West Meets East – Retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud’s photography at the Hunan Museum
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
Exhibition “Histoire(s) sans fin” at Le Reverbere Gallery
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
Crossed perspectives on China : exhibition of Marc Riboud and Martin Parr at Forte di Bard, Italy
Exhibition : “China. From Cultural Revolution to super power” Martin Parr – Marc Riboud
Production : Magnum Photos and Forte di Bard
Adress : Forte di Bard, 11020 Bard, Aosta Valley, Italy
How to tell the story of a country like China: so vast, populous, diverse in its landscapes and in the peoples who make it up, so eternal and so changing? For this exhibition, we made a bet: we asked Martin Parr to select images from Marc Riboud’s archives and to add a selection from his personal archives. Without being exhaustive, these two proposals give a clear idea of the development of China from the 1950s to the present day, from an idealistic, inward-looking country to a superpower competing with the United States.
© Forte di Bard
Documentary movie « Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle » in official selection of the FiGRA
Documentary movie « Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle » by Virginie Linhart (2023) is in official selection of the Festival international du Grand Reportage d’Actualité.
Broadcast on May 31, 2:35 PM at CINEMA MAJESTIC 600, Boulevard de la république 59500 DOUAI
Production: Agat Films, in coproduction with Les amis de Marc Riboud
Photographs by Marc Riboud at Taikoo Li Qiantan, Shanghai
A selection of Marc Riboud’s photographs are to be seen in Shanghai, at Taikoo Li Qiantan, as part of the “Meta Eye Festival”.
Address: Taikoo Li Qiantan, 500 Dongyu Road, Pudong New Area, 200041, Shanghai, China
Documentary movie “Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle” by Virginie Linhart on France Télévisions
Documentary movie by Virginie Linhart, 2023
With the participations of Catherine Riboud, Lorène Durret, Sarah Moon, Patrick Zachmann and Camille de Toledo
Link to watch the replay on France Télévisions’ website (available untill May 25th 2024):
www.france.tv/films/longs-metrages/5390823-marc-riboud-photographier-le-xxeme-siecle.html
(Photograph: Marc Riboud in China, 1996 © Xiao Quan)
Production: Agat Films, in coproduction with Les amis de Marc Riboud
With the participation of France Télévisions and the CNC, and the support of Procirep – Société des producteurs and Angoa
Exhibition “Marc Riboud & Steve McCurry, Sur la route de l’Orient” at Polka Gallery, Paris
Adress: 12 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris.
Free entrance from Tuesday to Saturday, from 11am to 7pm.
For more information: Polka gallery’s website
Exhibition « Afghanistan, Tisser l’horizon à l’infini » at Chapelle du Méjan, Arles
An unseen look between Afghan and French contemporary artists, between new works and traces of the past, to weave the Afghan history and preserve its breath.
This exhibition is born from the encounter, in 2023, of personalities of Arles, passionate by the art of textile and Afghan culture, with Zolaykha Sherzad who was about to close an exhibition at Guimet – National Asian Arts Museum. A sensible dialogue between the life of bodies, dressed with textile, and the art of weaving in the history of Afghanistan.
TEXTILE, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, INSTALLATION & FILM
Barmak Akram, Pascal Convert, Latif Eshraq, Ferrante Ferranti, Morteza Herati, Zahra Khodadadi, Zolaykha Sherzad, Mohsin Taasha, Naseer Turkmani
and the witnesses of history: Ria Hackin et Marc Riboud
CURATOR: Guilda Chahverdi
Free entrance from Wednesday to Friday from 2pm to 7pm; Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
For more information: lemejan.com/evenement
Exhibition “Clémence” in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France
The exhibition “Clémence”, inspired by the book “J’aime avoir peur avec toi” showcases texts by Catherine Chaine and photographs by Marc Riboud about the birth and childhood of their daugther, the wound of handicap, the ambivalence of their feelings.
The exhibition is here presented by the Festival du Fauteuil Rouge – Ciné Tence and supported by the municipality of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and the local council community.
This exhibition was created by Mathilde Terraube and Sylvie Hughes, artistic directors of Festival du Regard, Cergy-Pontoise, for its 2021 edition, in collaboration with Catherine Chaine and Lorène Durret.
Exhibition “Inde(s) au pluriel” at Gallery Le Réverbère, Lyon, France
Gallery Le Réverbère is located at 38 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon.
Free entrance from Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm, and otherwise by appointment.
For more information (in French): www.galerielereverbere.com/exposition