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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Born in 1963, Edi Dubien presents here more than 200 paintings, sculptures and installations, often unpublished, created especially for this event.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.