Author Description

The Musee d'Orsay invites contemporary artists to dialogue with its collections by picking a work they feel close to. This is an oppoortunity to see the collections in a fresh light. A French artist born in 1941, since 1973 Claude Rutault has been devising definitions/methods based on a principle similar to a set of instructions, a kind of user's manual for the work intended for collectors, exhibition curators etc. With Seurat's Homage to Puvis de Chavannes, Rutault proposes to update this principle, again raising the issue of tributes in the history of art.