“Hyper sensitive” exhibition in Nantes: when “hyper” reality goes beyond fiction

The Musée d'arts de Nantes prides itself on being the only public collection to keep a sculpture by the pioneer of hyperrealism, the American Duane Hanson.

It therefore has every right to propose a large-scale exhibition of this movement, born in the United States in the 1960s, in the wake of pop art in order to thwart the dominant abstraction.

It should be noted that hyperrealism has experienced a new boom in the Western world since the end of the 20th century.

The Maillol Museum also presented at the beginning of the season

, with about fifty works.

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Here is "Hyper sensible", a look at hyperrealist sculpture, which shows a set of thirty works by ten sculptors.

There are the historical like Duane Hanson, therefore, John DeAndrea, and the next generation like Gilles Barbier, Berlinde De Bruyckere or Daniel Firman.

This figurative art, placing the human being at the heart of its approach, always surprises the visitor.

The double of the sculpted figure is a vector of identification or rejection, of fascination or discomfort.

The route of the exhibition is done in three stages: "True with fake" shows the precision, the mimicry of hyperrealist artists through attitudes and gestures.

“Body, fictions, mirrors” insists on the fictional dimension of these works which approach the different cycles of life.

"The paradox of

invisible” reveals states of introspection such as expectation, daydreaming, or emotional states such as sadness or pleasure.

An infinitely sensitive art of portraiture.

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