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The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery at Holy Cross College in Worcester (Mass.), United States, presents paintings by French artist Gabrielle Thierry in the exhibition "Gabrielle Thierry: The Musicality of the Water Lilies/La Musicalité des Nymphéas" - August/September 2027

"As a painter, I have been conducting research for several years on the interpretation of landscape in search of its musicality. I distinguish not only the landscape as I see it but also its rhythms and music that I transform into colored scores. The work presented here is the representation of the musicality of Claude Monet's Water Lilies. Each of the 8 panels exhibited at the Musée de l'Orangerie is studied to transcribe its own music, translated into a musical and pictorial space on canvas."

Gabrielle Thierry creates her abstract canvases by crossing the emotions that painting and music give her, linked to Synesthesia.

Roger Hankins, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, collaborated with Brit Smith, director of the Holy Cross study abroad program, and Maurice Géracht, Stephen J. Prior Professor of Humanities, to organize this exhibition. Géracht and Smith are the coordinators of the International Conference "Words and Images," organized with the University of Paris-Diderot and the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Géracht and Smith are the co-editors of "Interfaces," a recognized and award-winning journal dedicated to publications from these annual conferences. (Interfaces en Open Edition,, link to issue 36, with Gabrielle Thierry's publication on "The synesthetic experience of Maurice Ravel's Waltz")

Events as part of the exhibition

• "Synesthesia: A celebration of Painting & Music", Cantor Art Gallery
• Brooks Concert Hall: Musical Performance, "Last Reflection of Ophelia September 9, 8pm
• Worcester Art Museum - WAM, September 10. Workshop with students to transcribe the musicality of Claude Monet's Water Lilies from the museum's collection
• Opening Reception, Cantor Art Gallery, September 12
• MFA Boston, Discovery of Claude Monet's Water Lilies from the MFA collection
• Lecture J.M.W. Turner, Landscape and History, Prof. Frederic Ogée, Univ. Paris Diderot Dinand Library,September 21
• Lecture When the Senses Meet: Synesthesia and Artistic Imagining, Prof. Mark Freeman, College of the Holy Cross Dinand Library, September 27
• Music in the Gallery Series, Cantor Art Gallery Jan Muller-Szeraws and Holy Cross musicians - Concerts every Friday at 12:30 featuring Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, etc. and the music of the Water Lilies, colored scores exhibited all around the musicians and the audience.

The Gallery
Founded in 1983 by Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, the Cantor Art Gallery is both a venue for contemporary public exhibitions and a vital resource for Holy Cross professors and students, connecting exhibitions to the art curriculum. It is now located in the prestigious Prior Performing Arts Center. The Cantor Art Gallery was inaugurated with the exhibition "Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917," October 1983, presenting 31 bronzes by the artist. Five of these sculptures were donated by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation  and are now part of the permanent collection.

ite web de la Galerie.

• Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
• Press releases
• In the press, full article on the exhibition and its organization  ( PDF  in English)
• Holy Cross College