THE LaM,

THE LaM,
A FLAGSHIP MUSEUM IN NORTHERN EUROPE
THE LaM
TODAY
At the crossroads of London, Paris and Brussels and within easy reach of Amsterdam and Cologne, the LaM has earned its place as one of the flagship museums in Northern Europe.
With over 7,000 showpieces and three collections – including a unique selection of Art Brut – it
is the only museum to present the main components of 20th and 21st century art in one place.
Displayed across three dedicated departments, the LaM’s collections take you from gallery to
gallery on a journey beginning with modern art and ending with Art Brut, taking in contemporary
art along the way.
Each of these sections gives you a chance to admire iconic works of art, all the while progressing
subtly from one theme to another.
In parallel, two major temporary exhibitions are on display in the spring and autumn and a private
collection is hosted at the LaM in the summer months.
MODERN
ART
AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF MODERN ART,
THE GENEVIÈVE & JEAN MASUREL DONATION
Roger Dutilleul began one of the most representative private original collections in modern
art history from the first half of the 20th century. Cubism features prominently, alongside
Fauvist and Surrealist drawings and paintings as well as series of works by figurative artists
from the School of Paris, artists from the North and Naïve painting.
There are over 500 modern works of art in this collection, covering most of the major art
movements that developed in France in the first half of the 20th century. This collection
includes such artists as: Georges Braque, Bernard Buffet, André Derain, Eugène Dodeigne,
Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, André Lanskoy, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Eugène
Leroy, André Masson, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault and Kees Van Dongen.
The museum also boasts one of the largest collections of work by Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani, Seated woman with child, 1919. Loan from the Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de Création industrielle to the LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. (c) DR. / Pablo Picasso,
Seated nude man, 1908-1909. Geneviève & Jean Masurel donation to the LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: P. Bernard. (c) Picasso estate, 2015 / Fernand Léger, Woman with bouquet, 1924.
Geneviève & Jean Masurel donation to the LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: Muriel Anssens (c) Adagp Paris, 2015 / Kees Van Dongen, Full-lipped woman, circa 1909. Geneviève & Jean
Masurel donation to the LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: Jacques Hoepffner. (c) Adagp Paris, 2015.
CONTEMPORARY
ART
AN EXEMPLARY COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART
The LaM’s collection of contemporary art is organised around a range of key themes – one of
them being the idea of the encyclopaedia, or classification of the facts, things and images that
our civilisation produces. This is illustrated by major Art & Language installations by Alighiero
Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Matt Mullican and Annette Messager, which are put on regular
display in the museum’s contemporary rooms.
How we relate to an object, its shape, nature and replicas is another (Daniel Buren, Bertrand
Lavier and Allan McCollum for example).
Lastly, an artist’s commitment to or direct involvement in what’s going on in the world today,
with a view to transforming it or attributing new uses, behaviours or practices to it, is conveyed
through pivotal works by Georges Adéagbo, Lewis Baltz, Chris Burden, Mohamed El Baz,
Robert Filliou and Dennis Oppenheim among others.
With the arrival of the Art Brut collection alongside the modern and contemporary art collections,
some of the works featured can be considered in a new context – for example those by Ghada
Amer, Georges Adéagbo, Hannah Collins, Mohammed El Baz, Robert Filliou, Gérard Gasiorowski
or Jean-Michel Sanejouand – by shedding light on their unique way of seeing the world.
Enriching this collection is a selection of paintings or sculptures by the main figures of 1950s
to 1990s abstract art (including Martin Barré, Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon, Daniel Dezeuze,
Gérard Duchêne and Pierre Soulages) and figurative art (such as Bernard Buffet, Eugène
Dodeigne and Eugène Leroy), which challenge the artistic act from the point of view of both its
language and expressions.
Barry Flanagan, The Boxing Ones, 1985. Photo: Nicolas Dewitte / LaM © Waddington Galleries, London / Mimmo Rotella, Colossal, 1962. LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq.
Photo: P. Bernard (c) Adagp Paris, 2015 / Allan McCollum, Perfect Vehicles, 1988. LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: N. Dewitte / LaM (c) Allan McCollum / Jean-Michel
Sanejouand, in the foreground, Sculpture Board, 1999. In the background, On Either Side, Triad, 1990. Collection Cnap, Paris-La Défense. Photo: N.Dewitte / LaM (c)
J.M. Sanejouand
ART
BRUT
THE ONLY PUBLIC COLLECTION OF ART BRUT IN FRANCE,
THE L’ ARACINE DONATION
Nowadays, the notion of Art Brut which Jean Dubuffet invented in 1945 can be seen as a
phenomenon of 20th century art in its own right, and many artists continue to look to it for
inspiration and guidance in their techniques and approaches even today. The museum currently
has the largest public collection of Art Brut in France. It seeks to showcase it at regular intervals
through monographic or thematic exhibitions, and to lend it to exhibitions all over the world. The
L’Aracine donation is made up of 3,500 such works by 170 French and foreign artists: drawings,
paintings, assemblages, objects and sculptures.
The museum routinely adds to this collection thanks to donations or through its acquisition policy,
and the greatest names in the Art Brut world can be found here, including Aloïse Corbaz, Fleury
Joseph Crépin, Henry Darger, Auguste Forestier, l’Abbé Fouré, Madge Gill, Jules Leclercq,
Augustin Lesage, Michel Nedjar, André Robillard, Willem Van Genk, Josué Virgili, Adolf Wölfli
and Carlo Zinelli.
The L’Aracine Art Brut donation is on show in the new exhibition galleries built by Manuelle
Gautrand, where 400 works, paintings, drawings and sculptures are exhibited. The displays of
works on paper and fabric are rotated every four months because of their vulnerability to light.
Aloïse Corbaz, Oscar, 1948 Photo: C. Dubart. © D.R./ Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve, Queen Victoria, n. d. LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: P.Bernard. (c)
DR. / André Robillard, Collection of guns, circa 1999. LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: P; Bernard (c) Adagp Paris, 2015
THE
PARK
A REMARKABLE ARCHITECTURAL SIGNATURE
SET WITHIN A SCULPTURE PARK
2 architectural styles...
The first LaM building was built in 1983 by the architect Roland Simounet. Over 25 years later, the
museum took on a new look with an extension to house the new Art Brut donation. The architect
Manuelle Gautrand designed this extension in the shape of a hand, curling delicately up against
the original building, and the overall effect bestows a quite remarkable architectural signature on
the LaM. This plays a significant part in enhancing the exceptional works that can be found within.
… set within a sculpture park
Continue your visit to the LaM outdoors in its sculpture park (where you’ll come across such
artists as Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso and Richard Deacon). This enjoyable place to wander
and unwind bustles with open-air screenings, thematic tours, bike rides and all sorts come the
summer…
Pablo Picasso, Woman with Outstretched Arms, 1962. Loan from the Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de Création industrielle to the LaM,
Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: M. Lerouge / LMCU (c) Picasso estate / Alexander Calder, Reims, Southern Cross, 1969. Loan from the Musée national d’art
moderne/Centre de Création industrielle to the LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq. Photo: M. Lerouge / LMCU (c) Adagp Paris, 2015
THE
EXHIBITIONS
RICH AND EXCITING 2015 AND 2016 SEASONS
Spring 2015 > Aloïse Corbaz in constellation
Art Brut exhibition on display from 14 February to 10 May 2015
Summer 2015 > The agnès b. collection in the spotlight
Contemporary art exhibition on display from 12 June to 23 August 2015
Autumn 2015 > There where the day begins
Contemporary art exhibition on display from 2 October 2015 to 10 January 2016
Spring 2016 > Amedeo Modigliani, a retrospective
Modern art exhibition on display from 26 February to 5 June 2016
Autumn 2016 > Luc Tuymans
Contemporary art exhibition (dates to be confirmed)
Amedeo Modigliani, Seated woman in blue dress, 1917-1919. Collection Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Photo: Moderna Museet, Stockholm
/ Claude Lévêque, Untitled (Dance!), 1995. Collection agnès b. / Ismaïl Bahri, Line, 2011. Courtesy Ismaïl Bahri and Les filles du calvaire
Gallery, Paris. (c) Ismaïl Bahri, 2015
The caférestaurant
The GiftBookshop
The café-restaurant at the LaM is open all day for visitors. Come and choose from a selection
of dishes that change with the seasons, or tuck into a set menu
of daily specials fresh from the market.
The restaurant is a lovely place to relax, and turns into a tea room in the afternoon.
The LaM’s gift-bookshop sells a selection of books about the museum, its collections and about
modern art, Art Brut and contemporary art.
For enquiries or booking > +33 (0)3 20 67 77 48 / [email protected]
For enquiries > +33 (0)3 20 64 38 27 / [email protected]
There is also an array of contemporary gift ideas, from fashion accessories to designer items.
Photo of the room The Pathways of Art Brut. Photo: M. Lerouge / Lille Métropole
LaM
facts &
figures
No. 3 museum in the rankings of «medium-sized towns» (between 20,000 and 200,000 inhabitants)
in the Journal des Arts Palmarès des musées (Best Museums) 2013.
No. 1 regional museum in the Journal des Arts Best Museums 2012, 6th place nationwide (after the
Centre Pompidou, Quai Branly, Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs) and 1st
place for visitor services.
- 23,000 sq.m. park
- the auditorium seats 96
- 11,000 sq.m. total surface area
- 1 gift-bookshop
- 3,200 sq.m. extension designed by Manuelle Gautrand
- the café-restaurant caters for 100
- 4,000 sq.m. exhibition space
- 3 collections
- 1,100 sq.m. given over to Art Brut
- 7,000 showpieces
- 950 sq.m. given over to modern art
- 10 sculptures in the park
- 600 sq.m. given over to contemporary art
- 1,000 sq.m. of temporary exhibition space
Over 700,000 visitors since it opened on 25 Sept. 2010
Photo of the room, Picasso, Léger, Masson: Daniel Henry Kahnweiler and his painters. Photo: C. Bonamis
Useful
Information
Preparing your visit
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Full price for the Collections + Exhibition: €10 / discounted price: €7 / free.
Free access on the first Sunday of every month.
New: free, unlimited access for C’Art ! passholders Videoguide: €2.
The LaM is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and from 9 a.m. for groups.
Closed on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December.
The LaM park can be accessed at your leisure from Tuesday to Sunday,
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
By road
There is a LaM application for iOS and Android.
20 min. from Lille Flandres train station, Paris-Ghent motorways (A1/A22/N227),
It can be downloaded from the Apple Store and Google Play.
junction 5 or 6 signposted Flers / Château / Musée d’art moderne
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Full price for just the Collections: €7 / discounted price: €5 / free.
Getting here
Book a visit for a pre-organised group
By public transport: why not take Transpole!
metro line 1, station Pont de Bois + Liane 4, towards Halluin Gounod, get off at the L.A.M.
Mondays to Fridays from 9.30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1.30 p.m. to
stop, or metro line 2, station Fort de Mons + bus 59, towards Contrescarpe, get off at
5 p.m. (except on Monday mornings).
the L.A.M. stop
+33 (0)3 20 19 68 88 /85 – [email protected]
Address
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The Dominique Bozo library
LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut 1 allée du
Tuesdays to Fridays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and the morning by appointment, as well as Musée
the first Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq - France
+33 (0)3 20 19 68 98 - [email protected]
Tel. : +33 (0)3 20 19 68 68 / 51 - Fax: +33 (0)3 20 19 68 99 - [email protected]