The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici presents a photography exhibition of Éric Poitevin. It starts with black and white portraits of the Religieuses (Nuns) series, created in Rome at the beginning of the 1990's when Poitevin was a scholar at the Villa Medici. The exhibition presented in the great galleries shows the most recent and gigantic masterpieces of the artist, representing landscapes where the eye loses itself, human bodies and animals highlighted by monochromatic backgrounds.
After Philippe Gronon in the Atelier del Bosco in 2010, this exhibition is the second event created in partnership with FOTOGRAFIA 2011, the International photography festival of Rome.
Since about twenty years, Éric Poitevin, born in 1961, has reinvented the different movements of art history through photography: landscape, still life, portrait, and naked painting. He therefore built structures that he creates and continues when he wants to. Working on Human beings, animals or plants, he follows the same logic: underneath the topic from artifices. The absence of expression, the tight frame, diffuse light, and monochrome background contributes to offer the most neutral point of view. Through the choice of its topics (forest, animal, nude body), Eric Poitevin plays with our collective imagination (its fears, fascinations, and desires).
Éric Poitevin, scholar from 1989 to 1990, lives and works in Mangiennes, Meuse. Several personal exhibitions have been devoted to him, especially at the Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau (Paris) in 2004, at the Museum of Hunting and Nature (Paris) in 2007, the Bonnat Museum (Bayonne) in 2008, but also in well-known galleries such as Nelson-Freeman (Paris), Blancpain (Geneva), and Baronian-Francey (Bruxelles).
Thursday 1 December | 19h30 | guided visit by Éric de Chassey, director of the French Academy in Rome
Exceptionally open on Monday 31 October
Thursdays 3, 10 & 17 November | 20H30 | during the late openings
La Primavera araba del cinema, six documentaries of different sizes, under the tutelage of the Tunisian director Hichem Ben Ammar.
Thursday 6 October | 19H30 | guided tour with Marco Delogu
Opening hours
10h45 - 13h | 14h - 19h | on Thursday open until 21h | closed on Monday | the ticket office closes 30 minutes prior to the exhibition.
24 & 31 December 2011: the exhibition closes at 17h30
25, 26 December 2011 & 2 January 2012: closed
1 January 2012: open as usual.
Rates
Including the guided tour of the gardens: 9€ (full) | 7€ (reduced).
Entrance to the exhibition only: 6€ (full) | 4,50€ (reduced) | 3€ up to 25 years. Free for children under 10 years.
How to reach Villa Medici
Underground: A Spagna / Bus: 117-119
After Philippe Gronon in the Atelier del Bosco in 2010, this exhibition is the second event created in partnership with FOTOGRAFIA 2011, the International photography festival of Rome.
Since about twenty years, Éric Poitevin, born in 1961, has reinvented the different movements of art history through photography: landscape, still life, portrait, and naked painting. He therefore built structures that he creates and continues when he wants to. Working on Human beings, animals or plants, he follows the same logic: underneath the topic from artifices. The absence of expression, the tight frame, diffuse light, and monochrome background contributes to offer the most neutral point of view. Through the choice of its topics (forest, animal, nude body), Eric Poitevin plays with our collective imagination (its fears, fascinations, and desires).
Éric Poitevin, scholar from 1989 to 1990, lives and works in Mangiennes, Meuse. Several personal exhibitions have been devoted to him, especially at the Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau (Paris) in 2004, at the Museum of Hunting and Nature (Paris) in 2007, the Bonnat Museum (Bayonne) in 2008, but also in well-known galleries such as Nelson-Freeman (Paris), Blancpain (Geneva), and Baronian-Francey (Bruxelles).
Thursday 1 December | 19h30 | guided visit by Éric de Chassey, director of the French Academy in Rome
Exceptionally open on Monday 31 October
Thursdays 3, 10 & 17 November | 20H30 | during the late openings
La Primavera araba del cinema, six documentaries of different sizes, under the tutelage of the Tunisian director Hichem Ben Ammar.
Thursday 6 October | 19H30 | guided tour with Marco Delogu
Opening hours
10h45 - 13h | 14h - 19h | on Thursday open until 21h | closed on Monday | the ticket office closes 30 minutes prior to the exhibition.
24 & 31 December 2011: the exhibition closes at 17h30
25, 26 December 2011 & 2 January 2012: closed
1 January 2012: open as usual.
Rates
Including the guided tour of the gardens: 9€ (full) | 7€ (reduced).
Entrance to the exhibition only: 6€ (full) | 4,50€ (reduced) | 3€ up to 25 years. Free for children under 10 years.
How to reach Villa Medici
Underground: A Spagna / Bus: 117-119
