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Turning A Glance into Poetry : Retrospective of Marc Riboud’s Photography at the Chengdu Art Museum

from December 21, 2024 to March 30, 2025

On December 10, the retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud at the Hunan Museum closed its doors. It was a real success, with almost 50,000 visitors in 3 months! And it’s not over yet for the Chinese public, as Marc Riboud’s photographs are now on show at the Chengdu Art Museum until 30 March 2025, in a redesigned exhibition space.
The new exhibition features 136 photographs in two spaces, one of which is devoted exclusively to Chinese photographs taken between 1957 and 2002.
This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute in China for its support.

“The countries I love are like friends,” Marc once wrote, adding, “I like to see them again, to know what they are becoming, how they are changing. So I often go back to China, where everything changes more quickly than elsewhere, even if the attentive eye can see the permanence of things beneath this turbulent surface”.

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Turning A Glance into Poetry, Retrospective Exhibition of Marc Ribud’s Photography
from December 21, 2024 to March 30, 2025
Chengdu Art Museum, N°388 Jinniuba Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
https://www.cdmuseum.com

 

View of the exhibition at the Chengdu Art Museum
View of the exhibition at the Chengdu Art Museum

October news : Marc Riboud x Magnum Photos

from October 21 to 27

October Square Print Sale by Magnum Photos

Nap in Acapulco, Mexico, 1959 © Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG
The association Les amis de Marc Riboud is taking part in the Square Print Sale organised by Magnum Photos from 21 to 27 October 2024. The theme of the sale is “Eden”, hence the choice of this photograph, taken in Mexico in 1959, which celebrates the delights of sun and rest.

Both Magnum and The Photo Society photographers have contributed over 120 signed or estate-stamped prints which are available to purchase as 6×6″ digital c-type prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte paper during the one-week online sale.Find all the details of the sale on the Magnum Photos website

 

Group exhibition España x Magnum

Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos Benedictine Abbey, 1959, Spain

This photograph by Marc Riboud is on show until October 26, at La Fábrica de Armas de La Vega in Oviedo, Spain. Magnum Photos agency, winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, is organising a group exhibition on the theme of Spain, featuring 112 prints by 46 photographers.

West Meets East – Retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud’s photography at the Hunan Museum

From September 26 to December 10, 2024

The Association Les amis de Marc Riboud is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective exhibition in China featuring 148 photographs by Marc Riboud on loan from the Guimet Museum. The exhibition will be held at the Hunan Museum from September 26 to December 10, 2024, and then at the Chengdu Art Museum from December 21, 2024 to March 20, 2025.

Bringing together all these journeys, from Paris to the Far East and around the world, the exhibition gives pride of place to China.

China has been Marc Riboud’s greatest passion. As soon as he became a photographer, he tried to obtain a visa for this country that he had always dreamed of. Finally, in 1957, he was to be immersed for the first time in the faces and landscapes of China’s countryside and big cities. There he walked for days and days, in silence. To see and observe, because for him, the only way to understand this people, who seemed so far from us, was to look at them.

In the course of his many journeys, a deep, silent bond developed with those he was looking at. This silent communication with the Chinese people was Marc Riboud’s greatest joy. He loved exhibiting in China and would have been delighted with this retrospective in Changsha and Chengdu, which shows once again that the Chinese are still sensitive to this respectful, sympathetic gaze, which seeks to understand, to discover the beauty of form in the disorder of reality, to patiently follow the evolution of a people over more than fifty years.

This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute of China for its support.

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Hunan Museum, N°50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
https://www.hnmuseum.com

Chengdu Art Museum, N°388 Jinniuba Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
https://www.cdmuseum.com

 

Outside view of the Hunan Museum ©Zoé Barthélémy

 

View of the exhibition at the Hunan Museum ©Hunan Museum

Exhibition “Histoire(s) sans fin” at Le Reverbere Gallery

September 21 - December 28, 2024
Advertising in Shanghai, 2002 ©Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG

 

From September 21 to December 28, Marc Riboud will be on show at Le Réverbère Gallery in Lyon, along with his old friends William Klein, Bernard Plossu, Denis Roche and others.


The collective exhibition Histoire(s) sans fin will feature a selection of emblematic, rare, iconic or unique works by each of the gallery’s photographers.
For Marc Riboud, the gallery has chosen to focus on China, with marvellous “classic” photos of 1957 and 1965, as well as those of the very modern China of the 2000s.


A word of advice: go for it! All the more so as this is the last exhibition of this remarkable gallery which, for 35 years, has brought photography to the whole region, and which, sadly, will be closing its doors at the end of the year.

 

Le Réverbère gallery is located at 38 rue Burdeau, 69001 Lyon.

For more information: www.galerielereverbere.com/exposition

 

Antic shop windows, Liulichang, Beijing, 1965 ©Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG

Crossed perspectives on China : exhibition of Marc Riboud and Martin Parr at Forte di Bard, Italy

July, 5 - November, 11, 2024

Exhibition : “China. From Cultural Revolution to super power” Martin Parr – Marc Riboud

Production : Magnum Photos and Forte di Bard

Adress : Forte di Bard, 11020 Bard, Aosta Valley, Italy

 

How to tell the story of a country like China: so vast, populous, diverse in its landscapes and in the peoples who make it up, so eternal and so changing? For this exhibition, we made a bet: we asked Martin Parr to select images from Marc Riboud’s archives and to add a selection from his personal archives. Without being exhaustive, these two proposals give a clear idea of the development of China from the 1950s to the present day, from an idealistic, inward-looking country to a superpower competing with the United States.

 

© Forte di Bard

Documentary movie « Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle » in official selection of the FiGRA

Broadcast on May, 31 at 2:35 PM

Documentary movie « Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle » by Virginie Linhart (2023) is in official selection of the Festival international du Grand Reportage d’Actualité.

Broadcast on May 31, 2:35 PM at CINEMA MAJESTIC 600, Boulevard de la république 59500 DOUAI

Production: Agat Films, in coproduction with Les amis de Marc Riboud

 

Photographs by Marc Riboud at Taikoo Li Qiantan, Shanghai

from April 26th to May 31st 2024

A selection of Marc Riboud’s photographs are to be seen in Shanghai, at Taikoo Li Qiantan, as part of the “Meta Eye Festival”.

Address: Taikoo Li Qiantan, 500 Dongyu Road, Pudong New Area, 200041, Shanghai, China

Documentary movie “Marc Riboud, Photographier le XXème siècle” by Virginie Linhart on France Télévisions

on November 17th

Documentary movie by Virginie Linhart, 2023
With the participations of Catherine Riboud, Lorène Durret, Sarah Moon, Patrick Zachmann and Camille de Toledo

Link to watch the replay on France Télévisions’ website (available untill May 25th 2024):
www.france.tv/films/longs-metrages/5390823-marc-riboud-photographier-le-xxeme-siecle.html

(Photograph: Marc Riboud in China, 1996 © Xiao Quan)

Production: Agat Films, in coproduction with Les amis de Marc Riboud
With the participation of France Télévisions and the CNC, and the support of  Procirep – Société des producteurs and Angoa

Exhibition “Marc Riboud & Steve McCurry, Sur la route de l’Orient” at Polka Gallery, Paris

from November 10th 2023 to January 27th 2024

 

Adress: 12 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris.
Free entrance from Tuesday to Saturday, from 11am to 7pm.

For more information: Polka gallery’s website

Exhibition « Afghanistan, Tisser l’horizon à l’infini » at Chapelle du Méjan, Arles

from October 13th 2023 to January 7th 2024

An unseen look between Afghan and French contemporary artists, between new works and traces of the past, to weave the Afghan history and preserve its breath.

This exhibition is born from the encounter, in 2023, of personalities of Arles, passionate by the art of textile and Afghan culture, with Zolaykha Sherzad who was about to close an exhibition at Guimet – National Asian Arts Museum. A sensible dialogue between the life of bodies, dressed with textile, and the art of weaving in the history of Afghanistan.

TEXTILE, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, INSTALLATION & FILM
Barmak Akram, Pascal Convert, Latif Eshraq, Ferrante Ferranti, Morteza Herati, Zahra Khodadadi, Zolaykha Sherzad, Mohsin Taasha, Naseer Turkmani
and the witnesses of history: Ria Hackin et Marc Riboud
CURATOR: Guilda Chahverdi

Free entrance from Wednesday to Friday from 2pm to 7pm; Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
For more information: lemejan.com/evenement