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exhibition

11 > 23.02 - 25

Mirabilia Lyon vous donne Rendez-vous pour l'exposition Noir Impérial

Noir Impérial exposition lyon

ARTISTS SUBLIME THE MATERIAL
CERAMICS - GLASS - TEXTILE - DESIGN - WOOD - VIDEO - JEWELRY PHOTOGRAPHY - PAPER

February 11-23, 25
Fourvière Museum
Every day - 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Rates

OPENING
Tuesday February 11 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
entrance 10€ full price

The Musée de Fourvière will host Noir Impérial, organized by Mirabilia Lyon, from February 11 to 23, 2025.

The exhibition will bring together some forty artists and craftsmen to celebrate this “Imperial Black”, a dyeing invention, but also a mythical, innovative color, which changed the textile industry in the 19th century, especially the silk industry.

It was this “Noir Impérial” that made the Gillet family the great industrial dynasty that contributed to the growth of the city of Lyon and its region from 1834 to 1976.
François Gillet was born in Bully, the family's birthplace, a village located between the Monts du Lyonnais and Beaujolais regions. After his years as an apprentice dyer, he went on to study chemistry at the Ecole de la Martinière in Lyon.

The aim of this exhibition is to celebrate the fruitful encounter between scientific creation in the mastery of materials, and artistic creation, which transcends the latter to project it into the excellence of hand craftsmanship. The “Imperial Black” will be showcased through a variety of creative media: straw marquetry, glass, ceramics, featherwork, ropework, silk, jewelry, wood, drawing, fashion, wool felt, jewelry, paper and metal art, furniture, textile art and auteur photography.


Meetings and exchanges will accompany this exhibition.

The story of the Gillet family continues with a proposal written in the very inspiring “Imperial Black” ink, and will be embodied by a wash by Gao Xingjian, painter and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.

Françoise Souchaud

Founder and President, Mirabilia Lyon

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Conference
Noir Impérial

Thursday February 20, 25
from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Conference and meeting
with Isabelle Moulin

Conférence rencontre avec Isabelle Moulin, muséographe spécialisée dans le domaine de la soie, du textile et du patrimoine industriel, directrice artistique du Silk me Back. Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettre

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Le Noir Impérial des Gillet s’inscrit dans la longue histoire d’une couleur  à la profonde symbolique qui nous accompagne, nous séduit, nous effraye depuis le Nuit des Temps.

Lors de cette conférence, Isabelle Moulin offrira quelques clés de lecture de cette couleur déclinées à travers la pièce qu’elle a créée spécialement pour l’exposition et permettant aussi d’évoquer ses multiples nuances rencontrées au cours de ses missions, tout au long de la Route de la Soie.

Isabelle Moulin

Directrice artistique du Silk me Back

Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

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