Parallely to the exhibition on “Family photoalbums”, the Niépce Museum is also showing from June 18th until September 18th “Abolishing the myths, French photography (1970-2000) in its collections of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP).

This first exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Niépce Museum and the CNAP. The latter is in fact putting in their depot, for five years, 92 works chosen from the collection to be used in future exhibitions. French creation from 1970 to 2000 is being put into question, via the works of : Jean-Marc Bustamante, Sophie Calle, Patrick Faigenbaum, Jean-Louis Garnell, Jean Le Gac, Joachim Mogarra, Jean-Luc Moulène, Marc Pataut, Sophie Ristelhueber, Eric Rondepierre and Patrick Tosani.

An important period where, above and beyond the invasive modes and superficial currents, photography is considered as a “production tool” for artistic images.

Traditions rejected, these photographers try to redefine this “object always unthought of: photography,” its mystic of beauty, its certitudes of truth. To show in the best way “the insignificant contradictions of the world all the while questionning its place in the universe of representations.”

For François Cheval, co-curator of this exhibition along with Pascal Beausse (director of photography collections of CNAP), the French scene of the 1970s “is the time when a creative power emmerged that was for too long underestimated.”

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Abolir les mythes, la photographie française (1970-2000)
(Abolishing the Myths, French Photography (1970-2000)
in the collections of the Centre national des Arts Plastiques.

18 June – 18 September
Musée Nicéphore Niépce
28 quai des Messageries
71100 Chalon – sur – Saône
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contact@museeniepce.com
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