Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport: Aéroports de Paris Opens the Espace Musées, with 50 Original Artworks by Auguste RODIN
January 15 2013 - 11:40AM
Business Wire
Aéroports de Paris (Paris:ADP) (Pink Sheets:AEOPF) offers
passengers, in Hall M of Terminal 2E, a free-to-enter museum. This
unique experience is offered to passengers from all over the world
through Espace Musées, a new cultural showcase and a major venue
for the promotion of French artistic heritage.
The first Espace Musées exhibition, "Rodin, the Wings of
Glory", produced in partnership with Rodin Museum features 50
original works by the artist including his masterpieces – le
Penseur (The Thinker), le Baiser (The Kiss) and l'Age d'airain (The
Age of Bronze).
"Our ambition is to offer to passengers that pass through
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport each year an emotionally charged
Parisian excursion, so that the pleasure of their journey starts
right at the airport and so that travellers from all over the world
take a final image of the magic of France away with them," states
Augustin de Romanet, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of
Aéroports de Paris.
The exhibition theme, related to flight, allows to showcase some
less well-known pieces. For the first time, a series of winged
figures and one large wing will be on display, recalling the myth
of the conquest of sky and space, a real challenge for a
sculptor.
To create Espace Musées, Aéroports de Paris enlisted the help of
the best specialists: Francis Briest, co-director of the Artcurial
auction house, with whom Aéroports de Paris initiated the project
and who manages Espace Musées endowment fund, Serge Lemoine, former
chairman of Musée d'Orsay, who is the artistic director for all the
exhibitions, Nelson Wilmotte of Nelson Wilmotte Architectes, who
devised the Space architecture with assistance from Wilmotte &
Associés agency.
The Espace Musées is accessible to passengers free of charge
from the first to the last flight and will organize two thematic
exhibitions each year.
With an exceptional geographic location and a major catchment
area, the Group is pursuing its strategy of adapting and
modernizing its terminal facilities and upgrading quality of
services, and also intends to develop its retail and real estate
business. In 2011, the group revenue stood at €2,502 million and
the net income at €348 million.
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