ARTISTS SUBLIME THE MATERIAL
CERAMICS - GLASS - TEXTILE - DESIGN - WOOD - VIDEO - JEWELRY PHOTOGRAPHY - PAPER
February 11-23, 25
Fourvière Museum
Every day - 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
OPENING of the exhibition
Tuesday February 11 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Every day from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Full price 10€ / reduced price 7€
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The Musée de Fourvière will host Noir Impérial, organized by Mirabilia Lyon, from February 11 to 23, 2025.
The exhibition will bring together some forty artists and craftsmen to celebrate this “Imperial Black”, a dyeing invention, but also a mythical, innovative color, which changed the textile industry in the 19th century, especially the silk industry.
It was this “Noir Impérial” that made the Gillet family the great industrial dynasty that contributed to the growth of the city of Lyon and its region from 1834 to 1976.
François Gillet was born in Bully, the family's birthplace, a village located between the Monts du Lyonnais and Beaujolais regions. After his years as an apprentice dyer, he went on to study chemistry at the Ecole de la Martinière in Lyon.
The aim of this exhibition is to celebrate the fruitful encounter between scientific creation in the mastery of materials, and artistic creation, which transcends the latter to project it into the excellence of hand craftsmanship. The “Imperial Black” will be showcased through a variety of creative media: straw marquetry, glass, ceramics, featherwork, ropework, silk, jewelry, wood, drawing, fashion, wool felt, jewelry, paper and metal art, furniture, textile art and auteur photography.
Meetings and exchanges will accompany this exhibition.
The story of the Gillet family continues with a proposal written in the very inspiring “Imperial Black” ink, and will be embodied by a wash by Gao Xingjian, painter and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.
Françoise Souchaud
Founder and President, Mirabilia Lyon
Artistes
Gao Xingjian
Brigitte Long
Christiane Chiavazza
Christelle Balbinot
Emmanuelle Sage-Lenoir
Evelyne Postic
Françoise Hoffmann
Geneviève Parois
Hélène Jospé
Hervé Bacquet
Isabelle Leclercq
Isabelle Moulin
Jean-François Ferraton
Jean-Michel Debilly
Jean-Marc Paubel
Jonathan Ausseresse
Juliette Frescaline
Lise Gonthier
Laurence Oppermann
MAISON FIFTEEN
Maurice Sage
Marion Hawecker
Marika M.
Maryvonne Dublassy
Nicolas David
Norberto Moretti
Olivia Ferrand
Paulina Fuentes-Valenzuela
Pierreremi Studio
Rébecca (!) Fabulatrice
Relinde Molhoek
Sabine Feliciano
Sandrine Thiébaud Mathieu
Sœur Samuelle
Sophie Guyot
Tina Marais
Véronique de Soultrait
Vincent Breed
Virginie Bécourt
Zélie Rouby
Zoé Pignolet
WHO ARE WE ?
©Sabine Feliciano
© Bernard Pilorgé
© Bernard Pilorgé
© Bernard Pilorgé
© Bernard Pilorgé
© Bernard Pilorgé
Imperial Black is honored to welcome Gao Xingjian
Dazzling from the depths of black
This “Noir Impérial” exhibition in Lyon will be
be enhanced by the presence of a sumptuous Indian ink wash
by writer Gao Xingjian,
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.
Gao's pictorial work is closely linked to his written work
with his written work, for both possess the
possess the dazzling clarity of an outpouring
that sometimes comes to us from the darkest depths
of human history.
In this wash, whose expressive power comes from its
formal sobriety, we feel the redemptive vertigo
redemptive vertigo of man merging with the nobility
and mystery of vast imaginary landscapes
conducive to the free flight of the soul's spirit.
Pierre Souchaud,
essayist and founder of Artension magazine
Gao Xingjian 1997 - Oblivion
Conference, meeting with:
Isabelle Moulin
Artistic Director of Silk me Back
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
Date and place:
Thursday February 20
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
> Confluences room of the Carré Fourvière
• This meeting is limited to 40 people
• Entry pass:
> Museum entrance + catalogue + conference > €30
> Museum entrance + conference > €20
> Museum entrance and conference for students
(student card) > 15 €
Conference with Isabelle Moulin, museographer specialising in silk, textiles and industrial heritage, and artistic director of Silk me Back. Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettre
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The Imperial Black of the Gillet family is part of the long history of a deeply symbolic colour that has accompanied, seduced and frightened us since the dawn of time.
During this talk, Isabelle Moulin will offer a few keys to understanding this colour through the piece she created especially for the exhibition, and will also evoke the many nuances she encountered during her missions along the Silk Road.
Isabelle Moulin
Artistic Director of Silk me Back
Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Daguerréotype Christophe Pouget
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