BELZERE Stéphane.
Floating worlds.
edition of the museums of the city of Strasbourg
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| N° d'inventaire | 25837 |
| Format | 16.5 x 30.5 |
| Détails | 144 p., richly illustrated, bound. |
| Publication | Strasbourg, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782351251973 |
In the mid-1990s, the painter Stéphane Belzère (born in 1963), nourished by French, Swiss and German cultures, decided to set up his easel in the so-called "Pièces Molles" room of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. This marked the beginning of a pictorial adventure that has lasted to this day, during which the artist would inhabit his canvas with a recurring, if not obsessive, motif: the jar. The subject of numerous variations, the jar is accumulated, prodigiously enlarged, traversed by the artist's gaze – including from inside the container – until it becomes an immense, indecipherable landscape.
Invited to present his work in a room at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the painter also draws inspiration from another practice, that of stained glass (he designed those for Rodez Cathedral), to create an installation called Les Mains des anges . This evolving and participatory work, for which Stéphane Belzère places "in a jar" the cast of a hand on a background of colored glass, is placed alongside the collections of the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg (currently closed for renovations), bringing together numerous specimens preserved in alcohol, in jars.
The exhibition catalog includes all of the approximately seventy works on display. This publication offers a deep dive into Stéphane Belzère's work with an essay by art critic Marguerite Pilven, a focus on the use of the jar in a scientific context and the painter's connection to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, as well as a lengthy interview with the artist.
Invited to present his work in a room at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the painter also draws inspiration from another practice, that of stained glass (he designed those for Rodez Cathedral), to create an installation called Les Mains des anges . This evolving and participatory work, for which Stéphane Belzère places "in a jar" the cast of a hand on a background of colored glass, is placed alongside the collections of the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg (currently closed for renovations), bringing together numerous specimens preserved in alcohol, in jars.
The exhibition catalog includes all of the approximately seventy works on display. This publication offers a deep dive into Stéphane Belzère's work with an essay by art critic Marguerite Pilven, a focus on the use of the jar in a scientific context and the painter's connection to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, as well as a lengthy interview with the artist.
Invited to present his work in a room at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the painter also draws inspiration from another practice, that of stained glass (he designed those for Rodez Cathedral), to create an installation called Les Mains des anges . This evolving and participatory work, for which Stéphane Belzère places "in a jar" the cast of a hand on a background of colored glass, is placed alongside the collections of the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg (currently closed for renovations), bringing together numerous specimens preserved in alcohol, in jars.
The exhibition catalog includes all of the approximately seventy works on display. This publication offers a deep dive into Stéphane Belzère's work with an essay by art critic Marguerite Pilven, a focus on the use of the jar in a scientific context and the painter's connection to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, as well as a lengthy interview with the artist.