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From elsewhere. Traveling materials and objects.
MALGOUYRES Philippe, MARTINEZ Jean-Luc.

From elsewhere. Traveling materials and objects.

Threshold / Louvre editions
€32,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25009
Format 21 x 27
Détails 192 p., paperback.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782021456264
For its sixth season, the Petite Galerie aims to evoke, through materials and works of art, the exchanges between distant worlds, exchanges that long predate the emergence of a world globalized by the great explorations of the Renaissance. Since ancient times, colored stones, ebony, shells, and ivory have circulated over long distances: far from their place of origin, they become rare, precious, and imbued with meaning. Exotic animals also travel between continents, often at the whim of politics: crowds and artists alike discover elephants, rhinoceroses, and giraffes with amazement and admiration. Human-made objects are enriched and transformed along these same routes. Through their unique stories—their form, their material, their place of origin, their use, their movement—we sketch a more complex history, one that goes beyond Europeans' infatuation with the exotic. A story of exchanges where imagination reigns first.
For its sixth season, the Petite Galerie aims to evoke, through materials and works of art, the exchanges between distant worlds, exchanges that long predate the emergence of a world globalized by the great explorations of the Renaissance. Since ancient times, colored stones, ebony, shells, and ivory have circulated over long distances: far from their place of origin, they become rare, precious, and imbued with meaning. Exotic animals also travel between continents, often at the whim of politics: crowds and artists alike discover elephants, rhinoceroses, and giraffes with amazement and admiration. Human-made objects are enriched and transformed along these same routes. Through their unique stories—their form, their material, their place of origin, their use, their movement—we sketch a more complex history, one that goes beyond Europeans' infatuation with the exotic. A story of exchanges where imagination reigns first.