French Vision

Most cultures depict opposing forces that compete for the world in a necessary struggle without end. Theogonies, myths and festivals organise the understanding and continuation of the struggle of these great cosmic principles.
The exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris places the spotlight on the figureheads of disorder such as gods and spirits like Dionysus, Seth Typhon, the Pale Fox, Exu and so on.

The exhibition presents the characteristics of these spirits’ allies (intercessors), the persistent attempts at conjuration, or use of such forces in our secular societies.

From Wednesday, April 11 2012 to Sunday, July 29 2012

Quai Branly Museum – Musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris

Since the sixteenth century, Patagonia has arroused a multiplicity of representations mixing fantasy and reality.

The exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris presents the first representations of this territory, the myth of Patagonian giants, stories and many images associated with the southern tip of the Americas. The exhibition illustrates this back and forth between reality and fiction, through maps, engravings, photographs, literary texts and travelogues.

From Tuesday, March 6 2012 to Sunday, May 13 2012

Address

Quai Branly Museum – Musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris

Access:
Metro: 9,8,6

RER C: Station Pont de l’Alma, Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel