Contemporary exhibition

Barbara Chase-Riboud · Everytime A Knot is Undone, A God is Released

From September 17th to December 15th, 2024
Portrait de Barbara Chase-Riboud
© Courtesy Pulitzer Arts Foundation / Virginia Harold
Eight Paris museums celebrate the life and work of Barbara Chase-Riboud. Born in 1939, this living artist has been working for seven decades, traveling all over the world and developing an unparalleled mastery of form. The exhibition, spread across eight sites, includes a collection of monumental sculptures which demonstrate the power of bronze and silk, essential elements of the sculptor's work, weaving connections between cultures, stories, and substances. At the Musée d'Orsay, five of the artist's works will be exhibited in the clock room on the 5th floor.

In the Musée d'Orsay's famous clock room, an emblem of modernity, five aluminum and silk sculptures will be on display. In juxtaposition with one of the large clocks on the museum's facade, they question the notion of time.


Barbara Chase-Riboud opens up new possibilities in sculpture, combining bronze with silk and wool, creating pieces whose solidity and fluidity do not contradict one another, but rather create a new, mobile form, at once human and abstract.


Named after a collection of Barbara Chase-Riboud's poetry, published in 2014, the exhibition "Everytime A Knot is Undone, A God is Released" is spread across eight sites. It gives visitors a host of opportunities to come into contact with the artist's work, through sculpture, drawing, and poems created from 1958 up to the present day.

Accordéon
  1. Monday Closed
  2. Tuesday 9.30am - 6.00pm
  3. Wednesday 9.30am - 6.00pm
  4. Thursday 9.30am - 9.45pm
  5. Friday 9.30am - 6.00pm
  6. Saturday 9.30am - 6.00pm
  7. Sunday 9.30am - 6.00pm
Musée d'Orsay
Salon de l'horloge
Pavillon Amont, Niveau 5
Map & itinerary
Tarifs
Time slot full rate
€16
Time slot reduced rate
€13
Enfant & Cie
€13
Nocturne rate
€12
-18 year olds, -26 year old residents of the EEA
Free