Fabienne Verdier, Mute, 2025
Presented by Lelong and Waddington Custot
Born in 1962 in Paris, Fabienne Verdier lives and works in Paris.
'Mute' inaugurates a cycle of contemporary art exhibitions curated by art historian Matthieu Poirier at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. The word 'mute,' for 'silent', also refers in French to the imperative form of the verb 'muter' ('to mutate'). It emphasizes the notions of silence, transformation, and flow in Fabienne Verdier's abstract painting. The event brings together some forty large-format works, emanating from the artist's vast imagination, her use of natural forces, and her formal asceticism. All resonate, through their limited palette and a labyrinthine scenography, with the vast spaces of the museum and its collections of medieval sculpture and architecture.
Open from October 22, 2025 to February 16, 2026, 11am to 7pm.
Students from the École du Louvre are available every day from October 22 to 26, 2pm to 17:30pm, to provide visitors with information.
Group show, Chromoscope, 2025
Presented by Yares
Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella.
'Chromoscope' inaugurates a series of exhibitions presented by art historian Matthieu Poirier at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. It explores Color Field and Post-Painterly Abstraction from 1955 to 1992 through the lens of immersion and perception, unfolding in the museum’s Murals Gallery, amid the maze of its medieval chapels and frescoes. Twenty-three large format paintings from artist estates and private collections, with the support of Yares Art, reveal an atmospheric field shaped by pigment fluidity, gaze circulation, frontality, transparency and vibration.
Open from October 22, 2025 to February 16, 2026, 11am to 7pm.
Students from the École du Louvre are available every day from October 22 to 26, 2pm to 17:30pm, to provide visitors with information.