Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presents 'Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea'
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Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presents 'Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea'
View of the exhibition Thalassa ! Thalassa ! Imaginery of the sea. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne. Photo : MCBA /Jonas Hänggi.



LAUSANNE.- At the point where art history and the history of culture meet, Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea probes our relationship to the sea as that connection has taken shape in figurative art from the 19th century up to the present. In light of humans’ reworking and reordering of the shoreline, in keeping with the development of navigation and the advances made in geology and zoology, how we see the Ocean and its denizens both real and imaginary has indeed experienced an endless sea change.

Many technical inventions have accompanied these developments and advances, including aquarium, diving bell, the old-style hard-hat diving suit, periscope, undersea vehicle, and on and on. All of these devices—to which we would have to add the microscope, photography, and film—have helped to redefine the visible and the invisible, making our point of view something much more fluid, erasing our bearings, our landmarks, and raising unknown creatures from the deep. How have artists incorporated or anticipated the series of upheavals that have redrawn the mental grid humans use to comprehend an immense watery territory that extends from beaches to the ocean depths?

The layout of the show offers visitors a narrative. They will discover how a collective desire to preserve the mystery and beauty of the sea is anchored in an emotional and aesthetic relationship to the natural world, one that has taken shape in a story and a history that have been told in images. On the museum’s first floor and continuing on the second, three themes are developed in turn, the shore, the deep, and the abyss. Taking shape in the 19th century, these themes, however much dramatized, reappropriated, even deconstructed, remain no less identifiable in contemporary art. Today when we are increasingly aware of the role we humans play in degrading ecosystems, when maritime borders are causing a number of conflicts, they form a theatre of questions that are proving absolutely relevant to our day and age.

The show features works by a wealth of artists, including Arnold Böcklin, François Bocion, Edward Burne-Jones, Jean-Francis Auburtin, Albert Marquet, Maurice Pillard-Verneuil, Jean Painlevé, Max Ernst, Marcel Broodthaers, Ad van Denderen, Lubaina Himid, Caroline Bachmann et Stefan Banz, François Burland, Miriam Cahn, Sandrine Pelletier, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim.

Curated by: Catherine Lepdor, Chief Curator, MCBA, and Danielle Chaperon, Professor of French literature, University of Lausanne










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