Author Archives: frac
This 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.
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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.
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The 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.
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The 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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The 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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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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