Contemporary art exhibition: Passeurs de rêves. Marianne Le Vexier

Name: Exposition d'art contemporain : Les Passeurs de rêves. Marianne Le Vexier
Start: 2024-06-01T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the occasion of the Rendez-vous aux jardins, opening of the contemporary art exhibition in the Museum’s garden:

Samedi 1 juin, 14h00Passé

Marianne Le Vexier

On the occasion of the Rendez-vous aux jardins, opening of the contemporary art exhibition in the Museum’s garden:
Les Passeurs de rêves. Marianne Le Vexier.
The exhibition invites to a dreamlike journey to enter into resonance with the garden so appreciated by the philosopher.
For a few months, Marianne Le Vexier redesigned Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s garden. Melliferous plants surround some sculptures so that his chimerical silhouettes mingle with real bees and butterflies.
Between figuration and abstraction, his works prove to be gateways to the world of dreams. The journey, like a real breadcrumb, guides us through the labyrinth of our own imagination.

À propos du lieu

Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 95160 Montmorency

Val-d'Oise
Île-de-France

In April 1756, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fled Paris, “a city of noise, smoke and mud”, and settled in Montmorency, at the place called “Hermitage”. In December 1757, the Citizen of Geneva moved to Petit Mont-Louis, now the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Museum.
There he composed his major works: Julie or Nouvelle Héloïse, La Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles, Du Contrat Social, Emile or Education.
The condemnation of the Emile caused the philosopher to flee on 9 June 1762.
The Museum consists of the small Mont-Louis, house of the philosopher, the garden including the cabinet of greenery and the «Keep».
An extension of the house made in the 19th century allows to organize temporary exhibitions and cultural events.
Around the Maison du Mont-Louis, which is the museum’s first collection and in which the philosopher lived from 1757 to 1762, there are now a variety of collections containing some 12,000 pieces.
It contains documents related to Rousseau as well as the history of Montmorency and its v

Tags

Maison des illustres, Monument historique, Musée de France & Public garden

Accès

Access by public transport: Gare du Nord, trains to Valmondois or Pontoise. Stop at Enghien-les-Bains. Bus 15, stop Mairie de Montmorency. Or bus 13, stop Rey-de-foresta. Access by car from Paris: By the A1 motorway. Take the exit n°3 towards Saint-Denis, then follow the RN1\. Exit via the D125, direction Montmorency. By the A15 motorway then the D170 (boulevard intercommunal) direction Montmorency then D109 and the D928 direction Montmorency. Parking nearby: rue Vacher, place Roger-Levanneur, rue du Marché.

Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Ville de Montmorency