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 moreThe 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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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 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.
Read moreThe exhibition window of Les Aulnes secondary school in Combs-la-Ville will be transformed into the set of a fantasy film inspired by heroic fantasy and the Middle Ages for the duration of an exhibition produced following a workshop with year 8 students.
Read moreThe Léopold Bellan Home for the Elderly in Romainville is hosting a group of works from the Frac Île-de-France collection that evoke the world of plants and forests, inviting us to take a closer look at the symbolism inherited from the medieval world following the Berserk & Pyrrhia exhibition.
Read moreThe exhibition at the Château du Val Fleury is an invitation to explore the spiritual, almost magical dimension of certain places. Martine Boileau’s sculpture, a trio of large, enigmatic figures, welcomes visitors to the chateau. These sculptures resonate with Berserk & Pyrrhia, conjuring up an ancient, fantastical memory that extends that of past architecture in the same way that medieval ruins inspire an imagination inhabited by ghosts and fantastic tales.
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