Debate / Meeting
Eileen Gray
Exhibitions talking
17 May 2013
The event is over
Eileen Gray: artist, designer, architect. Born in 1878, the Irish artist Eileen Gray moved to Paris in 1906. An iconic figure of the decorative arts and a symbol of modernity, she created work over a 70-year period with absolute conceptual freedom. Of Eileen Gray there only remains unique works, incomplete archives and a series of mysteries.
Eileen Gray: artist, designer, architect. Born in 1878, the Irish artist Eileen Gray moved to Paris in 1906. An iconic figure of the decorative arts and a symbol of modernity, she created work over a 70-year period with absolute conceptual freedom. Of Eileen Gray there only remains unique works, incomplete archives and a series of mysteries.
18:30: screening of the film La Table E1027 d'Eileen Gray by Danielle Shirman (2013, 26'), in the presence of the director.
19:00: debate with Peter Adam (Journalist, Author of the Eileen Gray biography), Renaud Barrès (Architect and Historian of Contemporary Architecture), Jennifer Goff (Curator at the National Museum of Ireland), Frédéric Migayrou (Assistant Director of the MNAM/CCI) and Cloé Pitiot (Curator at the MNAM/CCI, Exhibition Curator) Moderator: Romain Lacroix.
Co-produced by the Irish Cultural Centre.
When
From 7pm
