Dominique Gonzales-Foerster - Exhibition Catalogue (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)2015

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058 displays an 'open' timeline from 1887 to 2058, and extends the idea of the retrospective by combining different centuries and climates. The exhibition begins in the late 19th century; journeys through the experiments of the 20th century, and projects viewers into landscapes and interiors in turn desert - like or tropical, biographical or dystopian. This combination of parallel realities and stage sets - where the genres of landscape, portrait and period rooms co-exist - becomes a fictional house with numerous entrances, constructed so that viewers experience the sensations of outdoor and indoor, ideas of identity and fiction, the present moment and a journey through time. Sometimes stage, sometimes playground and sometimes introspective narratives,...