Works from the Collection de l'Art Brut at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The Collection de l'Art Brut is lending several pieces by Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Johann Hauser, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern and Aloïse to the Musée d'Orsay for their Sade. Attaquer le soleil (Sade - Attacking the Sun) show from 14 October 2014 thru 25 January 2015.

Alphonse Donatien de Sade (1740-1814) left his unmistakable mark on both literature and the arts, at first surreptitiously and, later, becoming an actual legend. The oeuvre of the "Divine Marquis" radically implicates the questions of limits, proportions, and excesses, challenging our ideas of beauty, ugliness, and the sublime, and reassessing our body image. As such, he thoroughly sweeps away all our religious, ideological, moral and social preconceptions.

A specialist in Sade and guest curator for this show, Ms. Annie Le Brun invites viewers to consider the revolution in representation operated by Sade's texts. The exhibition thus highlights the themes of desire's ferocity and singularity, of distancing and extremes, of the peculiar and the monstrous, of desire as a principle of excess and as the imaginary recomposing of the world through the works of Goya, Géricault, Ingres, Rops, Rodin, Picasso...

 

Publish Date: 14.10.2014