Curators: Marie Baloup and Rémi Enguehard
With artworks by:
Babi Badalov, Monster Chetwynd, Mathis Collins, Maria Corvocane, Christine Deknuydt, Fred Deux, Bertrand Dezoteux, Mimosa Echard, Christian Lhopital, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Manuel Ocampo, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Florence Paradeis and Jean-Charles de Quillacq, from Frac Île-de-France collection.
Workshop with Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves
Our medieval fantasies are based in part on our appreciation of the work of painters such as Hieronymus Bosch, whose various diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs depict a strange world populated by hybrid and apocalyptic figures. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Bosch’s work breaks down genres and species in a grotesque, teeming universe that seems to have emerged from a more primitive medieval world, blurring conventional historical periodisation.
Contemporary art has taken up this wealth of stories and these creative hybrids, evading the categories constructed by art historians. The exhibition takes up many motifs from the medieval world, immersing us in a polyphony of works that are both narrative supports and very real objects to live with, reflecting the many stories and everyday uses of medieval retables with their multiple and sometimes strange panels.
The Frac invites students to extend their discovery of the works by creating mediation narratives so that visitors can appropriate the fictional power of the works and their associations. Two other classes take part in workshops on the medieval practice of an artist from the Berserk & Pyrrhia programme. In these works, multiple techniques beyond the medieval prism are explored to inspire fantasy worlds, question the duality between order and disorder, analyse the circulation of figures and codes, and reinvent chimeras and new alchemies. More generally, this exhibition offers an artistic and fictional response to the history and literature programs and proposes an opening to the issues of historiography.
Lycée Isaac Newton
1 place Jules Verne
92110 Clichy