UNDER THE GAZE OF MEDUSA

From ancient Greece to digital arts

The Museum of Fine Arts Caen

May 13, 2023 - September 17, 2023

CAEN, FRANCE-

An essential figure in Greek mythology, Medusa has exercised her power of fascination over many generations of artists who have contributed to the creation of a repertoire of images of incredible richness. Commonly recognizable by her hair swarming with snakes and her wide eyes, the figure of Medusa has never ceased to be renewed through the ages. The exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen is devoted to the evolution of these representations, from the first iconographic sources of Antiquity to the most recent artistic productions.

The route brings together sixty-five works kept in French and international collections, produced by the greatest artists. From Crésilas, sculptor of Greek Antiquity, to current artists: Benvenuto Cellini, Sandro Botticelli, Pierre Paul Rubens, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Adèle d'Affry, Jean-Marc Nattier, Theodor van Thulden, Maxmilián Pirner, Franz von Stuck , Edward Burne-Jones, Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Luciano Garbati, Laetitia Ky, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster... The exhibition embraces the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, decorative arts, cinema and video games. These multiple insights feed a rich, paradoxical and updated vision of this fascinating figure, several thousand years old.

https://mba.caen.fr/exposition/sous-le-regard-de-meduse