Guided tour retracing the evolution of the representation of icons

Name: Exposition "Icônes, les images fantasmées" en visite libre
Start: 2024-09-21T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Image

European Heritage Days 2024

21 et 22 septembrePassé

©musée de l'image

The term «icon», originally referring to an image venerated by the Orthodox Church, has long passed from the religious sphere to the secular world: some historical figures have been able to reach the rank of icons, before the world of entertainment took their place in the pantheon of images.
But how to define an icon? What connects Christ to Che, Joan of Arc to Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon to Diego Maradona? How does one become an icon?
Through a selection of 150 pieces gathering popular images, photographs, magazines and illustrated newspapers and other products, this exhibition retraces the evolution of the representation of icons through the ages under the prism of great figures, religious, military, artistic or sporting.
Around this exhibition, the museum team welcomes you all weekend with free admission.
On the program: guided tours and typographic workshops led by Papier Gachette (Strasbourg).

À propos du lieu

Musée de l'Image

42 quai de Dogneville, 88000 Épinal

Vosges
Grand Est

The City(Estate) of Image groups(includes) the famous Imaging of Epinal, premises(places) of the old(former) Imaging Pellerin, and the Museum of Image. The building(ship) of the Museum of the Image, in contemporary, very glassy architecture, was inaugurated in 2003\. He(It) frames(supervises) the buildings(ships) of Imaging. A creation of the artist Cyril Dominger illustrates the facade of the Museum mixing(involving) with time idealised images and images of others centres print-sellers of France. The Museum of Image shelters one of the most important collections of popular images printed for the 18th century in France (Épinal, Orléans, Chartres, Paris) and abroad (Germany, India or Japan). All in all, and since the purchase of 85 000 images of the collection Henry George in 2010, the museum gathers(combines) more than 110 000 images. The site proposes more than 700 m ² of spaces of exhibition(exposure): four exhibition halls, a space child. They find there also a Documentation Centre the fund(collection) of which concentrates as well on popular imaging as on art, without forgetting the numerous themes tackled(approached) on images (religion, militaria, tales, theatre, etc.), a room devoted to workshops(studios) and an IT park the put in arrangement(disposal) during internships(training courses).