the Toulouse Abattoirs Museum gets the public to vote for a participatory exhibition
For the first time, the Musée d’art contemporain des Abattoirs, in Toulouse, offers visitors the opportunity to select three works that they would like to see or see again, among the 62 on offer, in order to constitute an exhibition. Voting is open until January 10.
Do you like the Musée des Abattoirs, contemporary art, and share your impressions of the works? This is for you.
For the first time in its history, the Abattoirs museum de Toulouse is organizing a participatory exhibition. The principle is simple, it is a survey set up in the museum but also on its website. Among 62 works on offer, Internet users can choose three that they would like to see or see again. And the same reason for this choice with a little comment. “Next to the work, we will post the comment that touched, intrigued, surprised us the most.», Indicates the museum team.
Opened in 2000, the Abattoirs de Toulouse keep 3,880 works and objects, dated between 1934 and 2020 for the most recent acquisitions.
In this place dedicated to modern and contemporary art, several collections have been brought together: 20th century collections from the City of Toulouse, the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Contemporary Art Fund, the old arthothèque, deposits from the Center Pompidou and from the National Center for Plastic Arts, but also works from donations from collectors such as Daniel Cordier and Anthony Denney.
Voting for the participatory exhibition opened on December 20 and will end on January 10, 2022. “Your exhibition will open on February 17, 2022 at 6 p.m.“, specifies the museum.
“We hope that those who took part in the curator of this exhibition will come in large numbers to the opening.“, explains Annabelle Ténèze, the director of the museum. It must be said that this process should have taken place in 2020, for the 20 years of the Abattoirs. Initiative thwarted by the health crisis.