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The new exhibition at the Cabinet des Dessins et Estampes - Jean Bonna in Beaux-Arts de Paris focuses on Michelangelo to explore the concepts of influence and transmission.

Michelangelo holds a special place in the pantheon of great artists: his work, unanimously admired and based on unprecedented originality, resists those who seek to find perfection in it.
In the 19th century, Michelangelo became an essential reference because he was the archetype of the 'artist-magician', according to Rodin's expression, who sought in his creations the mysterious springs of his own creativity.

After Michelangelo brings together some forty works – drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures – from collections that reveal the various ways in which the "divine" Michelangelo has been studied, copied, viewed or reinterpreted since the Renaissance, and particularly in the 19th century, by Géricault, Carpeaux and Rodin. The exhibition is enriched by works created for the exhibition by students of nine professors who have come together for this project: Pascale Accoyer, Claude Closky, Clément Cogitore, Frédérique Loutz, Jack McNiven, Guillaume Paris, Philippe Renault, Daniel Schlier and Valérie Sonnier.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and will be followed by an event from 9 to 11 April 2026, bringing together art historians, heritage specialists, students and professors from Beaux-Arts de Paris to discuss the reception of this immense figure of the Italian Renaissance in France. Full programme available here soon.

CURATION

Alice Thomine-Berrada, Head of Collections at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Estelle Lambert, Curator of Prints and Manuscripts at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

AMONG THE ARTISTS

Domenico del Barbiere, Guillaume Boichot, Léon Bonnat, Numa Boucoiran, Adolphe Braun, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Alphonse Chamson, Jacques Louis David, Étienne Delaune, Mathias Duval, Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, Jacques Édouard Gatteaux, Théodore Géricault, Alexandre Charles Guillemot, Hermann Heid, Louis Alexis Jamar, Paul Lepage, Charles Marville, Raffaele da Montelupo, Alphonse Antoine Montfort, Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Joseph Théodore Richomme, Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Auguste Rodin, Martino Rota, Henri Joseph François de Triqueti, François Joseph Toussaint Uchard...

Caption: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Étude d'après un détail du plafond de la Chapelle Sixtine de Michel-Ange, XIX^e siècle, plume et encre brune sur papier, 11,5 x 18,7 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris

The result of a series of discussions on the growing role of poetry in contemporary artistic practices, the exhibition Des mots et des mondes considers writing as a plastic material in its own right.

Faced with a constant flow of information, artists do not seek to say more, but to say things differently, through sensitive, unique and contextualised forms. Words then become vectors of personal or collective emancipation, embodied in assemblages, positionings, semantic shifts and resolutely poetic reconfigurations.

Drawing on works from the collections of Beaux-Arts de Paris, contemporary creations and the work of students and teachers, Des mots et des mondes questions the power of words in the construction of narratives, knowledge and imaginations. While words can name, classify and order reality, they are also capable of shifting and transforming it, opening up new possibilities. The exhibition follows a movement from classification to speculation, from inherited frameworks – scientific, colonial, religious or institutional – to marginalised, rewritten or reinvented narratives.

Far removed from a linear and stabilised history of art, artists investigate, collect, recompose and invent: words become tools for bringing fragmented memories and marginalised subjectivities to the fore. From crisis to utopia, from history to individual trajectories, from reality to imagination, the exhibition reveals words as places of tension, but also as spaces for sharing, bringing hope and emancipation. Poetic, manifestos or fragile, words to connect, build community, transmit, fight.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, a programme of events and a study day to be held on Wednesday 20 May 2026.

CURATION

Mélanie Bouteloup and Armelle Pradalier, jointly responsible of the « Artistes & Métiers de l’exposition » programme.

With the participation of students from the programme : Jeyni Ba, Louise Baranger-Léonard, Mickaël Berdugo, Clémence Carel, Jules Charabouska, Armel Cotinat-Flynn, Sybille de Roquemaurel, Maëva Delettre, Eve Farache, Rafael Garcia Lara, Lucie Gholam, Sacha Kheireddine, Albane Liébel, Joséphine Loembe-Sauthat, Arthi Pauly-Bertonneau, Laura Rutishauser, Tara Sammouri, Becem Sediri, Suzanne Vallejo Gomez, Léa Zarrad.

Scientific coordination for collections : Estelle Lambert, curator of prints and manuscripts at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Associate lecturers : Anne Bourse, Stéphane Calais, Claude Closky, Julien Creuzet, Tristan Garcia, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Bruno Perramant et Chloé Quenum.

Thanks to the teams at the Beaux-Arts de Paris contemporary art library for their help in selecting artists' books, especially Amel Hamidou for her valuable advice.

WITH THE ARTISTS

Mayssa Abdelaziz, Youssef Abdelké, Amal Abdenour, Shafic Abboud, Tassiana Aït-Tahar, Hala Alabdalla, Himat M. Ali, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Chadine Amghar, Xavier Antin, Pseudo-Aristote, Claude Aveline, Omar Ba, Babi Badalov, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Francis Barlow, Antoine-Louis Barye, William Basseux, Pietro Bertelli, Judith Blum Reddy, Alexander Boghossian, Salomé Botella, Jules Bourgoin, Anne Bourse, Myriam Boukrit, Yassin Bouzid & Mohamed Sadk Kaffel, Rodolphe Bresdin, Marcel Broodthaers, Stéphane Calais, Saul Calcagni, Ferdinand Carlier, Minna Castrén, Henri Chetaille, Claude Closky, Guy de Cointet, Lucas Cranach l’Ancien, Julien Creuzet, Bady Dalloul, Honoré Daumier, Odonchimeg Davaadorj, Isaac de Crécy, Brune de Soto, Li Deshayes-Parré, Céleste Desplanche, François Desprez, Idriss Diabaté, Georgette Diallo, Ndidi Dike, Fringues de Dingues, Dornac, Clara Duflot, Dizy Durand-Gnougnou, Claudine Eizykman, Irène Fanshawe, Nicolas Faubert (Kryzastylz), Lucy Citti Ferreira, Robert Filliou, Brandon Gercara, Adolphe Giraudon, Gloria Glitzer, Cléopatra Gones, Cily Gonzalez, Jean-Jacques Grandville, Juliette Green, Joseph Grigely, Robert Groborne, Guichoune de Berroeta, Abraham Hadad, Te Ata Hapaitahaa-Conroy, Adam Henein, Christine Herzer, Katsushika Hokusai, Daniel Hopfer, Anna Jaccoud, Jean-Yves Jouannais, William Kentridge, Manabu Kōchi, Ndayé Kouagou, Elie Laflorencie, Christian Lattier, Jules Laurens, Lou Le Forban, Maëlle Lucas-Le Garrec, Stéphane Le Mercier, Seulgi Lee, Anouk Léger, Lucille Leger, Htein Lin, Lee Lozano, Pierre Loti, Prosper-Georges-Antoine Marilhat, Léonard Martin, Raban Maur, Soanie Marie-Rose, Lydia Matiegou-Keïta, Chloé Menous, Annette Messager, Dimitri Milbrun, Nuria Mokhtar, Bruno Perramant, Mathis Pettenati, Michalis Pichler, Clarisse Pillard, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi, Marius Plaksine, Monique Poncelet, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Loïs Rambeau, Guy Rambouts, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Hubert Renard, Anne Rochette, Stéphanie Saadé, Nadia Saïkali, Clément Schaab, Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, Pascal Sébah, Vega Serafina, Cécil Serres, Darja Shatalova, Wanrong Song, Camille Soualem, Daniel Spoerri, Lorenz Stoër, Ieva Stankuté, Christine Sun Kim, Antoni Tàpies, Colombe Thaller, Lalie Thébault-Maviel & Maéva Prigent, Théodore Valério, Lê Văn Đê, Egon Van Herreweghe, Cecilia Vicuña, Adrianna Wallis, Hans Weigel l'Aîné, Dominique Willoughby, Jacques Yankel, Pan Yuliang, Mia Yu, Ossip Zadkine, Radouan Zeghidour.

With the support of Société Générale.
Graphic design : Halldora Magnusdottir

Jacques Herzog is the Centre Pompidou's distinguished guest for the L'entour seminar, bringing together Beaux-Arts de Paris, École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL, École des arts décoratifs – PSL and Pavillon Bosio.

Jacques Herzog is the Centre Pompidou's distinguished guest for the L'entour seminar, bringing together Beaux-Arts de Paris, École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL, École des arts décoratifs – PSL and Pavillon Bosio.

The new exhibition at the Cabinet des Dessins et Estampes - Jean Bonna in Beaux-Arts de Paris focuses on Michelangelo to explore the concepts of influence and transmission.

The result of a series of discussions on the growing role of poetry in contemporary artistic practices, the exhibition Des mots et des mondes considers writing as a plastic material in its own right.

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