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 moreMatthias Odin’s sculptures come to life through his everyday experiences. Each encounter retains a material or immaterial memory that feeds into his composite installations, which become witnesses to his great mobility.
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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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Using 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 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 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.
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 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.
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