Tuesday June 21, 8:30pm - Gala Dinner (optionnal)
The Conference Committee suggest to all participants and accompanying persons a gala dinner at "La Nautique".
Gala dinner price: 50 euros
Wednesday June 22, 7:30pm - Exhibition (optionnal - to be confirmed)
Orientalism in Europe, from Delacroix to Matisse
With over 120 paintings and sculptures from major international museums and private collections, Orientalism in Europe, from Delacroix to Matisse will give a sweeping view of Orientalism, not only in France but throughout Europe: alongside masterpieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Fromentin and Gérôme it will show works by English artists such as Lewis or alma-Tadema, Germans (Bauernfeind, Müller), Belgians (Portaels, Evenpoel), Spaniards (Villegals, Sorolla), Ilalians (Fabbi, Simoni), and even a Paris-trained Turkish Orientalist, Osman Hamdi Bey. Renoir, Matisse Kandinsky, Klee and Macke will illustrate the last section of the exhibition on modernist Orientalism.
This exhibition is a foretaste of the ambitious art programme that Marseille is planning as Cultural Capital of Europe in 2013.
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The sixteenth edition of the Festival of Marseille, which will start on June 16th of this year, puts Africa and afro-American history in the middle of its programming. Dialect of Africa to continue exploring our random access memories, ploughing our conscience.
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