EXPERIENCE GOYA Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille From 15 October 2021 to 14 February 2022 The exhibition Experience Goya, produced by the Rmn Grand Palais and the Palais des Beaux- Arts de Lille, invited visitors to explore original, digitised and contemporary works that illustrate the art of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, a genius of all that is beautiful and strange. At the heart of this theatre of images were The Young Women and The Old Women, two enigmatic masterpieces that prompt as many questions as theories, at-times contradictory hypotheses that gave visitors the freedom to interpret the two paintings as they saw fit. Presenting around forty original works by Goya paintings, drawings, engravings , all carefully chosen for their links to The Young Women and The Old Women, the exhibition curated by Régis Cotentin, Head of Contemporary Art at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille and Donatienne

Dujardin, in charge of 16th-18th Century Foreign Paintings at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille also revealed the artist s fascinating influence, from the 19th century (Delacroix, Manet, Ensor) to the 20th century (Salvador Dalí, Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Chapman brothers) as well as film (Carlos Saura, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Guillermo del Toro, etc.). A major exhibition that was first and foremost an experience, with the ground-floor reconstruction of the legendary Villa of the Deaf One, the painter s countryside estate, where Goya painted his famous Black Paintings directly onto the walls. Experience Goya was journey to the heart of Goya s work and his soul; but also an environmentally-friendly exhibition for which the museum has set itself strict rules in terms of sustainable development.

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