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« Gauguin the alchemist » plunges us to the heart of his passion by revealing the modernity of a creative and innovative process in his incredible ability to constantly push the limits of each medium.
An unavoidable artist of the 20th century, Gauguin has gone through rough seas literally and figuratively.
From Brittany to Martinique and then to the Marquesas, he dreamed nature to create it by staging his «terrible self», the suffering that made him so wild.
He followed in turn the traces of Pissarro on the paths of Impressio- nism and then lived a time with Van Gogh in the south of France. But the depressive pain of these two titans brought them as close as it sepa- rated them, each of these two sunflowers couldn’t support the shadow of the other in front of his sun.
Gauguin has reinvented myths and objects to immerse himself in an ever more intense way in his recurring theme of «inhabited» nature. His « Maison du Jouir » will complete his quest for a primitive golden age.This ultimate hut of Hiva Oa has been beautifully represented as a hologram and presents for the first time in an exhibition the sculptures that adorned its entrance. Gauguin went into the abyss to give rise to allegories, troubled receptacles of his inner states with an obsession for decorative research.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
The White Horse
1898
oil on canvas ; 140.5 x 92 cm
Paris, Orsay Museum
© Rmn-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski
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