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15.11.2021
THE MO.CO. HÔTEL DES COLLECTIONS EXHIBITS WORKS FROM THE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO COLLECTION UNTIL FEB. 13TH, 2022
The MO.CO. Hotel des collections in Montpellier presents "Bodies at stake", an exhibition of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, from 13 November 2021 to 13 February 2022.
In a city of knowledge and medicine, the new exhibition of MO.CO. Hôtel des collections explores the poetics of human figures. 28 artists seize it and demonstrate that the image of the body is also that of the psyche.
The body is political, social, sexual, fantasised, celebrated, subjugated. It is the reflection of our fears, our aspirations, our times; a period during which bodies are celebrated, put to test, and questioned; where technological advancements
allow for the fabrication of exoskeletons and artificial corporealities, where the shapeshifting of the body is a possibility time and time again, yet it remains as a marker of differences.
The representation of the body spans the history of art. How can artists of today, in the wake of Michelangelo Rubens, Courbet, Alberto Giacometti, or Francis Bacon, to mention only a few of those who worked around the flesh, take appropriation of the notion of body? How can one figure humans nowadays?
At MO.CO. Hôtel des collections, some fifty works created between 1977 and 2020 attempt to seize the body. It is not a matter of showing autopsied bodies, but rather to perform a thorough analysis of the human figure as represented by artists, of the body as a means of expression, experience, as well as formal and aesthetic research, inextricably linked to social, political, and cultural evolutions.
Most of these works are presented in France for the first time. The exhibition includes videos (Lina Bertucci, Elena Kovylina, Wael Shawky) and video installations (Ed Atkins, GORDON_ PARRENO), paintings (Sanya Kantarovsky, Enrico David, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye), sculptures (Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas, Michele Rizzo, Josh Kline, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Michael Dean), and photographs (Zoe Leonard, Cindy Sherman, Trisha Donnelly, Catherine Opie) in order to present a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary bodies and a variety of perspectives.
" Bodies at stake "
13 November 2021 to 13 february 2022
MO.CO. Hôtel des collections
Montpellier
