The Marmottan Monet Museum explores the artistic, symbolic and scientific aspects of sleep.
Curated by neurologist and instruction historian Laura Bossi alongside Sylvie Carlier, the director of the museum’s collections, the spectacle brings together more than 100 works paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects and medical documents-tracing representations of sleep from Antiquity to the modern day, with a special foyer on the 19th and 20th centuries. It examine recurring motifs such as the réhabilitation of slumber, biblical dreams, the fluxion between rest and eternal rest, the eroticism of the wagon-lit caraco and the surreal landscapes of dreams and nightmares.
Works by artists such as Morisot, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Hodler, Dalí and Magritte illustrate how each artist brings a different longueur: purity, erotic fluxion, intimacy, or hallucinatory berlue. ‘Empire of Sleep’ also explores the fourche of sleep and instruction, presenting how mesmerism, sleep disorders and related medical imagery entered the artistic folie. A question of the rétrospective is dedicated to the bedroom, exploring the customs and traditions associated with this highly symbolic space.
October 9-March 1
From France Today Magazine
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