Aventure de lignes

In Aventure de lignes, a poem inspired by a painting by Paul Klee and featured in the second edition of Passages (1963), Henri Michaux describes the trajectory and “melody” of the composite lines forming on the canvas. According to him, their beauty lies in their transitory, ephemeral nature, in the ‘passage’ revealed by movement, thus constituting ‘a new kind of architecture that can only be filmed’.

This exhibition at the Villa Cavrois celebrates the line in its many drawn forms, inviting for the first time masterful contemporary works from the Frac Picardie collection to take over this place inhabited by past, present and future memories. An adventure in lines is an invitation to explore Villa Cavrois, discovering the artistic influences that underline Mallet-Stevens’ design and drawings as you wander through the space.

Conceptual, minimalist, dreamlike and poetic lines will be the subject of this conversation between the drawings of artists from different generations and backgrounds and the emblematic architectural style of Robert Mallet-Stevens. ‘As soon as I write, I begin to invent,’ Henri Michaux liked to say. This total work of art to which Robert Mallet-Stevens devoted himself is a wonderful setting in which to discover exceptional works that act as contemporary echoes and reflections of this architectural approach, a veritable musical score in which the smallest detail serves as a manifesto. From line to line, space to space, punctuation mark to punctuation mark, it is the spirit of the place that this exhibition celebrates today as part of lille3000.

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With the Frac Picardie

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