2023-09-19 04:52:16
Kamel Mennour, founder of the eponymous gallery, and Sylvie Patry, defector from the Musée d’Orsay, now artistic director of the Mennour gallery and pillar of its Mennour Institute. © kamel mennour. All rights reserved.
INFO LE FIGARO. University ambition claimed for the Parisian gallery which wants to support research and its students. And further open contemporary art to all audiences.
When galleries take themselves and art history seriously, they behave like pygmalions of the university. And as teachers for all audiences. And so, after a studious summer for Sylvie Patry, defector from the Musée d’Orsay after twenty years of public service at the Mennour gallery, just a year ago, this Parisian gallery which is exhibited at three addresses in Saint-Germain- des-Prés (6th) and one in the golden triangle of Avenue Matignon (8th), changes shape, scale and nature. She “announces the launch of the Mennour Institute, which brings together the numerous initiatives of the gallery and its founder, Kamel Mennour, to support creation and its dissemination to as many people as possible.”
Democratize art
The stated objective, and even claimed, is the democratization of art and its better understanding by increasing “the accessibility of contemporary art to all generations — like the “Mennour Family” visiting program which invites young people to discover Saturday with…
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