Icons at Maison particulière

The new exhibit of Maison Particulière
From April 23 to July 5 
Open from Tuesday to Sunday between 11 am and 6 pm 
Entrance Fee: 10,00€ (Free for students -26)

De l’image sainte au signe visuel, de l’image sacrée au symbole, le 14ème accrochage de Maison Particulière interroge aussi bien les significations mentales que les figures emblématiques des icônes.Le duo d’artistes convié, Pierre et Gilles, a volontairement et spontanément choisi le mélange des genres « que l’on retrouve dans la culture populaire indienne ».Pour faire écho aux œuvres de Pierre et Gilles, quatre couples de collectionneurs avec des œuvres choisies, par eux : Myriam et Amaury de Solages, Charlotte et André Querton, Cookie et Cédric Liénart de Jeude, Béatrice et Philippe le Hodey et Jean-Claude Simoën.

From ‘icône’ in French to ‘icon’ in English, from holy image to visual sign, from the sacred and venerated image to the symbol, this fourteenth exhibit at Maison Particulière explores both the intellectual significance and the emblematic figures of icons.

These icons are an endless source of inspiration for contemporary artists, who reinterpret and reclaim them to create new images, new icons – while being iconoclastic.

As such, the emblematic artistic duo Pierre et Gilles, whose work finds inspiration in the imaginary of their personal fantasies, while echoing ours, regardless of the era, flawlessly symbolizes Icon(s). The works they have personally chosen for this art exhibition embrace the last twenty years, giving the public a wide overview of their many talents.

Maison Particulière also invited four couples of art collectors who are passionate about ancient and religious art, as well as contemporary art and comics.
It is a rare opportunity to see such diverse artworks exhibited together, to provoke surprising dialogues and to link pieces depicting and/or dealing with the religious icons, the heroes of the Antiquity with those of our times.

Last but not least, we welcome special guests Paul Evans, Ettore Sottsass, Pierre Cardin... whose work was selected by Yves and Victor Gastou to accompany Icon(s). Their furniture designs bring together decorative and visual arts as well as ancient and contemporary arts. They show us, once again, that there are no such things as borders when it comes to creativity.

With artworks by Carlos Aires; Alfonso Alzamora; Nobuyoshi Araki; Jean-Baptiste Bernadet; Pierre Bismuth; Blek le rat; Claude-Victor Boeltz; Cris Brodahl; Sophie Calle; Pierre Cardin; Caspicara; Jota Castro; Pieter Coecke Van Aelst; Didier Comès; Anne-Lise Coste; Etienne Courtois; Wim Delvoye; Braco Dimitrijevic; Paul Evans; Stelios Faitakis; Jean-Claude Farhi; Alekos Fassianos; Hans-Peter Feldmann; Sylvie Fleury; Claire Fontaine; André Franquin; Kendell Geers; Gilbert & George; Annie Goetzinger; Douglas Gordon; Jean-Paul Goude; Marc Hardy; Hergé; Hermann; Thomas Hirschhorn; Hokusai; Georges Jeanclos; Farid Saleem Kamboh; Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Ivan Loubennikov; Milo Manara; Jacques Martin; Kris Martin; MiTacq; Iván Navarro; Nat Neujean; Xavier Noiret-Thomé; Claudio Parmiggiani; Pierre et Gilles; Gustavo Riego; Matthieu Ronsse; Stephen Sack; Fabrice Samyn; George Segal; José María Sicilia; Jeanloup Sieff; Santiago Sierra; Rik Smits; Ettore Sottsass; Mari Sunna; William Vance; Erwin Wurm