Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day
The Musée de l’Orangerie presents “Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day”. Starting from Monet’s Nymphéas, the exhibition explores the concept of blurriness, its development throughout the history of art, and offers it as a key to open to another interpretation of a whole area of modern and contemporary visual creation.
Initially defined as “loss of distinctness”, blurriness has shown itself to be the favourite mean of expression in a world where instability reigns and visibility is clouded. It was on the ruins left by the Second Word War that this out-of-focus aesthetic took root and began to deploy its inevitable political dimension.
Curatorship
Claire Bernardi, Director of the Musée de l’Orangerie
Emilia Philippot, Chief Curator, Deputy Director of Studies at the National Institute of Heritage
In collaboration with Juliette Degennes, Curator at the Musée de l’Orangerie