From the nine millennia of history and art covered by the collections of the Louvre Museum, from the confines of the Indus to the Andes mountain range, from all the materials used there, Grégory Quenet was inspired to resonate differently the common issues of ecology. By bringing to life the worlds of five of the works on display, he attempts to open new avenues, at the heart of the museum, to think about our relationship to the environment - and first of all to ourselves.
In "an afternoon at the Louvre", the passage from the interior to the exterior, the action on the environment in Mesopotamia, the metaphysical landscapes, the animals of Brazil, climate change, take shape in the spaces and the collections of the Louvre, bringing together human experiences from thirty centuries. By taking into consideration the "environments of the work of art", in the words of Grégory Quenet, it is ours that we can then discover.
Laurence des Cars, President and Director of the Louvre Museum
French
176 pages / 39 color illustrations / 5 black and white illustrations
Co-publishing Éditions Macula / Louvre éditions
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