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From March to December 2019
"Je suis né étranger, j’ai vécu étranger et je mourrai plus étranger encore" writes the French-Lebanese author Amin Maalouf (The Journey of Baldassare). These words inspire the title of the program of exhibitions of contemporary art, realized by les Abattoirs, Museum - Frac Occitanie Toulouse in the Occitan Region on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Retirada.
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Through 30 august 2019
Hôpital Joseph Ducuing
The exhibition Verso vi presents photographs of the Spanish artist Esther Ferrer, born during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and who grew up under Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975). Using his own body in his performances and his photographs, his libertarian and committed posture echoes a whole generation. Read more
Through 31 august 2019
Château d’Assier (46)
This contemporary exhibition tackles the question of exile in its actuality, carried by artists evoking the departure and its risks in a dreamlike way, echoing the epic story of the life of Galiot de Genouillac, master of the artillery from 1512 , punctuated by trips from the Italian peninsula to the Mediterranean islands. Read more
Through 1 september 2019
Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou, Cajarc (46)
"Lo(s)t In Transition(s)!" - parcours d’art contemporain en vallée du Lot - takes the form of an artistic and architectural investigation exploring the imaginary of the transition in the ecosystem of the valley. Read more
Through 13 september 2019
Mairie d'Ayguevives
D’une rive à l’autre, there are perilous journeys. This exhibition is the occasion of a crossing between the various worlds of the artists presented, between psychedelic aquatic motifs of Maya Rochat (1985, Switzerland) and strangeness of the underwater movements of the work of Marie Losier (1972, France). Read more
Through 22 september 2019
Musée Cévenol - Château d’Assas, Le Vigan (30)
Echoing the issues of heritage, conservation, preservation and updating of traditional art and objects, the exhibition Que reste-t-il ? brings together three artists, Daniel Andújar (1966, Spain) at the Cévenol Museum, Paula Anke (1961, Germany) and Taus Makhacheva (1983, Russia) at Château d'Assas. They question, with humor and poetry, what we keep and why. Read more
Through 22 september 2019
Maison du port, La Redorte (11)
In the center of Occitanie, between the Montagne Noire and the Corbières, is the village of La Redorte. At the edge of the Canal du Midi, in the intimacy of the Maison du Port, Enrique Ramírez (1979, Chile) presents his photographs and his films. The sea is a major element in her works, she is both the setting and the context. Read more
Through 22 september 2019
Galeries Drawinternational 1 & 2, Château de Caylus, Caylus (82)
Opening on Saturday, June 29 at 6pm
The artists presented in Odyssées articulate singular stories with the collective history. Their plastic and visual work, based on language, asks: who speaks, who writes the stories? Read more
Through 30 september 2019
Different shops in Rodez (12)
To celebrate the 100 years of Pierre Soulages, Rodez Agglomeration wishes to honor the Ruthenian painter through a vast cultural program. Les Abattoirs join this program by presenting works in some shops in Rodez. Read more
Through 13 october 2019
Office de tourisme des Deux Rives, Auvillar (82)
The monumental work Sweet, Light, Crude by artist Jimmie Durham (1940, USA), an installation composed of colored barrels, offers another poetic and critical look at the movements in a globalized world. Read more
Through 19 october 2019
Public Garden, Marvejols (48)
The exhibition En plaza of mi pueblo, title taken from a Spanish republican song, invests the municipal garden of Marvejols during several months. Conceived by the artist Raphaël Barontini (1984, France), this intervention in the public space takes the form of a surreal narrative fresco. Read more
Through 20 october 2019
Hôtellerie Sainte-Foy, Moissac (82)
The human voice, spoken or sung, which makes distant memories present, is at the heart of the artists' work. The relationship that memory has with music is also evoked by records of songs and music from exile that include the exhibition as heritage objects. Read more
Through 11 november 2019
Palais des Évêques, Saint-Lizier
The roads of exile are numerous on the cross-border territory of the country Couserans; the internment camp at Vernet, where 40,000 people stayed between 1939 and 1944, marked the history of the territory. Echoing this, the Palais des Evêques - musée départemental hosts this collective exhibition, designed as a stroll on the paths of memory of the Retirada and all the exiles of the world. Read more
Through 30 november 2019
Musée de Cerdagne, Sainte-Léocadie (66)
Serge Pey, artist and poet from Toulouse (1950, France) presents his new series of poster designs at the Musée de Cerdagne. Born from the Spanish republican exile, Serge Pey, whose libertarian adolescence was crossed by the antifranquiste struggle, pays homage here to the land of his ancestors in a Pyrenean place marked by cross-border geopolitics, like a return to the sources.
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Through 5 january 2020
Le Réservoir, Revel (31)
Le Reservoir, dedicated to the work of the canal and the figure of its creator Pierre-Paul Riquet, dedicates an exhibition to the memory of the old boatmen of the Canal des Deux-Mers linking the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Read more