City of Montrouge (Paris), Le Beffroi "Our bodies are our gardens" from 5th to 16th of September 2018

'Our bodies are our gardens, codes of a collection' is a unique exhibition that allows to  discover the heritage of modern and contemporary artwork acquired by the City of Montrouge over several decades.


Curator Audrey Teichmann explains having 'designed the image of a landscape by asserting the multiplicity of points of view that emerge from a set of disparate elements.'

 
Artwork is not displayed as in a museum neither hung on the wall, but placed for each of them on a base of electric blue color. The viewer is a walker. He can turn around the work and discover the back of the painting. There are sometimes green plants on bases. Are we actually in an exhibition or a garden? No chronology is to be found, no classification paintings / sculptures either. It is the visitor who makes his own journey, going back and forth, getting back to a more catchy work. Everyone walks in a garden with his/her own mood, his/her own desire to pass through a canvas or sit on one of the bases to get another point of view.

This is where the visitor discovers a painting by Nathalie Bibougou bought by the City of Montrouge and entitled "Rainforest".

  
 Marie-Madeleine Rey - The Hub Of Arts

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