Contemporary counterpoint highlights Vija Celmins, the artist who, since the late 1960s, has developed a very precise body of work centred on surfaces: ocean, desert, sky or snow, which she calls “impossible images”, without spatial reference points, immersing the viewer in infinity. Her works, made between 1971 and 2000, use various techniques (drawing, painting, printmaking, woodcut) and play with flatness and illusion. Presented in the pronaos and the contemporary room of the musée de l'Orangerie, these pieces engage in dialogue with Monet's Nymphéas and invite an attentive, silent experience.
Claire Bernardi, director of the musée de l'Orangerie Sophie Eloy, collection curator, musée de l'Orangerie
*Reduced-rate ticket, time-stamped during the exceptional late openings from 18:00 to 21:00, on Fridays during the exhibition period.