthday 2 get the wind of freedom blow- celebrations. Francis BACON ing by hosting this previously (October, 28th 1909, Dublin - April, 28th 1992, Madrid) unseen exhibition, for which it This double event thus cele- An English painter – one of the TWO ARTISTIC th is once again joining forces with brates another collaboration greatest artists of the 20 century – PARALLELS he developed a recognisable style, the Centre Pompidou, on the – after Video, an Art, a History blending cruelty and a sense of tragedy. occasion of its 40th birthday. 1965-2007 (in 2008-2009) – IN FIVE SECTIONS Fuelled by classical art, his brutal ’ between these two cultural oeuvre mangles the human figure in The exhibition brings together sixty or so an era dominated by abstraction. institutions that have become works – paintings, sculptures, videos and so vital to the French museum 1 installations – from several major private Philippe Saurel landscape. 3 and museum collections, plus an extensive President of Montpellier selection from the Centre Pompidou Méditerranée Métropole, ’ Michel Hilaire collections on loan for the occasion of its Mayor of the City of Montpellier General curator of heritage, 40th birthday. Director of Musée Fabre de Bernard Travier Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole The exhibition thus opens up an unusual Vice-president of Montpellier ART AS Méditerranée Métropole dialogue between two artists who come Commissioner for Culture EXPERIENCE face-to-face in an immersive scenographic environment, divided into five sections: In their own way, both artists Frame/Cage; Movement/Animality; Body/ see art as an experience and Fragment; Ring/Rotation and Reflection/ Guest Curator: Cécile Debray express a fascination for the Curator-in-chief of Heritage Portrait. 6 Modern collections - Musée National d’Art Moderne body and its possible distortions Centre Pompidou - Centre de création industrielle and assaults, its placement in a confined space with boundaries Bruce NAUMAN th where freedom is restricted. 4 An exhibition for the Centre Pompidou’s 40 birthday. (December, 6th 1941, Fort Wayne, Indiana) Celebrated as one of the greatest Both push exploration to its living artists by the magazine ArtNews 1 | Francis BACON | In Memory of George Dyer | 1971 | CR 71-09, Oil and dry transfert lettering on canvas. Triptych : each panel 198 x 147.5 x 2.5 cm. Beyeler very limits, plunging viewers Foundation, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection. Photo : Robert Bayer © The Estate of Francis Bacon/ All rights reserved/ Adagp, Paris and DACS, London 2017. and as one of the 100 most influential 2 | Francis BACON | ‘Study after Velázquez’ | 1950 | CR 50-05, Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm. Private collection. Photo : Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. © The into a sensitive experience, figures in the world by Time magazine, Estate of Francis Bacon/ All rights reserved/ Adagp, Paris and DACS, London 2017. 3 | Bruce NAUMAN | Art Make Up | 1967-1968 | Film, 16mm, colour, sound, unreservedly, uncompromisingly. duration 40’, Paris, Centre Pompidou, collection - MNAM - CCI, acquired in 1974, inv. AM 1974 - F0239, © Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York/ Adagp, Bruce Nauman is recognised for Paris, 2017. 4 | Bruce NAUMAN | Anthro/Socio (Rinde Facing Camera) | 1991 | Shot of the exhibition at the Foundation Cartier in Paris in 2015. / Video installation. Potomac, Maryland Museum. Press department/Musée Fabre. Photo Luc Boegly © Bruce Nauman/ Adagp, Paris, 2017. 5 | Photograph by Edward his multifaceted oeuvre, including Quinn, Francis Bacon in his studio, 7 Reece Mews, London, 1979, Courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco, photo © Edward Quinn. 6 | Photograph video art of which he was a by Arthur Mones, Bruce Nauman, 1980, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA, Gift of George Feher, photo © Bridgeman Images. pioneer around the mid-1960s.