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€
Rates + details
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 + Étudiants
Anne Guérant
Angelica Zabaleta Mabolo
Benoit Huot
Christine Fayon
Emmanuelle Sage Lenoir
Eric Chambon
Evelyne Postic
Françoise Hoffmann
Hélène Bret
Hélène Jospé
Laurence Font
Laurence Oppermann
Marie Pourchot
Marion Oster
Mona Luison
Nathalie Faton et Jean-Paul Fermet
Odile Mandrette
Olivia Ferrand/Cindy Larrat
Rasa Vilkinskai
Rose Pélagie de Matteis-Kouadio
Sabine Feliciano
Sara Brita Salamone
Sophie Guyot
Tiphaine Misstif
Tina Marais
Véronique Guicheret
Xavier Brisoux
- Lycée Adrien Testud - Chambon Feugerolles
- Lycée Joseph Marie Jacquard - Oullins
- ENSATT Lyon
OUR PARTNERS
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
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
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
OUR PARTNERS
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
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