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5 1 EXPOSITION What doesn’t kill you ‘Grape Harvest in


Provence’ by Étienne Martin (1815)


This exhibition explores one of the most significant upheavals in the history of winemaking in France, honouring the resilience, ingenuity and know-how that brought the vineyards back to life. In the 19th century, French viticulture was benefiting from an unprecedented boom as methods evolved – until the unthinkable happened: a tiny aphid, known as phylloxera, destroyed the larger part of Europe’s vineyards in just a few years. The crisis had a lasting effect on the landscape and on winegrowing


science and practices. This large-scale exhibition shows how a path led from the edge of ruin and exodus, with no lack of crazy beliefs and absurd ideas, to replanting and rebirth. A wide collaboration between the Musée d’Arts et d’Histoire and the Musée des Savoir-faire du Cognac with the Épernay museum, the Anjou vineyard museum, the museum of the vineyard of Nantes, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the human dimension of the ordeal that eventually led the wine world to emerge stronger, giving rise to the creation of the Appellations d’Origines Contrôlées.  Until December 31 www.les-distillateurs-culturels.fr


ART IN PLAIN SIGHT


For its fifth edition, the open-air contemporary art exhibition ‘Les Extatiques’ returns to La Défense district of Paris with a selection of works celebrating living things. In an ode to nature and a reawakening of the imagination, each work invites us to look at the glorious life all around us in a new way.  Until October 2 parisladefense.com


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EXHIBITIONS


Our pick of unmissable exhibitions across France


ORIENTALISTS IN HAUTE-COUTURE The Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais presents the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the house of Lecoanet Hemant, unveiling 40 years of creations combining the art of French couture with the spirit of the East. Until December 31 www.cite-dentelle.fr


REIGN OF FLOWERS As part of the Nice Arts Biennial, the Masséna Museum in Nice explores the city’s historical affinity with flowers, their mythology and place in architecture, and their importance in the local economy. Until October 9 biennalearts2022.nice.fr


PICASSO AND WINE La Cité du Vin in Bordeaux devotes a major exhibition to the recurring theme of wine and popular spirits in the work of Pablo Picasso, through a wide selection of paintings, drawings, ceramics, and films. Until August 28 www.laciteduvin.com


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INTOXICATING COLOUR More than 90 works on loan from prominent museums and art collections evidence the virtuosity of French painter Raoul Dufy, with a focus on the influence of Provence and Cézanne on his colourful work. Until September 18 www.caumont-centredart.com


WORKING THE LAND The Courbet Museum in Ornans puts together a dazzling meditation on the depiction of rural life in art, and the figure of the peasant in particular, from Courbet to Van Gogh, in realism, modernism or anti- modernism. Until October 9 www.musee-courbet.fr


IMAGES © DHRUV KAKOTI, RMN-GRAND PALAIS / ADRIEN DIDIERJEAN, SUCCESSION PICASSO, MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE DIJON / FRANÇOIS JAY, ELSA TOMKOWIAK


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