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 moreGarance Früh’s sculpture and installation work maintains a fragile and tenuous link with questions of protecting, defending and caring for the body, using pre-existing materials that most often constrain, protect or clothe the female body.
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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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This exhibition is rooted in medieval narratives, marked by the development of the cult of saints and the consolidation of a written tradition.
Read moreThe Centre culturel Jean Cocteau and the Lycée Polyvalent Paul Robert des Lilas have teamed up on a collective exhibition curated by the students of two classes of seconde and curator and mediator Thomas Maestro.
Read moreArtist Héloïse Farago’s works of contemporary fin’amor nestle at the heart of the ARCHEA museum’s permanent tour, echoing the thousand years of medieval history of the Roissy area.
Read moreThe 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 moreThis trail offers an encounter with different forms of contemporary art, based on the theme of water and echoing the medieval and monastic history of the Domaine régional de Villarceaux.
Read moreUsing works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and those of young contemporary artists, the exhibition invites visitors to re-furnish the rooms, drawing on the mobile and movable past of a castle with many lives. Chests, chairs, consoles and other objects reinterpret medieval forms, bringing to life the imaginations and fantasies associated with the period.
Read moreEchoing the Frac’s exhibition on the Middle Ages reinvented, Michel Charpentier’s two life-size figures, ‘Vierge d’Ile-de-France sud’ and ‘Vierge d’Ile-de-France nord’, are on display in part of poet Jean Cocteau’s garden, opposite the house in Milly-la-forêt.
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