Journée d’étude : « Le rôle de la sculpture dans les arts décoratifs parisiens » (Mons, 29 août 2015)

The role of sculpture in the Parisian decorative arts (Mons, 29 Aug 15) Mons, Belgium, August 29, 2015

Registration deadline: Aug 26, 2015 International Conference on the occasion of « Mons capitale européenne de la culture 2015 »

The role of sculpture in the design, production collecting and display of Parisian decorative arts in Europe (1715-1815)

Saturday 29 August 2015,

9.45 am – 6.30 pm With special thanks to the Galerie Kraemer, Paris, for its support on the occasion of its 140th anniversary in 2015 Maison de la Mémoire de Mons, ancien couvent des Sœurs Noires, rue des Sœurs Noires 2, accessible via the porch on rue du Grand Trou Oudart, Mons

9.00-10.00   Registration and coffee

9.45-10.00   Welcome and introduction Jean Schils/Werner Oechslin/Léon Lock Session 1: Sculpture as a theme / sculpture as an object, within French decorative arts Chair:     Guilhem Scherf, Musée du Louvre, Paris

10.00-10.25   Luca Raschèr, Koller Auktionen, Zürich, Humanité et bestiaire en bronze sur les meubles français du XVIIIe siècle 10.30-10.55   Dr Charles Avery, Cambridge, An elephantine rivalry: the ménagerie clocks of Saint-Germain and Caffiéri

11.00-11.25   Virginie Desrante, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, Petite sculpture et objets de luxe, le biscuit de Sèvres – une révolution esthétique

11.30-11.55   Xavier Duquenne, Brussels, Le sculpteur de la cour Augustin Ollivier, de Marseille, au Palais de Charles de Lorraine à Bruxelles

11.55-12.15   Discussion

12.15-13.10   Lunch Session 2: The role of the sculptor within the design and production processes Chair:     tbc

13.15-13.40   Jean-Dominique Augarde, Centre de Recherches Historiques sur les Maîtres Ébénistes, Paris, De Houdon à Prud’hon, la collaboration entre sculpteurs et bronziers d’ameublement de 1760 à 1820

13.45-14.10   Audrey Gay-Mazuel, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Du dessin au montage, les sculpteurs dans l’atelier de l’orfèvre parisien Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763-1850)

14.15-14.40   Jean-Baptiste Corne, Ecole du Louvre/Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Le sculpteur ornemaniste à la veille de la Révolution. Une condition sociale en mutation?

14.40-15.00   Discussion

15.00-15.30   Coffee break

Session 3: French sculptural decorative arts in international perspective Chair:     Prof Dr Dr h.c.mult. Werner Oechslin, ETH Zürich/ SBWO Einsiedeln

15.30-15.55   Dr Léon Lock, University of Leuven, Comment la rocaille parisienne conquit Munich. Le rôle de l’architecte et ornemaniste François Cuvilliés (Soignies 1695 – Munich 1768)

16.00-16.25   Guido Jan Bral, Brussels, Les ducs d’Arenberg, mécènes des arts décoratifs parisiens à Bruxelles (1765-1820)

16.30-16.55   Sir Timothy Clifford, Former Director, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Title to be confirmed.

16.55-17.15   Conclusions and discussion

17.15-18.30   Reception

REGISTRATION Free for members of the Low Countries Sculpture Society and of the Maison de la Mémoire of Mons, but registration compulsory: info [at] lcsculpture [dot] org. Seating limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Non-members €25 per person. OPTIONAL LUNCH Full sit-down on-site lunch €25 per person, to be booked and paid in advance. Closing date for lunch applications and payments: Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 12 noon. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL FROM PARIS Hotel rooms have been pre-booked for foreign participants. Anyone wishing to take over these reservations, please contact us. A limited number of train tickets from Paris to Valenciennes and back (with transfer by car to/from Mons) is also available. PAYMENTS By bank transfer or by credit card (details/forms available on request) GALA EVENING ON FRIDAY 28 AUGUST Those who register for the international conference, will receive an invitation to attend the Gala Evening organised the night before in a spectacular country house not far from Mons. This evening will see the launch of the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Library Appeal.