The raw color?
This flashy and cerebral demonstration by thirty artists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes starts from Claude Lévi-Strauss and his primordial notion of the vintage in the civilization which nourished his mythical book (
Le Cru et le Cuit
, 1964, Plon).
Is believed, defines the Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi),
“which is in its raw state;
that is not worked;
which has not undergone any preparation (for the use we want to make of it), nor any transformation, ”
recall the three commissioners, Jean-Roch Bouiller, Sophie Kaplan and Anne Langlois.
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Everything exists in nature, the rainbow, the glowing twilight, the miracle of day and night.
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