Meeting with Maurice Fréchuret and Eric Mangion. & Book signing of Maurice Fréchuret's Images de l’exil . Thursday 16 December 2021 at 7 pm.
Meeting with Maurice Fréchuret and Eric Mangion. & Book signing of Maurice Fréchuret's Images de l’exil . Thursday 16 December 2021 at 7 pm. « Images of exile, flight, wandering and exclusion in the history of art, from classical painting to the most contemporary production. » — Published in collaboration with Laurence Bertrand Dorléac – Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po with the support of the Fondation Antoine de Galbert. published October 2021, French edition, 17 x 24 cm (paperback), 216 pages (ill.) Coming from very far away, some images have durably shaped our imagination: those of the exile, the refugee and the migrant help to structure it and are thus part of our mental heritage. Their dissemination was carried by tales and legends, by songs, prayers and nursery rhymes, but also by visual representations which, over time, defined their contours. Religions provided the narratives needed to build a powerful iconography of exile. Adam et Ève chassés du Paradis , La Fuite en Égypte , L’Exode , are just some examples that Duccio, Giotto, Masaccio or Fra Angelico… painted on the walls of churches and monasteries. In the mad acceleration that characterises modern times, a considerable iconography of flight, wandering and exclusion has emerged, caused by wars, regimes of terror or destitution. Painters and photographers, from Marc Chagall to Robert Capa, took up the subject and gave place in their works to these "written out of history", whose fates are as uncertain as they are harrowing. The videos and installations of many contemporary artists are very timely in addressing a phenomenon that continues to grow. Mona Hatoum, Francis Alÿs, Kimsooja, Adrian Paci, Mohamed Bourouissa, Barthélémy Toguo, Zineb Sedira… and many others still produce richly meaningful works in which the notions of borders and identity are treated in a way that can fluctuate between documentary and fictional and poetic narrative. « This book is not a history of immigration that would fit within a history of art (and/or the reverse), but it contributes generously and usefully to it. Facing the walls of "scoundrel laws", "hatefully alarmist policies", "ideologues of identity retrenchment", artists rise up, "more engaged than anyone in the creative flow of existence". With Didier Fassin, they help us consider "migrants and displaced people as central figures of the contemporary world". essential. » François Huglo, Sitaudis Maurice Fréchuret is an art historian and chief heritage curator, holding a doctorate in Sociology and a doctorate in Art History. He was curator at the Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Étienne from 1986 to 1993, then at the Musée Picasso in Antibes from 1993 to 2001. Director of the capcMusée d’Art contemporain in Bordeaux from 2001 to 2006, he was appointed national curator of twentieth-century museums of the Alpes-Maritimes (2006-2014). Alongside his work as curator, exhibition curator and teacher, Maurice Fréchuret has published numerous books, including: Le…
