Through a hundred or so emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, Les yeux dans les yeux orchestrates a confrontation with faces from the past and present, both real and imagined.
Until 14 September 2025.
Following Debout! (2018), Au-delà de la couleur (2021) and Forever Sixties (2023), the Pinault Collection, the City of Rennes and Rennes Métropole are renewing their collaboration with a thematic exhibition entitled Les yeux dans les yeux from 10 June to 14 September 2025, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais.
The facts speak for themselves: more than half the works in the Pinault Collection, in all media, deal with the human figure. Through this primordial subject, the artists bring us face to face with our fellow human beings, whose appearance - and much more - has been immortalised through painting, drawing, photography or film: through the eyes of another. Nearly 80 works from the Pinault Collection have been chosen for this exhibition, which orchestrates a confrontation between faces. All of them say something about the history and relevance of a constantly renewed genre. Les yeux dans les yeux" traverses the history of art, speaking to us of our relationship with the image of ourselves and others, and invoking the idea of disappearance and the impossibility, at times, of capturing a face, an expression, a spirit, an attitude. Masked glances mingle with frank ones, and intimacy ends up rubbing shoulders with eternity.
The exhibition catalogue follows thematic development of the exhibition at the Couvent des Jacobins:
- "Playing with gender", with works by Annie Leibovitz and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
- "The stage and the screen", with works by Cindy Sherman and Irving Penn in particular
- "Impossible Portraits", with works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Luc Tuymans and Miriam Cahn, among others
- "Masks and skins", with works by ORLAN, Thomas Schütte and Florian Krewer
- "Exploring the Intimate", with works by Nan Goldin, Edward Steichen and Xinyi Cheng, among others
- "From intimacy to eternity" with Rudolf Stingel, Yan Pei-Ming and Victor Man.
The images are accompanied by short texts on the works, a general introduction by Jean-Marie Gallais, interviews with some of the artists (Xinyi Cheng, Luc Tuymans, Annie Leibovitz and Claire Tabouret) and a text by Itzhak Goldberg.
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