His research has focused on genetic neurological and muscular diseases.
He is also a collector of engravings, lithographs and illustrated books (artists active in France from 1950 to 2000, German artists between 1880 and 1990) and paintings by artists who worked in Alsace from 1950 to the present day.
In this capacity, he has contributed to exhibitions since 2000 at the MAMCS, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, and more recently at the BNU in Strasbourg, to the Camille Claus exhibitions in Strasbourg and Drusenheim, and finally to the La Bibliothèque fantastique exhibition at the Musée Würth in Erstein.
The talk is devoted to the illustrated books in his collection presented in the current exhibition at the Musée Würth, where by necessity it is only possible to show a minority of the prints and texts, even though they represent direct or indirect dialogues between artists and poets.
Two major works, both from 1964, each comprising some sixty lithographs, but completely different from each other, will be evoked, one illustrating, 50 years apart, the echo of Charles Péguy's lyrical poetry in Alfred Manessier, one illustrating the echo of Charles Péguy's lyrical poetry in Alfred Manessier, a major painter of French lyrical abstraction, and the other the surprising dialogue in I cent Life between the often crude poems written in "pidgin English" by Walasse Ting and some twenty artists at the forefront of the 60s in the USA (pop art and tachism) and Europe (the CoBrA movement).
We'll also look at the baroque collaboration between Pierre Alechinsky and Michel Butor in Rêve de l'ammonite, and the humanist and committed work of American painter and illustrator Ben Shahn, little known in France.
Registration required
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Telephone: 03 88 64 74 84
Further information
Event / Sessions : On 02/16/2025
Date: 2025-02-16 - 2025-02-16
Schedule : 16:00 - 17:00
Price: gratuit
Age: Tout public
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