Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art

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Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
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View from the Loire of the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art is located in France
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
Location within France
EstablishedJune 25, 2015; 6 years ago (2015-06-25)
LocationMontsoreau, France
Coordinates47°12′56″N 0°03′44″E / 47.2156°N 0.0622°E / 47.2156; 0.0622Coordinates: 47°12′56″N 0°03′44″E / 47.2156°N 0.0622°E / 47.2156; 0.0622
TypeContemporary art museum
CollectionsArt & Language
Collection size1,000
Visitors35,000 (2016)
FounderPhilippe Méaille
WebsiteOfficial website

The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, situated in the Loire valley, is a private museum open to the public.[1] The project was initiated in November 2014,[2][3] and was inaugurated the 8 of April 2016.[4] The permanent collection exhibited at Château de Montsoreau consists of Philippe Méaille's collection of works by the conceptual art collective Art & Language.[5][6][7][8] The museum has also lent works from their collection including a long-term loan from 2014–2015 to the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA).[9][10][11][12]

The Château is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[citation needed]

History[]

Art & Language, Art-Language Vol. 3 Nr. 1, 1974, Collection Philippe Méaille.

The first long-term loan of the museum was for a retrospective exhibition Art & Language Uncompleted: The Philippe Méaille Collection in October 2014.[13] A catalog was produced with artists of Art & Language (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden), chief curator of MACBA Carles Guerra and art historian Matthew Jesse Jackson.

Philippe Méaille, who lives in Anjou, worked with Christian Gillet, the president of the department of Maine-et-Loire, to study the possibility of creating a museum of contemporary art in Anjou, and to install his collection in the château de Montsoreau, a departmental property.[14] On June 19, 2015, Christian Gillet, president of the department of Maine-et-Loire the keys of the Château de Montsoreau to Philippe Méaille according to a 25 year lease.[15][16] Máille has stated that contemporary art is a cultural and touristic priority for the development of Maine-et-Loire.[17]

Restoration works[]

Limewash, which is extremely degraded, has been recovered with traditional lime-blossom. These whitewashes, common in châteaux of the Loire Valley, have the virtue of installing a constant hygrometry.[18]

During the redevelopment of a former storage room, the masons discovered a chimney dating from about 1450. This chimney is currently being studied in collaboration with the bâtiments de France to be restored.[citation needed]

A library on the history of art, contemporary creation and applied arts opened in August 2016. The château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art port reopened at the end of May 2017 after several months of work, to allow its visitors to arrive by boat.[19]

After the renovations, the Château has a total 2,000 square meters of exhibition space.[citation needed]

Architecture[]

Since more than a thousand years, the castle of Montsoreau is the gate of Anjou; it is the only Château de la Loire that is a museum of contemporary art. Historically built by one of the ambassadors of Charles VII King of France, [20] is the first of Kingdom's Lords, with Jacques Cœur to install the Italian Renaissance in France. He built the Château de Montsoreau between 1443 and 1453,[21] directly by the side of the Loire, like Venetian palaces built during the same period.[22]

Collection[]

The Philippe Méaille collection, which constitutes the collection of the museum,[23] is installed on the first two floors of the museum.[24] It is composed exclusively of works by the artists group Art & Language.[25] Founded in 1968, Art & Language – which takes its name from the eponymous newspaper Art-Language[26] – is made up of British, American and Australian artists.[27] The collective is still active and currently represented by Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden.[26]

Between 1965 and now, up to fifty artists have joined or collaborated with Art & Language, including: Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, Charles Harrison, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Philip Pilkington, Mel Ramsden, Dave Rushton, Lynn Lemaster, Mayo Thompson, Kathryn Bigelow,[28] Dan Graham[29] and Lawrence Weiner. In 1977, when Mayo Thompson, leader of the band The Red Krayola left the collective, it was composed of Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, manuscripts, tapuscrits, installations and videos. Carles Guerra said of it: "besides being affected by the artists' attitude, The collection is further affected by the archaeological perspective with which it was assembled."[30]

Gallery[]

  • Art & Language: Art & Language: Art-Language, Vol.3 Nr.1, 1974.

  • Art & Language: Mirror Piece, 1965.

  • Art & Language (Michael Baldwin): Air-Conditioning Show, 1966-67.

  • Art & Language: Victorine in Art-Language Vol.5 Nr.2 (1984), 1983.

  • Art & Language (Mel Ramsden), Secret Painting, 1967.

  • Art & Language: Art-Language Vol.5 Nr.1, 1982.

  • Art & Language: Art-Language The Journal of Conceptual Art, Vol.1 Nr.1, 1969.

Temporary exhibitions[]

Events[]

François Morellet Prize[]

The museum collaborates with the National days of Books and Wine in Saumur, to award an art writer with the François Morellet prize.

Miriam Rothschild Gardens[]

In 2017, the gardens of the castle, located on the banks of the Loire have been transformed into wild gardens.[44] On more than one hectare, the garden represents freedom and biodiversity. Miriam Rothschild (1908–2005), a scientific researcher created the "natural" gardens. Its Ashton Wold property, located in the north of London, was a laboratory for conducting environmental experiments and creating these "wild gardens". The wild garden favors native plants and preserves the surrounding fauna to propose a balance between fauna and flora.[45][46]

Publications[]

  • 2016:  [fr], Un tour chez Agnès Thurnauer.
  • 2016: Art & Language, Entretien avec Victorine Meurend.
  • 2017: Art & Language, Affiche: Almost a Home for Homeless Stuff.
  • 2017: , Philippe Méaille, , , Chloé Maillet, Louise Hervé, Antoine Dufeu, , Protest 1517-2017.ISBN 978-2-9557917-0-7
  • 2018: Art & Language, , Art & Language Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light).ISBN 978-2-9557917-2-1

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