« What we cannot talk about, we must keep silent, » wrote Wittgenstein.
How was the transformation into art expressed in 1968 and through which means of expression? Cacophony or silence? Has the mutation precipitated the end of painting in favour of other forms of expression?
Through major figures of Minimal Art, Pop Art and Conceptual Art, 1968. SPARTE RÊVE D’ATHÈNES tries to propose an answer to this question. It takes place over three months on the top floor of the museum and brings together works by leading artists from the late 1960s to the present day: Claes Oldenburg, Maria Marshall, Bernar Venet and many others. Immersed in the unexpected landscape of the Château de Montsoreau-Musée d’art contemporain, works of art that have profoundly changed art history create a journey between memory, reverie and utopia. 1968. SPARTE RÊVE D’ATHÈNES tries to take stock of the painting crisis at the end of the 1960s. Has the resistance/rebellion against the established model given rise to a new contemporary language?
Art & Language / Victor Burgin / Dan Graham / Les Levine / Maria Marshall / Edward Rusha / Tony Smith / Bernar Venet