The exhibition brings together works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and from artists whose fantastic worlds are a direct legacy of the medieval taste for hybrid and marvellous figures that populate our imaginations, tinged with heroic fantasy, a frequent gateway to an often fantasised Middle Ages.
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This exhibition is rooted in medieval narratives, marked by the development of the cult of saints and the consolidation of a written tradition.
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Presentation of Salomé, by Nancy Wilson Pajic (Frac Île-de-France collection), echoing the Luciforme exhibition by Mercedes Cosano. The work accompanies a body of material and photographic evidence, which tends to confirm the presence of fairies at Orsay, medievalist creatures par excellence.
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The artist’s practice is rooted in questions of identity, borders and cultural belonging, which evolve and take on new meaning in the different countries through which they pass. Her exhibition in the Project Room as part of Drawing Now and Printemps du Dessin focuses on her drawing practice, which takes shape in a variety of ways.
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Artworks by contemporary artists irrigate the Île-de-France region, bringing its rich medieval heritage into direct contact with a wide public.
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The medieval heroic fantasy imagery of pop culture inhabits the worlds of today’s artists, and the offbeat perspective of the humans that exist there opens up a different approach to the future. The Berserk & Pyrrhia exhibition, at Le Plateau and Les Réserves from 21st March to 20th July, highlights the proliferation of medieval images and their subsequent appropriation, bringing together medieval art and contemporary art.
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The medieval heroic fantasy imagery of pop culture inhabits the worlds of today’s artists, and the de-centered view of the human that reigns there opens up a different approach to the future. The “Berserk & Pyrrhia” exhibition highlights the circulation of medieval images and their subsequent appropriation, and brings together medieval and contemporary art.
Read moreWei Libo work on a series of sculptures celebrating the memory of his origins. He first drew inspiration from the furniture of his childhood, making replicas using traditional skills.
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The FoRTE#6 promotion is characterised by its interdisciplinarity and the way in which the artists tackle the contemporary issues affecting our society.
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Thomas Buswell’s work, which he describes as ‘something to live with’, suggests tensions between the state of nature and modern comfort, attraction and repulsion.
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