Au bois Génie

Partners for three years now, les Abattoirs Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse and the Musée des Mégalithes are joining this year's adventure of Imaginary Tourism around its Panoramic* programme (an experimental forestry project on the Cors forest estate which will run from 23 July to 1 August 2021). Conceived as an effervescence of this cultural circuit, this exhibition plunges us into the mysteries of the woodland geniuses who have so inspired artists such as Georges Sand in Histoire de ma vie: "I was not yet strong-minded enough not to hope sometimes to surprise the napes and dryads in the woods and in the meadows.

A support for reverie or contemplation but also a place of myths, cults and phantasmagoria, the forest inspires, enchants, intrigues or repels. These deep glades and dark woods are home to many spirits and untamed prophetic genies that have inspired the history of art since its origins.
This contemporary artistic panorama invites us to take a nocturnal walk from sunset to dusk through the work of these artists who plunge us into the dark depths of our forests and our souls at the same time.
Let us guide you on this path that will lead you to these new geniuses of the woods that are the artists. Welcome to "Au Bois Génie".