The summer season of temporary exhibitions has begun. Housed in a building listed as a Historic Monument in the heart of Montauban, less than an hour from Toulouse, the Ingres Bourdelle museum invites all visitors to discover two new temporary exhibitions: one on the work of Ingres and Delacroix and the other on Jean-Michel Othoniel.
A redesigned museum that welcomes the greatest artists
Located 45 minutes from the Ville Rose, the Ingres Bourdelle museum, completely renovated, now covers 2,700 square meters and offers visitors a redesigned museography, as well as new spaces, improved accessibility and several rooms for temporary exhibitions and permanent… A transformation that also took place in the name since the Ingres Museum became the Ingres Bourdelle Museum, thus paying tribute to the two immense artists that the city of Montauban saw the birth of: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Antoine Bourdelle.
And for its 2024 summer season, the building lends its walls to other sacred monsters of the artistic scene: the main representative of 19th century Romanticism Eugène Delacroix and the contemporary Jean-Michel Othoniel.
A joint exhibition entitled "Ingres and Delacroix. Artists' Objects"
"All these objects speak to us in a different way about the two artists, showing their differences but also inducing unexpected connections."
After being installed at the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix in Paris, this exhibition is taking up residence, in a version enriched with around fifty works, at the Musée Ingres Bourdelle in Montauban.
Until November 10, 2024, the museum invites all curious people to enter the world of two of the most famous painters of the 19th century century: Ingres and Delacroix. This new joint exhibition of 173 works explores their lives, their daily lives and their private lives in detail: decorative objects or travel souvenirs, portraits of the two men, their sources of inspiration, but also palettes, brushes, paint boxes and furniture, not to mention musical instruments... Objects and belongings that belonged to them are thus exhibited in this building listed as a Historic Monument.
Jean-Michel Othoniel, central artist of this medieval room from 1369
"This installation responds significantly to the crazy pink brick architectures that are the glory of the Occitan region. A dark and luminous work to warn us against the destructive prince in each of us"
Since 2019, the Ingres Bourdelle Museum has opened the doors of the Salle du Prince Noir, a 14th-century vaulted space, to the contemporary scene. After
Miguel Chevalier in 2019, Georges Rousse in 2021, Speedy Graphito in 2022, and Anne and Patrick Poirier in 2023, it is now the turn of Jean-Michel Othoniel to be in the spotlight from July 11, 2024 to January 5, 2025.
The artist – whose works are held in the world's greatest contemporary art museums, foundations and private collections – has taken advantage of the dramatic history of the place to offer a major achievement where his work on glass bricks, begun more than ten years, takes the form of a monumental architecture. With this remarkable and enchanting work, the latter thus erases the criminal traces, masking the tombs and the impacts of the war that characterize the guard room of the bloodthirsty Black Prince.
