Take advantage of these JEP 2023 to visit our temporary exhibition "Rouge Stephen King, Vert Véronèse Bleu Maggie Nelson , exhibition that will end this weekend. An explosion of colours, stories and images! How does the eye perceive colour? Additive syntheses, subtractive, wefts, painting, pigments: next to a return on the formation of these colors, their social and political roles, let’s explore the worlds of three artists to give an aesthetic and emotional light to the whole: Stephen King, Veronese and Maggie Nelson.
The Rouge is an exhibition of King’s various passions for writing, crime and fantasy literature, as well as films adapted from his works. From Shining to Dead Zone, his cult books, very autobiographical, give pride of place to his fears and his childhood joys, much more than we imagine. They resonate with creations and symbols related to the color red, such as the rose, Soviet posters or the LEGO logo.
Veronese Green is the name attributed to a specific shade of color, which pushes to make the link with the use of green in the paintings of the Italian master of the sixteenth century. A dozen of the painter’s works are then presented, printed in large format for the occasion, putting side by side subjects crossing all the complexity of the perceptions of the green, such as the dragons, the video game Zelda or the green screen in the cinema.
Finally, the author and poet Maggie Nelson composed the book Bleuets (2009) from the different forms of the obsession she contracted for the color blue following a break in love. His text is confronted, divided into fragments, with fifty «blue» images from our collections, the history of art and pop culture, to pay tribute to this book, a true ode to melancholy and resilience.