TRAVELER’S DIARY: L’envol at Maison Rouge, Part I

The dream of flying is as old as mankind, but men are not birds. Through the exhibition “L’envol” Maison Rouge offers the visitor a journey to dream and flying in the sky. The exhibition moves around the contemporary art fiction, taking as a starting point the Daedalus Myth and the risk arising from flying. Daedalus’ efforts and his desire to overcome human boundaries and to fly freely, like a bird in the sky are the occasion to reconsider works and artists with corresponding desires. From myth to reality, the sky was always a dangerous playground for humanity. This absolutely charming journey with risk, mystery, desire and danger is invited the audience to realize through the works of 130 artists. Through paintings, photos, videos, sculptures, installations and performance , as they endeavour to challenge the laws of gravity, break free of Earth’s magnetic field, launch themselves into the unknown. Like shamans, accustomed to travelling between worlds, converse with spirits and collect information while improbable creatures, they shut themselves away in their own worlds, all the better to escape to another place, experience the extraordinary and relive childhood fantasies, but with adult toys. Like Panamarenko works that are beautiful machines, created by the engineer of the impossible and of no purpose whatsoever – except for the dreams they inspire. Yves Klein, Panamarenko, Kiki Smith, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Cai Guo-Qiang, Rebecca Horn, Fabio Mauri, are some of the best-known names that artwork by artwork are offering us a flight in the sky and beyond (Part II), (Part III).–Efi Michalarou

Info: Curators: Antoine de Galbert, Bruno Decharme, Aline Vidal and Barbara Safarova, La Maison Rouge, 10 boulevardd de la Bastille, Paris, Duration: 16/6-28/10/18, Days & Hours: Wed & Fri-Sun 11:00-19”00, Thu 11:00-21:00, http://lamaisonrouge.org