These images were taken when the Musée d’Orsay in Paris allowed Nicolas Krief to photograph the preparations for its exhibition L’ange du bizarre. They are part of a larger work where the photographer looks behind the scenes of major public exhibitions.
The focus here is on the men and women who hang the art exhibitions, and the relationship to the museum object, at once an object of devotion and a precious good. It is also, more prosaically, a working material. The photographer offers an original vision of these works, usually presented in ways that make them seem sacred, while capturing the theatricality of the gestures and attitudes of those charged with handling them.
L’ange du bizarre
Le romantisme noir from Goya to Max Ersnt
Until June 9th, 2013
Musée d’Orsay
5 Quai Anatole France
75007 Paris
France
01 40 49 48 14
