Exhibition overview
The exhibition Comme un oiseau looks at man’s fascination with birds. Inviting to contemplation, the exhibition explores the original relation a civilization, culture, or artists entertains with the world of birds, from man’s earliest art to contemporary art, taking in along the way western art-works since the 17th century on.
The views of the ethnographer, ornithologist, poet, philosopher and artist together invite us to see birds as a way of exercising our gaze, our thoughts and our imagination.
Artists and contributors of the exhibition:
- Vito Acconci,
- Gilles Aillaud,
- Jean-Jacques Audubon,
- John Baldessari,
- Jacques Barraband,
- Robert Barry,
- Georg Baselitz,
- Jean-Michel Basquiat,
- Lothar Baumgarten,
- Pierre Belon,
- Louise Bourgeois,
- Constantin Brancusi,
- Jan Bruegel,
- Frédéric Bruly Bouabré,
- Georges Leclerc de Buffon,
- Balthasar Burkhard,
- Alexander Calder,
- Henri Cartier-Bresson,
- César,
- Chaval,
- Francesco Clemente,
- Matt Collishaw,
- Joseph Cornell,
- Merce Cunningham,
- Edward Sheriff Curtis,
- Jean-François Dejonghe,
- Alexandre-François Desportes,
- Walt Disney,
- Max Ernst,
- Robert Frank,
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
- Nancy Graves,
- Raymond Hains,
- David Hammons,
- Carsten Höller,
- Rebecca Horn,
- Fabrice Hyber,
- Johanasie Illauq,
- Jan Van Kessel,
- Paul Klee,
- Louise Lawler,
- Claude Lévi-Strauss,
- René Magritte,
- Étienne-Jules Marey,
- Annette Messager,
- Joan Miró,
- Ernst Norlind,
- Gabriel Orozco,
- Panamarenko,
- Francis Picabia,
- Jean-Pierre Raynaud,
- Martial Raysse,
- Nicolas Robert,
- Auguste Rodin,
- Graham Sutherland,
- Jean Tinguely,
- Édouard Traviès,
- Joseph M. W. Turner,
- Nicolas Vleughels,
- Johann Walther,
- William Wegman,
- Christopher Williams,
- Ossip Zadkine,
- Aloys Zötl
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