Exhibition

Andrea Branzi

Name: Andrea Branzi - The Realm of the Living
Start: 2025-07-11
End: 2025-11-02

The Realm of the Living

11 Jul - 2 Nov 2025

Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny

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Andrea Branzi, « Germinal Seat », 2022. - © Adagp, Paris - Crédit photographique : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

As a major figure in the history of design and architecture, Andrea Branzi was fascinated by the work of Claude Monet, painted as he designed his garden in Giverny, an “artificial landscape” in which nature, painting and architecture all converse.

Andrea Branzi, « Germinal Seat », 2022. - © Adagp, Paris - Crédit photographique : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

The “Andrea Branzi, the Realm of the Living” exhibition explores this notion of “artificial nature” and prompts us to question the relationship between design and nature. It comprises a unique set of major historic pieces from the Centre Pompidou collection, as well as previously unseen works from the archives of the Branzi family in Milan.

When he passed away in 2023, Andrea Branzi was working on a fountain for the garden at the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms, a project that he unfortunately left incomplete. In agreement with his family, the museum decided to acquire Fontana Albero, a work from 1998, which has joined Fils d’eau (1998) by Giuseppe Penone this year, as well as Edera and Bois des nymphes, commissioned from Éva Jospin in 2021, in a poetic trail where contemporary art and the garden’s vegetation intertwine harmoniously.

Alongside this exhibition, the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms presents “The Garden Collections”, a themed display of its collection, in which the influence of Monet can be seen throughout the 20^th century, from Pierre Bonnard to Joan Mitchell.

€13 / Concessions: €10

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