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The image of the legendary berserker warrior has inspired a multitude of offshoots in films, video games, manga and rap music. In many myths, the berserker is intricately linked to the earth, to animality, forging ahead without armour. In Kentar艒 Miura鈥檚 work, Guts becomes a berserker through his armour. The powerful drawings that bring the story of this manga to life are brimming with European medieval references, both direct and inspired by 19th-century medievalist masterpieces, with their dark, shadowy tones.

Pyrrhia is a butterfly that has given its name to an imaginary island, described in the series of books Wings of Fire (Tui T. Sutherland), where dragons with reason reign, devoid of humans, but where small beings walking on two legs with a tuft of hair on their heads, known as scavengers, can be found.

More specifically, this Pyrrhia umbra butterfly is also known as 鈥楾he Chrysograph,鈥� the name of the writers who created the illuminations in the grimoires

This medieval heroic fantasy imagery of pop culture inhabits the worlds of today鈥檚 artists. The off-kilter vision of the humans that rule provides them with a different approach to the future. In the contemporary works on show at Le Plateau and Les R茅serves, a return to the land, magical parables or straw huts, enchanted or evil humanised animals and insects, appear in turn as fantasies or fears in a world drowning in uncertainty. Not to be outdone, the apocalypse, a recurring motif in medieval art, and its monstrous or dreamlike bestiary are also represented. Love, friendship and social interaction are imbued with these ancient models, which have been transformed by the contemporary gaze. The joy of recycling and the DIY approach are also evident in the use of less polluting and more sustainable materials.

The Berserk & Pyrrhia* exhibition illustrates the influence of medieval images and their subsequent appropriation, as well as forging links between medieval art and contemporary art. Medieval works will be on display at Le Plateau and Les R茅serves, thanks to loans from the region鈥檚 rich heritage collections**, while works by contemporary artists will, in turn, engage with medieval heritage by appearing in the region鈥檚 historic monuments, continuing this intergenerational and transhistorical dialogue.