Month: September 2024

West Meets East – Retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud’s photography at the Hunan Museum

From September 26 to December 10, 2024

The Association Les amis de Marc Riboud is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective exhibition in China featuring 148 photographs by Marc Riboud on loan from the Guimet Museum. The exhibition will be held at the Hunan Museum from September 26 to December 10, 2024, and then at the Chengdu Art Museum from December 21, 2024 to March 20, 2025.

Bringing together all these journeys, from Paris to the Far East and around the world, the exhibition gives pride of place to China.

China has been Marc Riboud’s greatest passion. As soon as he became a photographer, he tried to obtain a visa for this country that he had always dreamed of. Finally, in 1957, he was to be immersed for the first time in the faces and landscapes of China’s countryside and big cities. There he walked for days and days, in silence. To see and observe, because for him, the only way to understand this people, who seemed so far from us, was to look at them.

In the course of his many journeys, a deep, silent bond developed with those he was looking at. This silent communication with the Chinese people was Marc Riboud’s greatest joy. He loved exhibiting in China and would have been delighted with this retrospective in Changsha and Chengdu, which shows once again that the Chinese are still sensitive to this respectful, sympathetic gaze, which seeks to understand, to discover the beauty of form in the disorder of reality, to patiently follow the evolution of a people over more than fifty years.

This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute of China for its support.

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Hunan Museum, N°50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
https://www.hnmuseum.com

Chengdu Art Museum, N°388 Jinniuba Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
https://www.cdmuseum.com

 

Outside view of the Hunan Museum ©Zoé Barthélémy

 

View of the exhibition at the Hunan Museum ©Hunan Museum

Exhibition “Histoire(s) sans fin” at Le Reverbere Gallery

September 21 - December 28, 2024
Advertising in Shanghai, 2002 ©Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG

 

From September 21 to December 28, Marc Riboud will be on show at Le Réverbère Gallery in Lyon, along with his old friends William Klein, Bernard Plossu, Denis Roche and others.


The collective exhibition Histoire(s) sans fin will feature a selection of emblematic, rare, iconic or unique works by each of the gallery’s photographers.
For Marc Riboud, the gallery has chosen to focus on China, with marvellous “classic” photos of 1957 and 1965, as well as those of the very modern China of the 2000s.


A word of advice: go for it! All the more so as this is the last exhibition of this remarkable gallery which, for 35 years, has brought photography to the whole region, and which, sadly, will be closing its doors at the end of the year.

 

Le Réverbère gallery is located at 38 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon.

For more information: www.galerielereverbere.com/exposition

 

Antic shop windows, Liulichang, Beijing, 1965 ©Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG