A Moment of Love. Loves VI
The question of love is the essential question of humanity. And perhaps of animality, but we will never know. It is said that courtly love was invented by poets in the 12th century, troubadours who came to flirt under the windows of beautiful women while their knight husbands went off to war, mironton, mironton, mirontaine. Nevertheless, we can imagine that love has existed since the dawn of time, that men have died for love, even if they weren't all Montagues.
When you're young, you're loved by your parents, at least ideally. But that doesn't add much; every teenager takes it for granted. No, the great interest in life is the love of a stranger, being loved, and talent, wealth, or success matter little, because without love, you're nothing at all, as Edith Piaf sang. This exhibition on love, the sixth of its name, is undoubtedly the most conceptual. Love is written, love is sung, love is found, love is lost, but it is rarely depicted.
Drawing love, photographing love is a real challenge.
Some artists gravitate toward eroticism, but this is a delusion; pleasure is not love.
The work that depicts love must be filled with love, a feeling that reflects the loving and joyful soul. It is not a portrait whose likeness matters, but an emotion captured by light. It is not so much the visitor who looks at the work, as the work that looks at you with kindness. This is, for example, what emerges from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; these are works that contemplate you, observe you, and offer you a moment of love.
The artists of this Amours VI exhibition also offer you a few glimpses of springtime romance. Laurent Quénéhen
With :
Pauline Andreu, Delphine Arnould, Adriana Lubna Balazova, Mariana Bankova, Anthony Barlouis, Tamina Beausoleil, Etienne Boissise, Lila Boudjema, Nathalie Broyelle, Margot Bürki, Côme Cathalaa, Alice Cauchois, Gokce Celikel, Manuela Centrone, Claire Chalet, Benoit Chapon, Juliette Choné, Anne Cindric, Florent Contin-Roux, Fabienne Dard, Marielle Degioanni, Michel Devoisin Lagarde, Laure Djourado, Laetitia Dom, Maria Ducasse, Isabel Duperray, Lluís Estopiñan, Ewa Held, Céline Foussadier, Marine Gambardella, Jérôme Garrido, Perrine Gaspard, Maria la gout, Aleksandra Gregorczyk, Florence Guillemot, Larisa Hancu, Ajili Houda, Berengaria Humarau, Ekaterina Igorevna, Michaël Jourdet, Corinne Jullien, Naryeong Kim, Yuen Ling Laurence, Maud Louvrier Clerc, Florence Lucas, Brigitte Masquelier, Akona Matyila, Anne Frédérique Maurer, Veronica Mecchia, Marine Médal, Hélène Milakis, Julie Milou, Kim Nezzar, Tami Notsani, Nassera Ouhrani, Konstantine Patsios, Guillaume Piot, Christine Pique, Evelyne Portmann, Marianne Pradier, Vincent Puren, Jérôme Rappanello, Jeanne Rimbert, Stella Rinke, Emanuel Rivière, Valérie Rossignol, Nathalie Salé, Clotilde Salmon, Delphine Sandoz, Esther Ségal, Marie Senatore Mouysset, Carolina Sepúlveda, Dana Sereda, Alberto Sorbelli, SylC, Yves Tenret, Thibaud Thiercelin, Albertine Trichon, Armelle Trouche, Julia Tsapurak, Rémi Uchéda, Isabelle Vernier, Stéphanie Vialles, Jing Wang, Catherine Wolff, Sophie Yin.
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