15 Dec 2024
20 Apr 2025

NOTHING TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THE GODS

LA FONDATION OPALE LENS - CRANS MONTANA - SUISSE

From December 15, 2024 to April 20, 2025, Fondation Opale (Lens/Crans-Montana)presents its new exhibition NOTHING TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THE GODS, carte blanche to French curator Jean-Hubert Martin. Delving into the richness and extravagant diversity of the artistic expression of human spirituality, NOTHING TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THE GODS unfolds in three steps with more than 60 works. It begins with altars from cultures around the world, at the crossroads of sacred architecture and ceremonial objects, here reconstituted in a museum context. They are followed by artists, often marginalised, born in the first half of the 20th century, who refer directly to their beliefs and claim this dual affiliation with religion and modern art, or even the avant-garde. Following in their footsteps is a new generation of artists freed from their complexes regarding colonisation, who are campaigning for the recognition of their cultures, particularly indigenous ones, and the enhancement of religious aspects, whether dogmatic, shamanic or animist.

Kazuo Shiraga, Sans titre,1987
Christian Boltanski, Autel Chases (1987)
Narritjin Maymuru, Sans titre (Djarrakpi), (c. 2002)
Younès Rahmoun, Tâqiya-Nôr (Bonnet-Lumière), 2016
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, 2010
Hervé Youmbi, Tso Scream Leopard Mask, 2022,
Cyprien Tokoudagba,Sans titre, 1992
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Fondation Opale
Route de Crans 1CH - 1978 Lens, Suisse
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JEAN-HUBERT MARTIN
TIJS VISSER
GEORGES PETITJEAN

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