As a part of their “an artist, a monument” program, the Centre of Nationwide Monuments invitations Raphaël Barontini for a carte blanche on the Pantheon, simply reverse the Resort des Grands Hommes and Resort les Dames du Panthéon.
Barontini has created a large-format set up with flags, banners and cloth-based items composing a historic fresco evoking each the transatlantic slave commerce and people ladies and men who fought to have slavery abolished.
The primary a part of the set up is a line of big banners that includes stylised portraits of historic figures who fought for emancipation and the abolition of slavery.
Subsequent, within the monument’s north and south transepts, you’ll discover collages telling the darkish story of human trafficking and its abolition.
It’s the primary time that the artist has created such numerous impressively-sized items.
To launch the exhibition, a efficiency in two acts will probably be held within the Pantheon on twenty second October at 4.30pm, beginning with a musical piece by American rapper Mike Ladd, adopted by a collective procession by Mas Choukaj, a gaggle of carnaval musicians from the Antilles, primarily based within the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, the place Barontini grew up.
The costumes have been designed and created in collaboration with styling and textile college students from the Duperré College of Utilized Artwork.
November will see the discharge of a booklet to accompany the exhibition (10€), together with nulerous images, a textual content by author Patrick Chamoiseau and an interview with Barontini by Barbara Wolffer, who’s in control of the monument.
Additionally coming to the Pantheon in November (on the ninth), is a second exhibition referred to as Dare freedoms. Figures of the battle towards slavery – exploring the seemingly infinite battle towards slavery by the ages and throughout the continents.
UN EVENEMENT : du 09/11/2023 au 11/02/2024 au Panthéon, “Oser la Liberté – Figures des combats contre l’esclavage”, la 1ère exposition co-produite par la FME, avec @leCMN. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/EvmeQ7ijAA
— Fondation pour la mémoire de l’esclavage (@fondation_me) October 18, 2023
The exhibition We Might Be Heroes bby Raphaël Barontini is on the Pantheon (right here) till eleventh February 2024
Open day by day from 10am-6pm. Closed twenty fifth December
Admission (monument and exhibition): 11.50€
On-line ticket gross sales right here
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