Special envoy to Geneva
Deafening noise when you enter the wise Museum of Art and History (MAH) of Geneva where collections of scholars lie dormant: coins, armor, musical instruments, old masters.
Where silence is usually required, where stillness is essential, Wim Delvoye blows a wind of madness which shakes up all the museum rules and upsets the gaze without any more regard for the peace of the visitor.
A giant game of marbles, the English-speaking
marble run
, which has its fan clubs all over the world, invades the walls of the historic rooms with its infinite circuit.
He speeds through the windows and works, the fake Picassos and the fake Warhols, but also the authentic panels decorated with a
Missionary Saint
(undated), the carved wood of a
Putto with miter
(around 1750) and a
Saint Francis Xavier, apostle of India and Japan
(around 1700), even the portrait of a bearded man (anonymous author, undated oil on canvas), four works from the personal collection…
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