Accueil Gisèle Freund

Upcoming exhibition at the Foundation

Gisèle Freund

L'Œil frontière
Paris 1933-1940

from October, 14 2011 to January 29, 2012

The Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent is devoting its 16th exhibition to the photographer, Gisèle Freund (1908-2000), whose work will be presented through hundreds of prints and numerous archived documents.

Born in Berlin, Gisèle Freund was forced to flee to Paris in 1933. During her years in Paris (1933-1940), she published her thesis, La photographie en France au XIXème siècle, produced her first photo journalistic pieces and becomes great friends with booksellers Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, thanks to whom she met many writers. Such encounters, at first intellectual, resulted in a whole series of photographs in black and white, later in colour, a new and rare technique at the time. Malraux, Cocteau, Gide, Colette, Valéry, Zweig, Joyce, Woolf… An impressive portrait gallery of contemporary writers, photographed among their books, is at the heart of the exhibition, which recounts a key period in the life of Gisèle Freund.

The Fondation is happy to present, in partnership with the Fonds Mémoire de la création contemporaine (Fonds MCC) and the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC), the work of a pioneer, whose work was last shown at a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 1991.

Curators Olivier Corpet and Catherine Thieck
assisted by Elisabeth Perolini and Lorraine Audric

Designer agence NC, Nathalie Crinière
assisted by Anne Lebas

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Guided visits to the Foundation

In collaboration with Cultival, the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent invites the public to visit the temporary exhibitions, Yves Saint Laurent's studio and the library of the Foundation, accompanied by a guide.

Visits can be conducted in French, English or Spanish.

Reservations are required and can be made, according to availibility, by contacting Cultival at +33 (0)825 05 44 05 (0,15€/mn) or contact@cultival.fr.

More informations is available at www.cultival.fr

Les Modules

Fondation Pierre Bergé -

Yves Saint Laurent

As part of its continuing support of creativity, the Fondation promotes young contemporary art by affiliating itself with the Modules, sponsored since 2006 by the Palais de Tokyo.

The program offers emerging artists the opportunity to show their work at the heart of the French contemporary art scene.

A complete schedule can be found at www.palaisdetokyo.com