As part of its agreement with the department of Maine-et-Loire, the Frac des Pays de la Loire continues its mission of disseminating contemporary creation in the region.
Galerie d’art municipale
10, place de la République
49420 Ombrée d'Anjou - Pouancé
FRANCE
exhibition initially scheduled from April 4 to May 17, 2020 (exhibition interrupted on March 17, 2020 due to covid-19 measures)
Present for the first time in the municipality of Ombrée d´Anjou, at the Atelier Legault, the Frac offered the project partners, the municipality and the department, several files from artists residing in the region. The choice fell unanimously on JEZY KNEZ, a duo of artists who have been developing four-handed work since 2012.
The installation produced specifically by the artists for the Atelier Legault resonates with the volume of the place: its height, its development in length and its overhead light. The landscape that unfolds there invites the visitor to survey the space, to enter the heart of a changing area with entropic development. Here, we travel through a hybrid geology through an untamed environment. This immersive scenography has its roots in the romantic pictorial universe of the 1830s in the United States and its grandiose imaginary views: “he project was born from the discovery of a series of paintings by the American painter, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), The Course of Empire, which illustrates with five paintings taking as a backdrop the same mountain landscape, the cyclical destiny of an unspecified civilization whose apogee recalls that of ancient Rome.