Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Paris
from November 10, 2024 to May 5, 2025
EDI DUBIEN
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
Installed in two magnificent former Parisian mansions, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is dedicating a monographic exhibition to the French artist Edi Dubien.
Surrounded by permanent collections combining paintings, tapestries, tro phies, armor, photographs and videos with stuffed animals, this temporary exhibition contributes to enriching the relationships between man and animal.
Born in 1963, Edi Dubien presents here more than 200 paintings, sculptures and installations, often unpublished, created especially for this event. In his melancholic works, the artist uses fauna and flora to stage the child or adult reduced to silence by a society whose violence complicates relationships and thereby the expression of their identity.
This true dialogue between man and child aims to achieve recognition of the other in his difference to express the freedom to be oneself.
The artist stages childhood in all its fragility in the face of the expression of its identity and its intimacy with nature.
His models often come from old photographs found in flea markets and are not necessarily autobiographical.
Flora and fauna have a healing power, they treat these young beings from the violence and injustice of the world by offering them a silent interlude in a universe of gentleness and mutual understanding.
Human fragility and the vulnerability of the child are helped by the purity and delicacy of a deep connection with the universe of emotions and nature.
This rich, intimate exhibition must be savored, visited slowly and respectfully in order to let oneself be penetrated by the beating of one’s heart in a held breath to understand all the peaceful warmth of a hunt for feelings.
EDI DUBIEN
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
- Paris -
du 10 novembre 2024 au 5 mai 2025 -
www.chassenature.org
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris
©Edi Dubien, 2024 – ADAGP, Paris