Special envoy to Lyon.
Life is short. We must therefore hurry to go to Lyon where, precisely, everywhere in the aptly named Palais Saint-Pierre (a former abbey), art reminds us of our ephemeral condition. Sylvie Ramond, director general of the city's art museums pole, has imagined an exhibition on two levels bringing together macabre dances, triumphs of Death and other vanities of yesterday and today. One hundred and sixty paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and installations. All from local collections for the sake of economy. Namely those of the Museum of Fine Arts, those of the Museum of Contemporary Art, plus that of a couple from Lyonnais who have long been friends of these two institutions.
Laudable frugality, especially since such an ensemble is largely rich enough to develop a coherent discourse.
Through a thematic classification, an inventory of all the plastic ways of expressing the fragility and the price of existence, it revives in the visitor the conviction of ...
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