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From November 4, 2000
to February 25, 2001
Ornaments from there, ornaments from here: incidences, coincidences?
The gathering together of diverse and faraway worlds to which this exhibition invites us resulted from a meeting: that between a creator of contemporary jewellery, Carole Guinard, who via her innovative gallery, was also its first ambassador in French-speaking Switzerland, and a traveller, Marie Alamir, who cannot bring herself to choose between ethnography and art history, and who has been fascinated for a long time by the finery of traditional non-Western societies.
In the course of exchanges and mutual observations regarding these objects we became aware of multiple disquieting correspondences, the more obvious of which were of a formal or material order. These led us to ask ourselves about the nature of such affinities, discovering, beyond appearances, the divergences or displacements of revelatory meanings which distinguish these two groups.
From June 9, 2000
to October 8, 2000
Air en forme
An exhibition on the theme of inflatables.
Light, soft, floating, sensual, and sometimes invasive inflatable structures need air to deploy their forms. The air we all share literally takes shape through the envelope that defines its expansion. The invisible becomes physical and palpable. A membrane defines the interior of the exterior: it allows games between fullness and emptiness, between content and container.
Objects, industrial design, furniture, architecture, decoration, fashion, toys and works of artists revolve around the following themes: invention / protection, rescue / imitation, deception, decoy / invasion, hypertrophy / game / seduction, fantasy, eroticism / dreams / accessories.
Jacques-Édouard Berger
Until Spring 2009, the visit of the collection Jacques-Edouard Berger gives an opportunity to discover two exhibitions on the theme of the animal.
"The Animal World in Ancient Egypt" demonstrates the pervasiveness of the animal in Egyptian art through a selection of nearly a hundred objects of the pre-dynastic period preceding the Greco-Roman period.
Echoing this exhibition, "The Animal World in Ancient Egypt" evokes the role of fauna in the everyday life and symbolism of China and Japan.
The majority of these representations of domestic, wild or imaginary animals are funerary statuettes from tombs of the Han and the Tang dynasties.
To download flyers explaining these two exhibitions as well as the kit is devoted to them, please see PRESS.
