Deserts - Cécile Reims

In December 2003, Cécile Reims donated a set of 108 copper engravings to the Chalcographie department of the Musée du Louvre. This donation is a unique addition to the collections of an institution whose origins date back to the very creation of the museum. This coherent ensemble, selected by the artist, offers a remarkable panorama of Cécile Reims' engraved work, focusing on personal, often unpublished works, and raising, in their complementarity, a very profound question about the meaning of interpretive engraving. Cécile Reims' own words on this donation should be quoted to underline its unity: "What I have done, however disparate, has been done with rigor, in a continuous process, and perhaps it only makes sense once it's all together, as a whole, that is, as a path - and not as little stones thrown here and there. That's how the idea of the donation came to me".