The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris invites visitors to revisit the history of modernity in the 20th century through the imaginary world of the atom. The exhibition invites visitors to explore the artistic representations sparked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb, whose devastating consequences changed the fate of humanity. Bringing together nearly 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations), as well as documentation that has often been previously unpublished, the exhibition shows, for the first time in a French institution, the very different positions taken by artists in the face of scientific advances and the controversies they provoked. Dealing with a subject that is more topical than ever, the exhibition is in keeping with the museum’s desire to reflect contemporary cultural and social concerns in its programming.
