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From Picasso to Kiki Smith: Portraits of Modernity is an international exchange exhibition co-organized by the Daegu Art Museum and the Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut (LaM), drawing on the collections of both institutions. Taking the portrait as its lens, the exhibition examines how artists from the modern era to the present have envisioned humanity and the world. LaM opened in 1983 to house the collection of modern art donated by Geneviève and Jean Masurel, members of a prominent textile family in northern France, and has since become a leading institution in the French museum landscape. Thanks to a subsequent gift from the heirs of the collector Roger Dutilleul, the museum has shared more than 8,000 exceptional avant-garde works with the French public over some four decades. Those works can now be discovered at the Daegu Art Museum. Coinciding with the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and France, the exhibition takes on particular significance: through their collections, two museums rooted in different cultural traditions share their perspectives and artistic experience, and together explore the many faces of modernity.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, art began to break with traditional modes of representation in search of new ways of seeing humanity and the world. No longer confined to recording a sitter's appearance and social standing, the portrait became a vital artistic genre. It could now reveal the sensibility of its age, the inner life of the individual, and the shifting currents of society and culture.
In the work of such defining figures of modern art as Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Fernand LΓ©ger, Georges Braque, and Joan MirΓ³, we encounter new interpretations of the human figure alongside a range of responses to humanity in a rapidly changing age. For these artists, the portrait was both a means of representing reality and a field of inquiry into human existence and the spirit of the times. They pursued that inquiry through forms that were fragmented, transformed, and at times simplified. Yet the meaning of the portrait does not end with modernism. Contemporary artists pose new questions about the body, the face, and individual identity, and also about the relationship between memory and society, and between images and popular culture. Kiki Smith, Mimmo Rotella, Anna Oppermann, and others push the boundaries of the genre, revealing how the images that surround us are produced, consumed, and remembered. Their materials and methods range across fragments and traces of the body, urban imagery, the signs of mass media, and everyday objects. That range makes clear that a portrait today need no longer depict one particular person. It is at once an inner world and a social landscape: a mirror held up to the times in which we live.
Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and drawing, the exhibition traces these developments through some one hundred works. Six works from the Daegu Art Museum's collection are presented alongside those of LaM, one of France's foremost museums of modern and contemporary art, bringing the two collections into dialogue and opening up new contexts. Rather than following a chronological sequence, the exhibition is organized into seven thematic sections. Across them, three major strands intersect: the birth of modernism in the early twentieth century, Art Brut, and the art of our time. The masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism, which broke with traditional religious and historical narratives to capture the complex inner lives of modern individuals, mark the beginning of modernity. In the same spirit, LaM's internationally renowned Art Brut collection expands the boundaries of aesthetics. It reveals raw, unmediated portraits of the human essence that lie beneath a society founded on reason. This current extends into the work of contemporary artists who continually probe the self and the other in today's image-saturated world.
By bringing together, under a single theme, the collections of two institutions with distinct histories and cultural backgrounds, the exhibition seeks above all to foster new relationships and dialogues between works. It offers a rare opportunity to encounter portraits of human dignity that transcend time, portraits perpetually in motion, dismantled, and redefined. We hope that this meeting of modern and contemporary works will invite visitors to rediscover the meaning of the portrait, a genre long familiar to us, and to reflect on the relationships between humanity and its time, and between image and memory.