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PRESS RELEASE Jan Mandijn Saint Christopher Carrying the Child Jesus La Rochelle, musée des Beaux-Arts © Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de La Rochelle, Max Roy The Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts is organizing a major international exhibition entitled « Fables du Paysage Flamand au 16° Siècle, Bosch, Brueghel, Bles, Bril » (« Flemish Landscape Fables in the 16th Century ») from October 6, 2012 to January 14, 2013. This exhibition is preceded by a contemporary presentation on the theme of the Tower of Babel. The marvellous and fabulous characteristics of these landscapes, which still arouse feelings of fascination, awe, or perplexity, will be revealed through a hundred works of art in this exhibition. At the dawn of the Mannerism movement landscapes stand out as the true subject of painting. Figures or Biblical stories were relegated to secondary importance by the desire to show the invisible, in order to produce an impression of infinity. Flemish artists invented a new way of painting, which was both captivating and creative, at the boundary between reality and imagination. Nature became the place for myths and fables. Trees and rocks were given human characteristics, and the strangest creatures were placed alongside men who were conducting their daily occupations. In these hybrid worlds a path for life is drawn for the spectator. The Flemish landscape is a terrestrial framework, which encourages the spectator to engage in thought. It becomes the passageway between physical reality and the spiritual world. These images show where the Christian faith and popular superstitions intertwined, where Beauty and the bizarre met, and where both the marvellous and the monstrous were present. Nature was written in a symbolic language, for which we no longer know all the codes. It carries us into a world which goes beyond our comprehension: cosmic, legendary, and infinite. Created as vast compositions, the paintings in the exhibition “Flemish Landscape Fables of the 16th Century” reproduce the unremitting action of world forces, on a miniature universal scale. Thus the artist’s act of painting participates in the creative process. These works of art are signed by famous masters such as Bosch, Breughel, Met de Bles, Bril, or Patinir, but also by less wellknownbut nonetheless brilliant artists, like Jan Mandijn or Kerstiaen de Keuninck. Their powerful message continues into the modern world, and has never ceased to be meaningful. The exhibition is above and beyond an artistic opportunity. It is essentially the means of understanding the world around us. Works of art coming from the collections of important French museums (Douai, Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Valenciennes…) and international museums (Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Florence, Ghent, London, Madrid, Rome, Rotterdam, Vienna…). 5
MUSEUM AND GALLERY LENDERS Belgium Antwerp Mayer van den Bergh Museum Antwerp Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp Rockoxhuis Bruges Groeningemuseum Brussels Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten Brussels Museum van Buuren Tournai Museum voor Schone Kunsten Kortrijk Stedelijke Musea Kortrijk/Broelmuseum Ghent Museum voor Schone Kunsten Namur Musée des Arts anciens du Namurois Germany Coblence, Mittelrhein-museum Isselburg, Museum Wasserburg anholt Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Kassel, Museumlandschaft hessen Münster, Westfälischen Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum France Dijon Musée des Beaux-Arts Douai Musée de la chartreuse Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts La Rochelle Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts Metz Musée de la cour d’or Paris, Fondation Custodia, Nederlands Instituut Paris Musée du Louvre Paris Musée Jacquemart-André Sermentizon Château d’Aulteribe, Centre des Monuments nationaux Strasbourg Musée des Beaux-Arts Valenciennes Musée des Beaux-Arts Holland Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum’s Leyde, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans - van Beuningen Italy Florence Galleria degli Uffizi Rome Galleria Borghese Rome Galleria Colonna Great Britain London National Gallery London National Maritime Museum Oxford Ashmolean Museum Austria Graz, Alte Galerie des Steiermärkischen Landesmuseum Joanneum Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Gemäldegalerie Spain Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Madrid Museo de Arquitectura y Pintura del Monasterio del Escorial Madrid Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid Musée du Prado Madrid Museo Lazaro Galdiano Switzerland Zürich Kunsthaus And private collections. 6
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Page 8: THE EXHIBITION SECTIONS Introductio
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