Lauris et les Jardins de Magali encore à l'honneur dans un magazine anglais qui décrit la France et ses coins intéressants: c'est à l'occasion UNIQUE de l'exposition des affiches publicitaires chinoises qui aura lieu du 30 avril au 8 mai 2016. Elles viennent de la collection Gerry CONNAN de Londres.

Vernissage le 29 avril à 18 heures

Exposition ouverte tous les jours de 14 à 18 heures.

Une nouvelle affiche par jour jusqu'au vernissage

L'exposition " Roman Mosaics" organisée par le Museum Villa Getty à Los Angeles  retrace l'histoire des mosaïques romaines en montrant en particulier les deux mosaïques de Villelaure:  "Entellus  et Dares" et "Diane et Callisto". Elles sont mises en valeur avec des panneaux parlant de Villelaure, de Lauris et d'Ansouis, villages choisis pour représenter le Sud Luberon.

Cette exposition sera expliquée au cours d'une présentation dans les "Jardins de Magali" à Lauris le samedi 16 avril et le dimanche 17 avril.

Agenda:

Vendredi 15 avril: conférence de Jean Pierre Muret auteur de " Villelaure et ses mosaïques"

20 30 à la Galeria, face à la Mairie

Samedi 16 avril: vernissage à 18 heures dans les Jardins de Magali

Dimanche 17 avril : exposition de 14 à 18 heures. 

Pour en savoir plus sur l'exposition de la Villa Getty, vous pouvez consulter leur site ( en anglais) avec une présentation rédigée par Alexis Belis, la commissaire de l'exposition.

Article du NEW YORK TIMES

At the Getty Villa in Malibu, Calif., “Roman Mosaics Across the Empire,” opening on March 30, will survey ancient flooring from Turkey, Syria, Italy and France as well as Tunisia, where the Getty Conservation Institute is helping to protect mosaic pavements amid Roman ruins. The Getty’s mosaic of a boxing match will hang alongside a tableau of mythological hunters borrowed from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Both came from Villelaure, a hamlet in southern France, and were sold separately in the 1920s. A study center is being built in Villelaure, where more mosaic flooring has been excavated.

Article from the ICCM

GETTY VILLA HIGHLIGHTS MOSAICS
FROM ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES ACROSS THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Roman Mosaics across the Empire

at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa
March 30–September 12, 2016

LOS ANGELES—Mosaics once decorated luxurious domestic and public buildings across the broad expanse of the Roman Empire. Scenes from mythology, daily life, nature, and arena spectacles enlivened interior spaces and reflected the cultural ambitions of wealthy patrons. Roman Mosaics across the Empire, on view March 30–September 12, 2016, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, presents the artistry of mosaics as well as the contexts of their discovery throughout the Mediterranean region—from the Empire’s center in Italy to the provinces in North Africa, southern Gaul, and Syria. Drawn primarily from the Getty Museum’s collection, the exhibition offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience these splendid objects in all their visual and cultural magnificence. 

“Elaborately designed floors of mosaic tiles were an essential element of luxury living in the Roman Empire, providing a beautiful and sophisticated means of decorating both public buildings and private residences,” says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “This exhibition presents the largest and most impressive mosaics in the Museum’s collection, some of which will be on view for the first time. Their rich colors, intricate decorative patterns, and vivid depictions of scenes from mythology and everyday life are almost as fresh today as when they were first made two thousand years ago.”

The exhibition will examine the works in their original contexts, including the locations for which they were made—whether private villas, public baths, or churches—and the decorative and narrative functions of their subject matter.

“These important mosaics provide a glimpse into the richly embellished architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world,” says Jeffrey Spier, senior curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum. “Displaying these elaborately crafted mosaics will convey to visitors how ancient Romans surrounded themselves in their daily lives with beautiful art and imagery.”

Other mosaics in the exhibition from the province of Gaul (in present-day France) illustrate the great diversity of regional styles found throughout the Roman Empire. Gallo-Roman styles range from designs that isolated individual figures within in a grid-like framework, to compositions that feature colorful central panels with detailed figural scenes. Typical of the first type is a mosaic discovered in 1899 in a villa in Saint-Romain-en-Gal that depicts a scene of Orpheus, the mythical poet and musician, taming animals. Each animal is framed in a pattern of interlocking hexagons surrounding the bust of Orpheus. Two other Gallo-Roman mosaics once decorated floors in adjacent rooms of a villa excavated in 1900 near the modern town of Villelaure. Both are figural compositions inspired by themes from Roman literature. One, on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, depicts an episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The other represents the boxing match between Dares and Entellus described in Virgil’s Aeneid. New excavations of this same villa took place in 2006, when the local communities of Villelaure, Lauris, and Ansouis, and the association of Villa Laurus en Luberon, sought to preserve this archaeological site. A museum and workshop for the study of ancient mosaics are now planned for the site. 

The exhibition will also highlight a project at the archaeological site of Bulla Regia in present-day Tunisia, North Africa, led by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in collaboration with the Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia and World Monuments Fund, which seeks to conserve and maintain mosaics at the site. The project has two main components: the complete conservation of the House of the Hunt, one of the most significant private residences at the site, and a conservation and maintenance plan for the nearly four hundred mosaics excavated throughout the site over the past century. The plan calls for selected mosaics to be stabilized and presented to the public, and for others to be reburied for their protection. 

The Bulla Regia project serves as a large-scale example of best practice for in situ conservation, which can be adapted at similar sites in Tunisia and other countries. It is part of the MOSAIKON Initiative, which aims to improve the conservation and management of mosaics in the Mediterranean region, especially in North Africa and the Middle East. The MOSAIKON Initiative is a partnership of the GCI, the Getty Foundation, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, and the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics.

Reflecting its commitment to open content, the Getty will publish an online catalogue on the occasion of this exhibition called Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum (www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics). The catalogue is a companion to the Getty’s most recent open content publication, Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum (www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas). Both titles can be downloaded free of charge.

Roman Mosaics across the Empire is curated by Alexis Belis, assistant curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Dernière visite d'André Girod à la Villa Getty pour suivre les préparatifs: réunion avec Nicole et Judith, collaboratrices de Alexis. Le Dr Jeffrey Spier s'est joint à nous.

Etude de l'organisation de l'exposition, en particulier de la salle consacrée à Villelaure. Ces plans seront mis à notre disposition.

Programme proposé par la Villa Getty à la délégation française :

Lundi 28 mars 2016 :

  19 heures : Diner à la Villa Getty

Mardi 29 mars :

10 heures : visite privée de l’exposition avec Alexis Bellis, organisatrice de l’exposition accompagné d’André Girod comme traducteur

17 heures : réception VIP à la Villa Getty avec une centaine d’invités.

18 heures : réception publique avec près de mille invités.

Mercredi 30 mars :

10 heures ouverture de l’exposition au public jusqu’au 12 septembre.