Cabaret of Nothingness
With reference to the famous themed cabaret, founded in Montmartre at the end of the 19th century, that deployed its parodic and funereal ambiance by making light of morbid situations with inflammatory irony, the Frac 脦le-de-France and the Communaut茅 d鈥檃gglom茅ration Marne et Gondoire present at the Ch芒teau de Rentilly Le Cabaret du N茅ant, an exhibition created by students following the exhibition oriented professions course at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and which combines contemporary artists with masterpieces from Beaux-Arts de Paris collection. The subject 鈥榬emember you will die鈥 traverses art and literature encompassing tragedy and parody according to changes in society and customs, religious convictions as well as scientific discoveries.
Since the famous 15th century danse macabre or dance of death, the subject has continued to engage audiences and creators despite undergoing profound changes. Contemporary with the famous cabaret du n茅ant established in 1892 in boulevard de Clichy (Paris 18th) and which lends its name to the exhibition, the concept of nothingness has an alternative interpretation, another vision of the same chasm, no less dreadful but aesthetically the opposite, that which, in the wake of Mallarm茅, led to considering human life as 鈥榩ointless forms of matter (..) launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that dream has no existence (..) and proclaiming in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!鈥 The role of the poet and therefore art would thus entail, according to Mallarm茅, to pull, like from the bottom of a shipwreck, man from this 鈥榁oid鈥 through the ultimate interplay of creation.
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With reference to the famous themed cabaret, founded in Montmartre at the end of the 19th century, that deployed its parodic and funereal ambiance by making light of morbid situations with inflammatory irony, the Frac 脦le-de-France and the Communaut茅 d鈥檃gglom茅ration Marne et Gondoire present at the Ch芒teau de Rentilly Le Cabaret du N茅ant, an exhibition created by students following the exhibition oriented professions course at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and which combines contemporary artists with masterpieces from Beaux-Arts de Paris collection. The subject 鈥榬emember you will die鈥 traverses art and literature encompassing tragedy and parody according to changes in society and customs, religious convictions as well as scientific discoveries.
Since the famous 15th century danse macabre or dance of death, the subject has continued to engage audiences and creators despite undergoing profound changes. Contemporary with the famous cabaret du n茅ant established in 1892 in boulevard de Clichy (Paris 18th) and which lends its name to the exhibition, the concept of nothingness has an alternative interpretation, another vision of the same chasm, no less dreadful but aesthetically the opposite, that which, in the wake of Mallarm茅, led to considering human life as 鈥榩ointless forms of matter (..) launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that dream has no existence (..) and proclaiming in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!鈥 The role of the poet and therefore art would thus entail, according to Mallarm茅, to pull, like from the bottom of a shipwreck, man from this 鈥榁oid鈥 through the ultimate interplay of creation.
Artists on show
- Alain Séchas
- Albrecht Dürer
- Alicia Paz
- Ann Veronica Janssens
- Antoine Marquis
- Benoit Pype
- Bernhard Martin
- Bettina Samson
- Christian Boltanski
- Christian Lhopital
- Claire Isorni
- Damien Moulierac
- Evgen Bavcar
- Flora Bouteille
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Graham Gussin
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Hicham Berrada
- Hugues Reip
- Ismail Bahri
- Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty
- Jean Baptiste Désoria
- Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
- Jean-Michel Albèrola
- Louis Pierre Deseine
- Lucien Hervé
- Marc Lochner
- Marcel Duchamp
- Matthias Garcia
- Nina Galdino
- Pierre Huyghe
- Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty
- Romain Moncet
- Tereza Zelenkova
- Valentin Ranger
- Valérie Sonnier
- Victor Yudaev
- Xavier Boussiron
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