Marc Restellini
| Marc Restellini | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 June 1964 Saint-Omer (France) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation |
Art historian Director of museum and Founder of the Pinacothèque de Paris Expert on Amedeo Modigliani |
| Website | www |
Art historian Director of museum and Founder of the Pinacothèque de Paris
Marc Restellini (born 24 June 1964) is a French art historian, museum director, founder of the Pinacothèque de Paris and an expert on Amedeo Modigliani.
Marc Restellini is a French art historian and museum director. Born in 1964 in Saint-Omer, in Pas-de-Calais, his grandfather was the painter Issac Antcher. Restellini earned a degree in history, then a DEA in art history at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he later became a lecturer from 1988 to 1993. His thesis at the Sorbonne focused on the painters represented by Leopold Zborowski, the famous art dealer.
He organized his very first exhibition Portraits et paysages chez Zborowski (Portraits and Landscapes of Zborowski) in 1989 at the City Hall of the 6th district in Paris.
In 1992, Marc Restellini organized Tobu Art Museum’s opening exhibition in Tokyo, the first significant exhibition gathering a selection of Modigliani’s masterpieces ever showed in Japan. Through more than 10 years, he perfected a specific system for the roving exhibitions that enabled the production of ambitious projects, while remaining accessible to wide audiences in Asia and Europe. Exhibitions of this nature included the Tobu Museum in Tokyo and in the Municipal Museum in Osaka with productions like Kiki, Reine de Montparnasse (1998), Georges Rouault (1998), From Fra Angelico to Bonnard, The Artpieces of Dr Raw’s private Collection (1999) which then travelled internationally, Sisley (2000) and Redon (2001) just to mention a few.
Parallelly, Marc Restellini curated milestone art exhibitions at an international scale with always making a point of giving a substantial dimension to any retrospective he orchestrated : Zborowski’s painters exhibition inaugurated at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne for its 10th Anniversary (1994), Georges Rouault’s (1997) and Modigliani’s retrospectives (1999) at the Modern Art Museum of Lugano in Switzerland, and Picasso’s exhibition at the National Museum of Bogota (2000) inaugurated in the presence of M. Jacques Chirac and the French Ambassy. As the Art Director and Project Manager of the Modern Art Department of the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris from June 2000 to June 2003, Marc Restellini curated outstanding exhibitions such as Raphaël’s retrospective in 2001 and Modigliani’s retrospective in 2002 showcasing 110 art pieces that both hit record numbers of visitors.
In 2003, Marc Restellini decided to launch his own museum, the Pinacothèque de Paris with an exceptional exhibition of Picasso’s artworks, a real masterstroke in the cultural policy and the French Museum landscape acknowledged by the media and praised by the public. This was an unsual institution in Paris, a place where exhibition and dialogue between art forms occurred. Located at Place de la Madeleine, the Pinacothèque de Paris was very soon highly successful and in 2010, Restellini opened a second collection.
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