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The team and the Board of Fondation Toms Pauli wish you an excellent 2026 and invite you to discover the works from its two collections, presented in three exhibitions.
Metamorphoses, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Fondation Toms Pauli is loaning three ancient tapestries for the Rijksmuseum’s Metamorphoses exhibition. Among them, two remarkable tapestries stand out for their exceptional state of preservation as well as for their artistic and historical significance. They are part of the Story of Apollo series, also called the Barberini Metamorphoses, and depict Latona Transforming the Lycian Peasants into Frogs and Apollo and Daphne. Both tapestries were woven in the workshops established in Rome by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VII and a great patron of tapestry.
This ensemble also features a rare tapestry, The Rape of Europa, from the Metamorphoses of La Hyre series, woven in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel workshops, around 1650-1670. Prior to the creation of the Royal Gobelins Manufactory, this was one of the three major private Parisian workshops which at the time brought together the finest craftsmen. The tapestry thus bears witness to an important yet relatively little-known period in the development of tapestry history.
Associated with elites as a marker of social status, these tapestries also reflect their interest in the texts of Ovid.
Une nouvelle tapisserie dans le parcours permanent du MCBA
Après avoir été exposé pendant près d'une année dans le parcours permanent du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Le Concert laisse place à un autre trésor des collections de la Fondation Toms Pauli : une tapisserie bruxelloise du XVIIe siècle représentant Vespasien et Titus acclamés.
La Fondation Toms Pauli conserve cinq tapisseries de l’histoire de Titus et Vespasien dont deux, L’Assaut d’une ville et Le Triomphe de Titus et Vespasien, sont actuellement présentées dans l’exposition Tisser son Temps au mudac. Ainsi, l'accrochage de Vespasien et Titus acclamés témoigne de la collaboration entre les institutions de Plateforme 10 et de leur désir d'offrir aux visiteurs une programmation de qualité. N'hésitez pas à venir découvrir ou redécouvrir cette tapisserie d'exception !
Magdalena Abakanowicz, the Thread of Existence Musée Bourdelle, Paris
Following presentations in London, Lausanne, Oslo, Warsaw, and more recently in Tilburg and ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Musée Bourdelle in Paris will host a major exhibition devoted to Magdalena Abakanowicz. Through the loan of eight significant works—reliefs and spatial forms—Fondation Toms Pauli contributes to the curatorial ambition of emphasising the sculptural dimension of the Polish artist’s oeuvre. The Paris exhibition is staged in the home-workshop of Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor and drawing teacher at the Gobelins manufactory, whose pupil Maria Łaszkiewicz enabled Abakanowicz to realise her first large-format tapestries for the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication in French.