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From Januar 29 to Mai 3, 2020, the institution has scheduled a new retrospective of his life’s work entitled René Burri, Explosions of Sight.
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From January to May 2020, curated by Marc Donnadieu and Mélanie
Bétrisey, the institution has scheduled a new retrospective of his
life’s work entitled René Burri, Explosions of Sight. The bonds
between René Burri and the Musée de l’Elysée are strong, and
anchored in the institution’s history. In 1985, when it was opened as
a “museum for photography”, Burri attended for his friend Charles-
Henri Favrod. Two years later, his photographic project “Les Ruines
du futur” (The Ruins of the Future) was presented. In 2004, the
museum hosted his first retrospective. In 2013, Burri decided to set
up a foundation in his name at the Musée de l’Elysée.
This new exhibition is the culmination of diligent research and
studies carried out by the Musée de l’Elysée teams since 2013 on
the entire René Burri collection in family archives and the Magnum
Photos archives in Paris and New York. It aims to offer a new
perspective on all Burri’s myriad creative activities throughout his
life. It reveals a more personal and secret side to one of the most
influential photojournalists of our time with a great many often
previously unpublished documents: contact sheets, study prints,
films, models for books, exhibition projects, notebooks, collages,
watercolours, drawings, etc.
Based on a long, chronological “Lifeline” leading visitors through
the nine rooms of the Musée de l’Elysée’s two exhibition levels,
this project develops twelve “Focal Points”, each showcasing a
decisive element of Burri’s creative process in the broadest sense
of the term: Cinema; Structures; Myself and the Others; Che; China;
Television; Magnum; Book; One World; Colour; Collages; Drawings.
In this exhibition, René Burri is shown to be modern and inventive,
committed and facetious, curious and generous, unifying and a
mentor, a rebel and poet, impassioned and fascinating and above all,
particularly explosive!