The Biennial event of Issy is an event(demonstration) of contemporary art renewed in 1995. It joins at the heart of a politics(policy) of contemporary culture supported by the City.
61 artists invest(surround) the rooms of the French Museum of the Card of Issy-les-Moulineaux around themes "contemporary Portraits: selfies of the soul?", inspired by a comment of Oscar Wilde regarding the Portrait of Dorian Gray: «I put too much myself, in here.» Exhibition(Exposure) also spreads(broadcasts) in the city off the record with works exposed(explained) in media libraries, the Training school of the Bars of the Court of Appeal of Paris and square of the city council of Issy. Carrying a realistic or poetic look on world, the artists of the Biennial event of Issy deliver their vision of the human being without indulgence(complacency), with lucidity, certain gravity or note(mark) of humor. Taking over with creativeness of kind(genre), without neglecting the tradition of the portrait in the course of the long history(story) of the painting(paint) in which the seriousness takes it on smile, the contemporary artists express themselves with complete freedom. With the traditional mediums or the creative potential offered by the digital technology, they raise(draw up) – in photography, painting(paint), sculpture, drawing or video – the portrait of the company(society) and its evolutions, the best in the worst. Some carry a message, others stop on beauty or representation of strengths and of human weaknesses, all agree to illustrate mystery to be in world.