Two exhibitions are featuring the work of Sari Dienes
To Be Deciphered:
Following the traces in the collections
https://mamc.saint-etienne-metropole.fr/en/exhibition/be-deciphered
Sari Dienes: Frizz Head 1956
Sari Dienes: Big Square 1956
The Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole houses a collection of nearly 23,000 works, presented through thematic installations that are renewed approximately once a year.
Art history is a field grounded in interpretation, whose methods continue to evolve over time and through dialogue with other disciplines. When encountering a work of art, viewers read forms and colors in order to construct meaning. The art museum thus becomes a space of inquiry, where visitors, consciously or not, engage in the decoding of artists’ messages. Whether explicit or implicit, these messages are capable of carrying an infinite range of narratives drawn from the past, the present, and the future.
This exhibition invites audiences to consider deciphering both as a driving force in artistic creation and as a central concern in the preservation of memory.
Curator: Zoé Marty Heritage Curator and Head of the Collections Department at MAMC+
Flying Colors:
A Dialogue with the Collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
https://mamc.saint-etienne-metropole.fr/en/exhibition/flying-colors
The Flying Colors – A Dialogue with the Collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition brings together approximately 150 works by around forty American artists drawn from the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) and the MAMC+. This dialogue between the two museums spans nearly 75 years of American art history, from 1950 to the present. During the Second World War, the United States offered refuge to many European artists in search of renewal and freedom, laying the groundwork for the emergence of major artistic movements to come. Chronologically organized, the exhibition aims to demonstrate how artists, often deeply engaged with political and social issues, have consistently upheld and defended the values of otherness. Brought together through the Franco-American FRAME network, the Mia and the MAMC+ celebrate through this project a transatlantic friendship.
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States this year, the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) will present an exceptional American season highlighting its landmark collection, with the support of the FRAME network (French American Museum Exchange).
Curator: Aurélie Voltz General Director of thre MAMC+