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\"Plakatas\"<\/a>Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art\u2013Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Place de la Maison Carr\u00e9e. 30000 N\u00eemes, France<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tel: +33 (0)4 66 76 35 70<\/span><\/p>\n

From October 25, 2024 to March 23, 2025, and as part of the 2024 Lithuanian Season in France, Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art – Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de N\u00eemes presents The Softest Hard<\/em> by artist Marija Ol\u0161auskait\u0117 (b. 1989, Vilnius). Several works, including some in glass, will be on display in the Project Room on the 2ndfloor of Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art, an oscillation between the traditions of craft and ornament and the social role of sculpture. Marija Ol\u0161auskait\u0117 uses a variety of collaborative modes and explores themes of relationships, openness, intimacy and belonging. This exhibition focuses on her long affinity with glass. She creates forms that always seem to be in a state of transformation, using both conventional and more contemporary materials suchas silicone.<\/p>\n

In many of her works, there is a direct reference to Lithuania\u2019s once flourishing glass production. The artist continues to work with glassmakers from companies that are still active. She recovered colored glass plates from the Raudonoji Ausra company, which was active until the 1990s and used to make stained glass. Workers at times had smuggled them out of the factory, enabling her to obtain and collect them as well as give them a new lease of life. They are featured in the series of glass folding screens Never Act in Haste.<\/p>\n

Marija Ol\u0161auskait\u0117\u2019s sculptures seem to have a life of their own, passing through analchemical process from liquid to solid state. These forms, which can sometimes seem to come straight from the future, are objects that question the sensations we can feel in front of them, and force us to think about how we share them. As she puts it, all the objects in the exhibition are twins, brothers or sisters in a family dynamic. They are in dialogue with each other.Presented at the same time as the Aleksandra Kasuba exhibition, Marija Ol\u0161auskait\u0117\u2019s works continue the ideas of her elder, who conceived architecture as a means of thinking about and reinventing human relationships, affirming the social role of architecture and art.<\/p>\n

About Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art<\/h6>\n

Inaugurated in 1993, the opening of Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art-Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de N\u00eemes is a successful example of the opening up to contemporary art and the policy of decentralisation undertaken in France from the 1980s onwards. Situated between the CAPC in Bordeaux and the Abattoirs in Toulouse to the west, and the MAC in Marseille and the MAMAC in Nice to the east, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Contemporain de N\u00eemes is a link in a chain that has been completed over the years with a view to promoting and disseminating contemporary art in the Mediterranean region.Like its Parisian model, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Art houses the media libraryand the museum of contemporary art, offering N\u00eemes residents and visitors from abroad a new place to live. It was in 1983 that Jean Bousquet, newly elected Mayor of N\u00eemes, confirmed his plans to raise the city\u2019s cultural profile around the major project of creating this new institution.Begun in 1986, with considerable help from the Direction des Mus\u00e9es de France, the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art now comprises almost 600 works.<\/p>\n

Exhibition curator<\/span><\/b> Jean-Marc Prevost<\/span><\/p>\n

Organisers:<\/span><\/b> Lithuanian National Museum of Art, <\/span>Carr\u00e9 d’Art-Mus\u00e9e d’art contemporain de N\u00eemes<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Lithuanian Season in France is implemented by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and the French Institute of Culture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other exhibitions and events of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in the programme of the Lithuanian season in France 2024<\/a> and during the season in France:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n