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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 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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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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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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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 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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This exhibition offers an artistic and fictional echo of the history and literature syllabuses, providing an opening onto the challenges of historiography.
The Frac invites pupils to extend their discovery of the works by creating mediation stories. Two other classes are taking part in workshops on the medievalist practice of an artist from the Berserk & Pyrrhia programme.
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Echoing 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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Starting with the characters that populate medieval novels, the exhibition, co-curated with a group of students from the Jacques Higelin Conservatoire in Pantin, invites visitors to discover contemporary reinterpretations of these figures, who are a constant source of inspiration and fantasy.
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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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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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