Curator: Rémi Enguehard
Salon du livre – Médiathèque Luxembourg Meaux:
The first part of the exhibition features a prologue at the Médiathèque Luxembourg during the Salon du livre de Meaux (with works by Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Philippe Mohlitz and Gérard Trignac). It introduces the theme of medievalism and the book, the embodiment of the transmission and reinvention of these stories right up to the manga of today. The exhibition then moves on to the Bossuet Museum, and in particular the Bishops’ Chapel, where contemporary art blends into the architecture and collections of ancient paintings.
Exhibition at Bossuet Museum:
This exhibition is rooted in medieval narratives, marked by the development of the cult of the saints and the consolidation of a written tradition. It offers contemporary echoes that extend the spiritual aspirations emerging at that time. They complete the alphabet of holy figures enabling intercession, that is to say, connection with the divine. The dialogue between the works questions the persistence of iconographic traditions. Some sketch out a form of medievalism that interprets an era and its rituals from century to century, with varying degrees of fantasy. Others break with this tradition, affirming a new artistic tradition.
The medieval period turned Christianity into a veritable picture book. It developed a host of saints, calendars, stories and images. These are embodied in Jacques de Voragine’s La Légende dorée and Saint Jerome’s writing of the Vulgate, the founding texts that inform the works on display. This exhibition explores the sources of the great Christian myths. The exhibition explores the sources of the great Christian myths, proposing new interpretations and highlighting the tensions between the ephemeral and the eternal dimensions of the artistic aspirations of their authors.
With works by:
Carlotta Bailly-Borg*, Béatrice Balcou*, Hubert de Chalvron*, Malo Chapuy, Guillaume Dégé*, Alfred Deux*, Patrice Giorda*, Bogdan Konopka*, Théo Mercier*, Giorgio van Meerwijk, Philippe Mohlitz*, Gérard Trignac*, Xolo Cuintle and the collections of the Bossuet museum.
* Works from the Frac Île-de-France collection
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Médiathèque Luxembourg – salon du livre de Meaux
2 Rue Cornillon
77100 Meaux
Open 22 and 23.03.25, 10am-6pm
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Musée Bossuet – cité épiscopale de Meaux
5 place Charles de Gaulle
77100 Meaux
Open mer. – dim. : 10am-12:30pm and 2-6pm