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Program for the Night
The MCBA is showcasing the works in its collection: an offbeat conference on Charles Gleyre's "Major Davel", micro-visits on the work and life of André Tommasini and favorites in the permanent exhibition.
Exhibition(s) 2
André Tommasini. Ein Leben für die Bildhauerei
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Activity(ies) 4
Guided tour
Micro-visites: La collection
12h30, 15h30, 20h00, 22h00 (30m)
La collection - Rendez-vous dans le hall du MCBA
A guide will present her favorites in the MCBA's permanent exhibition.
Conférence
Conférence humoristique: Réinventer Davel
13h00, 18h00, 21h00 (45m)
Rendez-vous dans l'Auditorium du MCBA
Humorous conference by Matthias Urban, actor and director, inspired by the painting by Charles Gleyre, The Execution of Major Davel (1850).
More than 300 years after the death of Major Davel, a key figure in Vaudois history, Matthias Urban returns to a mysterious and little-known episode: why did an individual lock himself in the Palais de Rumine one night in the summer of 1980, before setting fire to the painting? Was he an activist ahead of his time? After a meticulous investigation and a good dose of imagination, a documentary will reveal the whole truth!
The public is then invited to a drawing workshop to reconstruct the missing part of the painting; a participatory act of collective creation and restoration!
By registration (limited places)
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Workshop
Atelier de dessin tout public: Réinventer Davel
13h45, 18h45, 21h45 (75m)
Rendez-vous dans l'Auditorium du MCBA
Drawing workshop for all audiences following Matthias Urban's conference "Reinventing Davel", to reconstruct the missing part of Charles Gleyre's painting, The Execution of Major Davel . A participatory act of collective creation and restoration!
Free and continuous activity from 3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m., from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. and from 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m.
All audiences
Guided tour
Micro-visites: André Tommasini. Une vie à sculpter
15h00, 19h00 (30m)
Espace Focus - Rendez-vous dans le hall du MCBA
Presentation of the life and work of Lausanne sculptor André Tommasini.
The work of André Tommasini (1931-2011) reflects a reflection on the tension between contradictory forms, the organic and the geometric, the full and the empty, constraint and expansion. The exhibition also seeks to reconstruct the specificity of a practice shared between studio sculpture, the realization of public commissions and the production of funerary monuments.
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
A stone's throw from Lausanne station, the future museum remains in the heart of the city, complete with access via public transport and regional and international connections. The site is destined to become a focal point for cultural life in Lausanne. The PLATFORM 10 project will ultimately host three museums: firstly the mcb-a, followed by the Musée de l’Elysée (the canton's photography museum) and mudac (the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts), both scheduled for completion by 2021.
New visitor services
The building’s architecture, the work of EBV – Estudio Barozzi Veiga, is meant to promote the best possible connection between the visitor and the work of art. The choice was made not to vie with the art, but rather to highlight and enhance it through the design. Restaurant, book- and giftshop, auditorium, specialized library, studio for public outreach projects – these tools are meant to help one and all prolong their visit and promote connections and exchanges with others.
As far as the collection goes, MCBA has approximately 10,000 works and its reputation, both national and international, relies on five major collections: the Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748-1810), Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) and Louis Soutter (1871-1942) collections.
The collection’s main focus stretches from the 18th century to post-impressionism, with some beautiful examples of cubism and abstract art of Vaud. The museum’s collection relies on donations from individuals, long-term loans from institutions, and a purchasing policy that tends to complete existing collections while at the same time keeping an eye out for contemporary art, whether local to the Vaud region or international.
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