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Elmgreen & Dragset

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

L'Addition Musée d'Orsay 15 October 2024–2 February 2025 Paris
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The great troublemakers of the contemporary art scene, Elmgreen & Dragset, have been invited to place their poetic sculptures in dialogue with the Musée d’Orsay’s iconic sculpture nave. Their exhibitions always lie at the intersection of performance, space and sculpture.

The presentation they have created specifically for Musée d’Orsay will have the visitor dive into a museum upside down. The artists have conceived a radical architectural intervention entitled “L’Addition”, which is unlike anything the museum has ever shown.

While challenging modes for displaying artworks, the duo will present a series of new figurative sculptures. These works will depict various topics linked to contemporary masculinities in close dialogue with the museum’s historical permanent collection, highlighting the similarities and differences in artistic approaches to figuration.

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About the Artist

Michael Elmgreen (born 1961, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969, Trondheim, Norway) are a Berlin-based artist duo acclaimed for large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations that confront social conventions and transform public and institutional spaces.

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About the Gallery

The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first “work of art” in the Musee d’Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.

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Paris Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Musee dOrsay contemporary art institution in Paris France
Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Paris, France
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
9.30am – 6pm
Closed Monday
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