On the occasion of its reopening, the Musée Bourdelle is devoting its most important retrospective in Paris to Philippe Cognée. Held in the building designed by Christian de Portzamparc, the exhibition "Philippe Cognée. La peinture d'après" from March 15 to July 16, 2023 at the Musée Bourdelle, is structured around the Basel Catalogue, a dizzying array of a thousand pieces by the artist. Cognée is a painter, but also a sculptor, who dialogues with his peers, including Antoine Bourdelle, a tutelary figure.
Since the 1980s, Cognée has created unique canvases that, when painted with encaustic and then reworked with an iron, produce blurred, trembling visions. The exhibition will also include some early paintings, showing how optical saturation and the reinvestment of paintings from the past have haunted the artist's work for years.
In addition, the exhibition will include an installation of 1,200 pieces made by the artist from catalog pages from the Art Basel contemporary fair. Between 2003 and 2013, Cognée tore pages apart to make a copy of the work, creating a covering painting that sees the artist painting a pattern that disappears as he copies it and, more importantly, putting a history of forms in his hand.
"La peinture d’après"
- Musée Bourdelle, from March 15 to July 16, 2023
- Musée de l'Orangerie, from March 15 to September 4, 2023
Musée Bourdelle
18, rue Antoine Bourdelle - 75015 Paris
Ph: +33 149 54 73 73
Musée de l'Orangerie
Jardin Tuileries - 75001 Paris
Ph: +33 144 50 43 00
