• 11/08/2022
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The Mah de Genève mixes categories - freedom<

The Mah de Genève inaugurates its new big exhibition on Thursday entitled "No need for a drawing".The historian of French art Jean-Hubert Martin has released hundreds of objects from the reserves to compose around twenty chapters.

Jean-Hubert Martin surveyed the reserves of the Museum of Art and History (MAH) for more than two years in search of forgotten masterpieces and atypical objects.He came out some 550 works and objects to form 22 narrative sequences, each based on a series of analogies on the background or the form.

The first exhibition "Carte Blanche" was carried out in 2021, by the Austrian artist Jakob Lena Knebl who juxtaposed works of art and objects with usage value to question their status.In his hanging, Jean-Hubert Martin "mixes the categories, the works are shown equally," said the director of Mah Marc-Ohler on Wednesday in the media on Wednesday in the media on Wednesday in the media.

"Encourage emotions"

First room, first chapter: "From the cross to the globe" starts from the cross, which structures Western thought from Christianity, to go towards representations of the globe and heavens.The gaze goes from religious paintings, to a Kanaga mask of the Dogon people and, on the ground, to a work of Richard Long composed of granite plates, "allegory of the fragmented world of today", explains Jean-Hubert Martin.

The art historian wants to "put the cursor on the side of sensitivity, to arouse emotions in the visitor before instilling him knowledge."To keep the public on the alert, he also puts on the game, sometimes childish, as in the next room, where the figures represented in works and objects, like a theater of Guignol, allow to count from twelve to twelve.

Purely formal

The following sequences pass "from love to hatred", "from the bacchanal to the bistro", "from the hair to the beard" or even "from the decapitation scam".At the entrance to several rooms, the commissioner placed a work by Swiss artist Markus Raetz, who died in 2020.His sculpture "Metamorphosis I", which shows a man's silhouette wearing a hat or a seated hare, is visible in "from the ambigu to the enigma".

On the first floor of the museum, two clashes are placed on a purely formal level."Morphology" brings together, one after the other, around 50 containers - amphora, urns, vases, junctions, the teates, cuts, bowl - by size, from the largest to the smallest.The exhibition ends with "chromatism", an assembly of costumes, paintings and various objects organized according to their shade, from white to green.

The Mah offers a whole program of visits and workshops as part of this exhibition.He also launches a free -entry pilot project, which allows the public can determine the amount it is ready to pay to visit the exhibitions.

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