Pour plus d'informations sur You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. Nous utilisons Mailchimp comme plateforme de marketing. There were ways of holding and communicating knowledge that did not require words; ways that had to do with the body and movement, like the form of a dance or a facial expression, or produced through drawing and images such as cave paintings. There is a language of the imagination and a life of the mind that predates logical reasoning and the urge to categorise.
They are modes of thought deeply embedded in human culture and psychology. Encountering the works of Caroline Achaintre is like taking a field trip to this different life of the mind. Her creations are full of idiosyncratic personalities and psychological resonances. They are at the same time majestic and absurd, transgressive and homely.
Like artefacts of a lost civilisation or creatures that have wandered from the pages of an otherworldly bestiary, they challenge and play with our perceptions and emotions. They return our gaze, they get under our skin, they make us laugh, they hide secrets, they resist interpretation, and pose questions that do not have answers.
Who are these painters who had a moment of popular glory before falling into oblivion, these artists of undeniable success, yet relegated to the shadows of history? On the first floor of the museum, Colette Barbier and Nina Childress — associate curators for this part of the exhibition — will offer us conceptual, ironic, playful, admiring and offbeat responses from contemporary artists of different generations and origins.
Further information. On view on Arte. Le Parvis, which in 50 years has programmed over exhibitions, will be blowing out its candles with a feed-back and forward-looking exhibition entitled Future is now, inviting some 50 artists who exhibited between and to return to the site. Le Parvis is one of the first contemporary art institutions in France, and also one of the most atypical. And it has to be said that the past 5 decades have not diminished the enthusiasm of artists and audiences alike for this intriguing venue, located in a shopping mall and integrated into a national arts scene.
