From November 6, 2025 to April 5, 2026, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès presents Éclats du crépuscule, an exhibition by Camille Fischer, François Génot and Nicolas Schneider at La Grande Place, Musée Saint-Louis.
The exhibition is the second installment of a new four-show program curated by the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS), appointed to oversee La Grande Place from 2025 to 2027. The three participating artists, all based in eastern France, bring together practices spanning sculpture, textiles, engraving and installation.
Structured like a musical score, the exhibition unfolds in four distinct movements, each shaping a different atmosphere. A slow and rising prelude introduces artworks that connect the subterranean and the celestial through references to geological forces. From there, the tempo slips into a melancholic adagio — a curious, hybrid garden where materials shimmer or scrape against one another. The rhythm then accelerates into an energetic allegretto, capturing the surge of water and fire, as if in the aftermath of an eruption. The final sequence softens into silence, contemplating ruin, what remains, and what might return.
Throughout this twilight arc, the artists’ works resonate in compelling counterpoint: Schneider’s drawn, engraved and forged forms converse with Génot’s ceramics, charred remnants and gathered grasses, while Fischer introduces a poetic fountain and cascades of embroidered linens and silks — all installed within display cases that seem to hold the day’s last glow before night.
Since 2014, Hermès has transformed La Grande Place into a platform where contemporary creation meets craftsmanship, developed in collaboration with regional cultural institutions and with the participation of the historic Saint-Louis crystalworks. Following earlier partnerships with Centre Pompidou-Metz, Frac Lorraine, the Synagogue de Delme and Vent des Forêts, this new exhibition cycle with MAMCS — inaugurated with a show dedicated to Gretel Weyer — continues to champion artists nurtured by the region’s vibrant creative ecosystem, under the curatorship of Estelle Pietrzyk.
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