Exhibition: War in the Gulf

Contemporary Art Exhibition

3 April > 31 August 2008

Free Admission

What do we show of war?
The exhibition “War in the Gulf” by Michel LeBrun-Franzaroli weaves a reflection upon journalistic images by reproducing television images of the First Gulf War (1991) on Iranian rugs or carpet. How are they deformed, and how do we take them in and interpret them? 

The Great War was the period during which “the image of war” was born. It was the first modern war in which media coverage was able to reach a large audience, but which yielded images that were very far from the reality of the front, a reality that would have been too difficult to portray directly. Likewise, during the First Gulf War, audiences saw very little of the true nature of the war’s destructiveness.

© Michel LeBrun Franzaroli – Courtesy Galerie Griesmar & Tamer

 

Michel LeBrun-Franzaroli

Like the permanent collections of the Historial, this contemporary artwork offers a series of reflections about the representations of war, and about life during a time of war. By having created the archetypes for the portrayal of war in moving images, the First World War again proves itself to have been a model pattern for the twentieth century. For this exhibition, the artist creates a new installation to evoke the connection between the First World War and the First Gulf War.


Bilingual exhibition: English & French

Catalogue of the exhibition (in French) available at the museum: 48 pages, 30 illustrations (13 €)

© Michel LeBrun Franzaroli – Courtesy Galerie Griesmar & Tamer