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Leon Ferrari. Artist, draughtsman, illustrator, sculptor
展览 20 四月 − 29 八月 2022
Georges Pompidou National Center for Arts and Culture presents exhibition "Leon Ferrari. Artist, Draughtsman, Illustrator, Sculptor".
Visitors will see the first museum exhibition of Léon Ferrari's work in France.
Leon Ferrari (1920-2013) was the author of multifaceted, sometimes enigmatic, sometimes as literal as possible. He held Christianity responsible for the contemporary phenomena of torture and exile, his anticolonial discourse going hand in hand with a fierce anticlericalism. Rejecting all purely formal approaches to his work, Ferrari never ceased to warn us about the process by which art embellishes and denigrates violence, a mechanism he called "amiable cruelty.
Prepared according to the materials of the website the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou.
Visitors will see the first museum exhibition of Léon Ferrari's work in France.
Leon Ferrari (1920-2013) was the author of multifaceted, sometimes enigmatic, sometimes as literal as possible. He held Christianity responsible for the contemporary phenomena of torture and exile, his anticolonial discourse going hand in hand with a fierce anticlericalism. Rejecting all purely formal approaches to his work, Ferrari never ceased to warn us about the process by which art embellishes and denigrates violence, a mechanism he called "amiable cruelty.
Prepared according to the materials of the website the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou.
