Marguerite Yourcenar

This season, Maud Hagelstein, art philosopher and researcher at FNRS/​ULiège, brings you on a journey through literature to search for stories about art. 

In ​“The Dark Brain of Piranesi”, Marguerite Yourcenar gazes - with a magnifying glass in hand - at the engravings of the greatest ​“ruinist” of the 18^th century. Fascinated by the engraver’s hal­lu­ci­nat­ed sketches, she recon­structs the imaginary tragedy that plays out in them, and the phan­tas­magor­i­cal universe of the roman ruins. Yourcenar finds precise words to describe the rela­tion­ship between Piranesi and the stones, the great shattered rhythm of the landscapes that he sketches, the medley of violence and quiet that dwells in his drawings. She takes a close look, a closer look, the closest look, and makes common cause with the artist to make the viewer see what they have never seen before. 

SUN. 09.02.2020
14:30 > 16:00

Fee (entrance to the museum and tea time included)
Adults: € 10 Seniors, students and teachers: € 6
- 12 years old: € 4
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