After Roma

The exhibition After Roma, in reference to the trips of several months duration that European intellectuals undertook through Italy from the 17th century, presents a new look on Yvon Lambert's collection. This new exhibition of the Collection Lambert will demonstrate that the supposed rupture between contemporary art and the art of the past is partially usurped. Better yet, Yvon Lambert's artistic choices resonate with classical culture: Virgil. Cicero, Elagabalus, Dante, Goethe, and Stendhal on the one hand, Poussin or Caravaggio, Corot or Uccello, Delacroix or Bernini on the other, nourishing the collection's orientations, the oldest acquisitions - those of the 1960s as well as those acquisitions that are continuing today. Also it shows this highly personal passion which motivates the collector for the city of Rome and its history through the work of more than forty artists. Cy Twombly's sublime works on paper are references to mythology are as amorous as the Painter and his model by Matisse or Picasso; Brice Marden's collages are intimately linked with Quattrocento art history. What can be said about Andres Serrano's busts of Dante, or of Virgil by Miquel Barceló, or a Roman emperor by Jean-Charles Blais, references to the three graces or a Niobe drama by Giulio Paolini, these sculptures that we find deep inside the grounds of the Villa Medici...