From May 18 to July 23, 2017, the Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz in Nogent sur Marne presents a group exhibition entitled O! WATT UP, by Watteau and theater.

  • Anne Laure Sacriste, Reverse Island, 2010, panels with variable dimensions - © Courtesy of the artist
In 1721 died, in Nogent sur Marne, the painter Antoine Watteau. Using his supposed death on the property as a pretext, the art center, whose park has been classified on the basis of this legend, makes him the tutelary figure of its summer exhibition, by summoning contemporary artists, painters or no: Anne Brégeaut, Alex Cecchetti, Patrick Corillon, Kris Knight, Maude Maris, Ad Minoliti, Anne Laure Sacriste, and Emmanuelle Villard.

Through this medium, disregarding the Fêtes & Galantes - the establishment of the Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz may be sufficient to echo it - the invited artists approach, directly or indirectly, and as Watteau did some three centuries earlier, the theatron, “the place where we see”, this place where dual issues are exercised: representation of a reality, he is the simulacrum of it that he (re) plays, ape and puts at a distance. At the same time, it serves as a magnifying glass on this reality. When the theater is already a representation, the “watteauesque” exhibition suggests the representation of the representation and questions the recurrence of the theater as a subject, as a characteristic, as a form of current plastic creation. If the theater is indeed this place intended for a collective reception, transmission, education and entertainment… one must not for all that omit its subversive quality, because it is the space of the disguise and the reversal of values. Eminently dangerous therefore.

An original drawing by Watteau, kindly lent by a collector, will recall in the introduction to the exhibition the astonishing and incredible history of the classification of this domain of Nogent sur Marne at the beginning of the 1944th century, offered by the Smith Champion sisters in XNUMX to the State, today administered by the FNAGP.

The National Foundation of Graphic and Plastic Arts (FNAGP) opened in 2006 in Nogent sur Marne the Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz (MABA), an art center intended to promote and disseminate contemporary creation and to encourage the emergence of projects. experimental.

The Foundation organizes four exhibitions there per year mainly around photography and graphics in their most innovative modes of expression, but also by welcoming other plastic proposals that question history or memory, territory and environment. , or even cinematographic representation.

The Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, member of the Tram Île de France network, has an active public policy and organizes numerous events around the exhibitions it organizes.

Schedules and rates

Start date : 18th May 2017   End date : July 23, 2017

  • Programming: Every day (except Tuesday, holidays) 13 p.m. - 18 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 12 p.m. - 18 p.m.
  • Fees : free entry.

Bernard Anthonioz Art House

  • Address: 16 rue Charles VII
    94130Nogent-sur-Marne
  • Subway: Castle of Vincennes (1)
  • Website: maba.fnagp.fr