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Exhibition

Cosmos. From romanticism to the avant-garde, 1801-2001

The exhibition Cosmos. From Romanticism to the Avant-garde, 1801-2001 analyses the cosmic element, looking at its representation in art, with exponents of the landscape romanticism which turned untouched nature into a promised land, and of the utopianism of the avant-garde movements, with the dialogue between the arts and scientific research in the field.

The exhibition is divided up into three sections - Nature and Cosmos, The Imaginary of Cosmologies and Towards Infinity - which present this itinerary principally on the basis of original works of art (Doré, Miró, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Kiefer, Calder, Klein, etc.), though it also has recourse to scientific documentation (planispheres, daguerreotypes, NASA photographs), literary material (real and fictitious expedition logbooks) and samples of the decorative arts. A total of over 250 works provides a platform for reflection on the Cosmos and its scope: the disquieting nature of infinity.

Curators: Jean Clair

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